The Northern League defeat in the Emilia Romagna region during the recent Italian regional ballot on January 26th, is a setback for the Italian centre-right coalition who had hoped to force snap elections in case of a victory. Although Mr Salvini and his allies (Mrs Meloni Fratelli d’Italia and Mr Berlusconi’s Forza Italia) won the majority of the votes in the Southern Calabria region, the coalition did not make it in one of Italy’s wealthiest areas considered a stronghold of Italy’s left since the Second World War. Mr Stefano Bonaccini was elected with 51.4% of the vote in Emilia Romagna, while the League candidate, Mrs Lucia Borgonzoni, took 43.6%. The Five Star Movement however was the biggest loser compared to the 2014 elections. It lost more than two thirds of its votes in the region from the time of the party’s foundation in 2009. Click on the link to read the Italian centre-right suffers setback but not out in regional polls.