Two Eurosceptic and strongly anti-establishment parties have come out as the two biggest parties, the centre-right League (having won up to 50% in the wealthy north) and the 5 Star movement (winner of more than 50% in the troubled south, where poverty rates have increased by half since the crisis).
The classic political division between ‘rightwing’ and ‘left-wing’ variants of populism does not apply in this case. The League’s opposition to globalisation mostly focuses on resentment against foreigners, whereas the 5 Star movement mostly appealed to voters by proposing a universal basic income for all.