Cheering for Luigi - hometown of Five Star Movement leader scents victory as Italy heads to the polls

Campaign posters in Pomigliano d'Arco portraying Luigi Di Maio, the leader of the Five Star Movement, and Vittorio Sgarbi, standing against him (with glasses), an art critic and TV personality known for his irreverent language. Credit: Chris Warde-Jones

Filling a customer’s plastic bag with glistening white strips of fresh calamari, Enrico Ursini has no doubt who he will vote for in Italy’s general election on Sunday.

“I’m with Di Maio all the way,” the fishmonger says, referring to Luigi Di Maio, the 31-year-old leader of the anti-establishment Five Star Movement.

“They’re the new generation. If they win, we’ll send Luigi a nice big box of seafood as a present.”

Mr Ursini runs a stall selling fish, prawns and clams in an open-air market in Pomigliano d’Arco, the town near Naples where Mr Di Maio was born and raised.
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