Italy Holds Elections as Economic Clouds Gather

ROME—Italians began voting Sunday morning in elections that will determine who will steer the country through Europe’s worsening energy crisis and its confrontation with Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.

A right-wing coalition is widely expected to win a comfortable majority in Parliament, according to opinion polls, a result that would likely pave the way for Giorgia Meloni, a politician with a far-right background, to succeed Mario Draghi as Italy’s prime minister. Mr. Draghi, a technocrat who led a bipartisan coalition, isn’t running in the election.