The Sangiuliano-Boccia affair has overwhelmed the political (and media) agenda in the last week, leading Giorgia Meloni to the decision that can no longer be postponed to “fire” the Minister of Culture to put an end to the tsunami of increasingly embarrassing revelations not only for him, but for the government as a whole. Yet, according to the first opinion polls, the affair does not seem to have had much impact on the popularity of the majority parties. The weekly SWG survey for La7, carried out on a sample of 1,200 subjects between September 4 and 9 – therefore in the hot days of the scandal – gives a picture of voting intentions almost identical to that of seven days ago. Fratelli d'Italia remains firmly the country's leading party with an estimated consensus of over 30%, La Lega and Forza Italia still hover above 8%: minimal changes in opinion for the three main government parties.
Avs and Italia Viva smile
However, the weekly thermometer seems to leave some hope of recovery to the fractured opposing team. All the main parties of the vast futuristic field obtain a consensus, with the exception of the 5 Star Movement. The Democratic Party jumps by two decimal places and follows (by far) the FdI with 22.5% of the “virtual” votes. A significant jump compared to their specific weight for the Greens and the Left Alliance, which with a dynamic of +0.3% exceeds the 7% mark, but also for the centrists of Italia Viva, which for a few weeks Matteo Renzi would like to return structurally to the center-left camp. The party of the former prime minister remains however far behind Action (2.6 against 3.2%), while Conte's Movement drops a minimum of one decimal place, still arriving in third place but with half the votes of the Democratic Party (11.5%).
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