Former Prime Minister and president of Italian right-wing party Forza Italia Silvio Berlusconi | Riccardo Pareggiani/AFP via Getty Images Berlusconi bloc rises in Italian polls Former prime minister and allies are ‘very close’ to having enough support for election victory.

A potential center-right coalition led by former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia party is gaining support in opinion polls, less than two months before Italy's March election.

In a survey carried out by Tecne, a center-right coalition headed by Berlusconi's party polled at 39.2 percent and thus appeared "very close" to reaching a parliamentary majority, Tecne's chairman Carlo Buttaroni told Reuters on Wednesday.

In a separate survey by IPR, the potential coalition consisting of Forza Italia, the Northern League, the Brothers of Italy and another smaller party reached 38 percent, Reuters reported. The threshold to be able to form a governing coalition is considered to be 40 percent.

Both the Tecne and the IPR polls showed the alliance could beat a center-left coalition led by Italy's ruling Democratic Party (PD), under the leadership of former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, and would also outstrip the anti-establishment 5Star Movement.

The PD's support has dropped to 22 percent according to IPR and is down to 20.7 percent according to Tecne. Adding in the party's allies, the entire center-left coalition polled at 27.5 percent in the IPR poll and 25 percent in the Tecne poll.

The 5Star Movement is currently the country's most popular individual party in the polls, but because it generally opposes forming a coalition with other parties, it is unlikely to enter government.

Berlusconi is currently barred from holding public office due to a 2013 tax fraud conviction, though he is seeking to appeal this ban.