(ANSA) - Rome, February 13 - Premier Matteo Renzi's ruling
centre-left Democratic Party (PD) rose 0.5% to 37.5% in Ixé's
weekly poll of voter intentions for Raitre TV.
The rightwing populist Northern League gained 0.1% to 13.9%
and is now more than a point ahead of ex-premier Silvio
Berlusconi's Forza Italia (FI) which fell 0.2% to 12.8%.
Beppe Grillo's anti-establishment 5-Star Movement fell 0.3%
to 19.1% but held on to a comfortable second place in voter
intentions.
The leftwing Left Ecology and Freedom (SEL) party came a
distant fifth again and was down 0.2% to 3.8%.
Those saying they would vote rather than abstain rose from
56.8% to 58.3% over the week.
Here are the leading parties (previous week's score in
brackets):
- PD 37.5% (37.0).
- M5S 19.1% (19.4).
- Northern League 13.9% (13.8).
- FI 12.8% (12.9).
- SEL 3.8% (4.0).
PD rises, Northern League ahead of FI - poll
M5S second, SEL fifth