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The big issues of Italy's election campaign in charts
The centre-right coalition, including Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia and Matteo Salvini’s Northern League, has been able to “ride a wave of discontent over the migration crisis”, according to Luigi Scazzieri of the Centre for European Reform. Italy has a relatively low immigrant population but the issue has become a top concern for Italians because of the flow of migrants arriving from across the Mediterranean.