ROME — Italians overwhelmingly voted to hand power to the most far-right government since Benito Mussolini was ousted from power and hung from a gas station girder after World War II with the clear victory of Giorgia Meloni and her Brothers party in Italy—Accompanying alliance partners Matteo Salvini and Silvio Berlusconi.
Lega leader Matteo Salvini wears a Donald Trump mask.
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Meloni now looks set to become the first female leader of one of the world’s largest economies and told crowds of supporters at the final campaign rally in Rome’s Piazza del Popoplo that the world was wrong to fear her after widespread condemnation. alt-right politics towards the vote. “What are they afraid of?” she shouted as the crowd changed “Giorgia! Giorgia! Giorgia!”
A lot, the answer should be. She hates immigrants and seems to be usually women. She has campaigned against reproductive rights such as abortion and LGBTQ rights, instead praising the traditional family despite her being an unmarried single mother and daughter of a single mother.
Meloni is very much the creation of one of her biggest supporters, Steve Bannon, who traveled to Rome for the last election campaign in 2018 and made headlines for her ultra-conservative party conferences. . He also secured her as a speaker at C-Pac, where in 2022 she addressed some of the world’s most radical leaders, including Viktor Orban of Hungary, whom she considers a close friend and colleague. smart in Europe.
Meloni severed his political ties as a member of the Fascist Italian Social Movement, founded by Mussolini’s supporters after his deposed and death. She was the youngest vice president of the corporation before its dissolution following a government decree that fascist parties were banned.
She then joined the National Coalition, which grew from the ashes of the previous party and stood in the ranks until forming her own party, called the Brotherhood of Italy, which boasts a top. tricolor fire – an unrefined reference to fascism and supporters of Mussolini’s undying power.
She was appointed youth minister by one of Silvio Berlusconi’s original governments, and quietly built the base. Her party included not one, but two of Mussolini’s great granddaughters, and she made no secret of the policies that made her popular among populist circles.
And although she is set to become Italy’s first female leader under patriarchy – an achievement that has yet to be achieved in the US – she is no friend of women. She has hinted that she will stifle abortion rights. Two regions in Italy that her party controls have restricted legal abortion to less than nine weeks – national law.
She also threatened to re-examine the same-sex union law passed in Italy in 2016, a call that all members of her union accepted.
Silvio Berlusconi with Vladamir Putin in Italy.
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By her side in the final campaign, Silvio Berlusconi – one of Vladimir Putin’s BFFs – and Matteo Salvini – are on trial for kidnapping for stopping a migrant ship from docking in Italy during the war. served as Interior Minister in the last government.
While Meloni has said she supports the continuation of sanctions against Russia, her partners have called for softening them to benefit the Italian economy, which had deep ties with pre-war Russia. painting.
Her party’s victory is now followed by the usual Italian bureaucracy. The newly elected parliament will reconvene on October 13, and the country’s president Sergio Mattarella will meet with all parties with more than 3% of the vote. Only then will he officially sign what seems, at least for the moment, an uncertain fate.
