Giorgia Meloni is on track to lead Italy’s most right-wing government since World War II after early results signaled a clear victory for her coalition in Sunday’s election.
“Yes to the natural family. No to LGBT lobbies. Yes to sexual identity. No to gender ideology. Yes to the culture of life. No to the abyss of death.” –Giorgia Meloni
Bloomberg Meloni’s alliance, which includes Matteo Salvini’s League and Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia, will win about 43% of the vote for the crucial upper house, according to projections from RAI, the public broadcaster. That would give the bloc at least 114 seats in the Senate, where 104 votes are required for a majority, putting her in line to become the country’s first female prime minister.
“It’s a pretty decisive outcome,” said Geoffrey Yu, a senior FX strategist at Bank of New York Mellon in London.
Meloni cut her teeth in politics as a far-right activist in the 1990s and her campaigning is still marked by fiery attacks on the European Union, immigrants and LGBTQ groups. But she has also tried to reassure voters and investors that she will keep Italy’s mammoth debt under control and won’t question the country’s foreign alliances or support for Ukraine.
Giorgia Meloni could become Italy’s first far-right leader since Benito Mussolini in Sunday’s general elections.
Al Jazeera’s @vpietromarchi explains why Meloni, who could also become the country’s first female PM is so popular ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/BYgHWX3pWg
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) September 24, 2022
andrewblackadder says
How strange it seems these days when a politician says they want Italians to be proud of being Italian, to preserve and protect Italy and their culture, to say that they do need people from outside their country to ”save” them as those people come from a very different culture and mindset and so Italy for Italians first and foremost, so how can that be ”far right” just as they use the word ”populist” as if that was an evil label, so love of your country and culture with others of your country and culture is now thought of as something bad…
Strange days indeed.
VIVA Meloni/Salvini.
I love Italy.
BBC says
Islam and its Muslim vermin only takes.
How in Gods name has this rubbish lasted for as long as they have? Who would not pray for change. Italy YES!
Classy Infidel says
ROME, Sept 26 (Reuters) – Giorgia Meloni, head of the nationalist Brothers of Italy party, said on Monday Italian voters had given a clear mandate to the right to form the next government and called for unity to help confront the country’s many problems.
“If we are called upon to govern this nation, we will do so for all Italians, with the aim of uniting the people, of exalting what unites them rather than what divides them,” Meloni told reporters. “We will not betray your trust.”
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/italys-meloni-calls-unity-after-election-victory-2022-09-26/
Donovan Nuera says
Why cannot Italy just be done with immigration? They have a unique culture that everyone admires that goes back to the Romans and Estruscans and have given us civilization and faith. Where are they going to go if they get depopulated or pushed out by illiterate mahgrebbis and syrians? Ask the martyrs of Otranto what would happen! I am sick of Europeans being forced to become a homogenous grey soup of blue jeans, ballcaps (for a game they DON”T PLAY), drill rapped, post-Christian know-it alls, soccer-fetishing tattoed yobs, greasy mohammad-mopped jihadis wearing Emirate branded “sportswear”, pencil-necked blue trimfitted suited wonky elitists, shallow wimpy wokey multicultist bleeding hearts. Look at any city square in any European city made ugly by brutalist/internationalist/trendy po-mo piles of ugly concrete; you will see this soup just loitering about with cell phones and ear buds.
BareNakedIslam says
The EU controls them. In return for funding they get from the EU, they have to follow orders about immigration.
Grace Joy says
Brava!
Fritz the Cat says
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