Rome, Sep 25 (EFE).- Italians headed to polls on Sunday to vote in decisive elections that could deliver the most far-right government since WWII with the victory Giorgia Meloni, who would become the first woman to hold the country’s top post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
About 51 million Italians are eligible to vote, including 2.7 million first time voters, until polling closes at 11pm, following which the results are expected to be announced. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to pre-poll surveys, Meloni, leader of the Brothers of Italy populist party, could become the country’s first female prime minister, and form the most right-wing government since Benito Mussolini’s fascist rule was overthrown at the end of the war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meloni’s coalition, which includes Matteo Salvini’s far-right League and Silvio Berlusconi’s center-right Forza Italia parties, is expected to win a landslide victory, enjoying a 20 points advantage over Enrico Letta’s central-left Democratic Party and its allies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As voting was underway, the candidates urged Italians to cast their ballots in elections that indicate some 40% of voters are undecided or likely to abstain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Salvini and Berlusconi’s links with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the tug-of-war between Meloni and her European partners and the fear that a large majority could change the Constitution without consensus have prompted confusion and indecisiveness among Italians. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But according to the polls, if these 40% of people vote, the outcome of the elections could be quite different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cToday you can help write history. We can write history together,\u201d Meloni, who said she would cast her ballot in a polling station in the capital city of Rome later in the evening, posted on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n