Local vote comes as Italy struggles to form government
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Voting in one of Italy's tiniest regions is being watched for any shift in voter sentiment as politicians in Rome struggle to form a national government.
Residents of Molise, a southern region that is one of Italy's least populous, were voting Sunday for governor and regional representatives.
The March 4 national parliamentary election yielded a political stalemate, with the populist 5-Star Movement and a center-right bloc emerging as big winners, but each without enough votes to govern alone.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Italian President Sergio Mattarella has tried, so far without success, to see which parties might be willing to partner in a coalition solid enough to command a majority in Parliament.
Molise's outgoing governor is a Democrat, the lead party in Italy's now-caretaker government.
The center-left Democrats were trounced in the March vote.