Youtrend poll: minimum-wage support crosses Italy’s political divide
A statutory minimum wage of €9 an hour receives 70% support and 17% opposition in the Youtrend poll for Sky TG24 published on November 11: support reaches 58% among governing-majority voters and 92% among Campo Largo voters.[1]
That is the survey’s political significance: an opposition proposal attracts support across the political divide, without amounting to a vote on legislation already passed.[1]
**What was measured.** Sky’s methodological note reports CAWI interviews conducted on November 7–9, 2026 with 810 adults resident in Italy, using gender and age quotas and stratification by education and geographical area.[1]
The stated margin of error is ±3.4% at a 95% confidence level: the findings were published today, but responses were collected earlier.[1]
**Support for a policy is not automatically trust in a coalition.** Asked whom they trust more to manage the economy, 26% choose the centre-right governing majority and 21% the centre-left opposition, while 40% answer “neither” and 13% do not express a view.[1]
L’Espresso also reports the 58% support among majority voters and the gap between policy approval and economic trust: this is external journalistic coverage of the same poll, not a second independent measurement.[2]
**The budget through households’ eyes.** Some 13% expect a positive effect on their household finances, 39% no effect, 28% a negative effect and 20% do not express a view.[1]
These figures describe expectations, not economic effects already delivered by the budget law.[1]
Sky also puts voting intentions at 27.4% for FdI, 20.3% for the Democratic Party and 13.2% for the Five Star Movement: these are survey estimates, not election results.[1]
The political point is therefore specific: a labour-policy proposal wins backing beyond its own camp, while trust in economic management remains limited on both sides.[1][2]
We do not directly compare these percentages with the previously covered SWG poll: different pollsters and surveys do not by themselves form a consistent time series.
## Sources
[1] https://tg24.sky.it/politica/2026/11/11/sondaggio-youtrend-intenzioni-voto-partiti-misure-manovra
[2] https://lespresso.it/c/politica/2026/11/11/sondaggi-politici-italia-youtrend-sky-tg24/65864