The poll was carried out right after local-election runoffs on Sunday and showed that the PD lost 1.9% in voters‘ preferences to drop to 27.4% while the M5S of leader Beppe Grillo was down 1.2% to 26.8%, compared to a poll carried out by Ixè at the end of May.
Meanwhile the anti-migrant Northern League (LN) and the conservative Forza Italia (FI) party of Silvio Berlusconi, the big winners of the runoffs, gained respectively 1.4% to reach 14% and 0.7% to 13.7%.