Italians will vote today on, as INTO ce are calling crucial elections, at a time when Europe is suffering from the consequences of Russia's war in Ukraine.

For the first time in Italy since the end of the Second World War, these elections could bring the leader of the extreme right, the head of the party of the Brothers of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, to the head of the government.

The huge costs of energy and the rapid increase in the prices of basic products as the bread, what ce As a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, many Italian families and businesses have been hit hard.

In such dark circumstances, Giorgia Meloni and her party Brothers of Italy with neo-fascist roots and a program in which ce God, Fatherland and Christian Identity, ce they seem to be leading according to pre-election polls.

The election could be a test of whether far-right sentiment is gaining ground in the 27-member EU. Recently, a right-wing party in Sweden ce gained popularity by exploiting people's fears of crime, Beta recalls.

The main partner in Giorgia Meloni's alliance is Matteo Salvini's right-wing League party, which blames migrants for crime. Salvini has long been an ideological supporter of the right-wing governments in Hungary and Poland.

– Elections in the middle of a war, in the middle of an energy crisis and at the beginning of, as what does it look like, an economic crisis... ce almost by definition decisive, said Nathalie Tocchi, director of the Rome-based Institute of International Affairs.

- Russian President Vladimir Putin, who ordered the invasion of Ukraine on February 24, ce he is betting that "Europe will burst" under the weight of the economic and energy problems caused by the war, Toki said.

Salvini, who has a voter base among business owners in northern Italy, has previously worn T-shirts supporting Putin. He also questioned the wisdom of doing so ce maintain Western economic sanctions against Russia, stating that they may be too harmful to Italian economic interests.

The publication of the results of the polls was suspended on the 15th days ahead of tomorrow's elections, but earlier they showed that the party of Gioggia Meloni would win the most votes, just ahead of the center-left Democratic Party led by former prime minister Enrico Letta.

The campaign alliance linking Meloni with conservative allies Salvini and former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has a clear advantage over Letta in Italy's complex system of allocating parliamentary seats.

It flies in vain ce had hoped to form an alliance with the left-wing populist Five Star Movement, the largest party in the outgoing government.

Although this is hard time for Europe, tomorrow's election turnout could be the lowest ever in Italy. In the previous elections in 2018 year had a record low turnout of 73 percent. Lorenzo Pregliasco, who runs a public opinion polling firm, says turnout could drop as low as 66 percent this time.

The outgoing government is headed by the former head of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi. At the beginning of 2021 year, the Italian president invited Draghi to form a unity government after the collapse of Five Star Movement leader Giuseppe Conte's second governing coalition.

As Pregliasco said, "in an apparent paradox" polls show that "most Italians like Draghi and think his government has done well", yet Giorgia Meloni, the only leader of the leading party who refused to ce joined Draghi's coalition, leads according to polls.

According to Talkie, George Meloni's party is only so popular because it's new.

Draghi said he does not want another term as Prime Minister.