Current Events > Giorgia Meloni set to be Italy's most far-right prime minister since Mussolini

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https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/25/europe/italy-election-results-intl/index.html

Italy will be led by the most far-right government since the fascist era of Benito Mussolini, early exit polls suggest. An alliance of far-right parties, led by Giorgia Meloni's Brothers of Italy party -- whose origins lie in post-war fascism -- were on track to win between 41 and 45% of the vote in Sunday's general election, according to data from the Rai exit pollster Piepoli. The ultra-conservative Brothers of Italy party looks likely to win between 22 and 26% of the vote, with coalition partners the League, led by Matteo Salvini, taking between 8.5 and 12.5% and Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia scoring between 6 and 8% of the vote. As the leader of a far-right coalition, Meloni, a 45-year-old Euroskeptic firebrand, is now set to become Italy's first female prime minister. Final results are expected early Monday. Meloni's party has seen an astronomical rise in popularity in recent years, having won just 4.5% of the vote in the last elections, in 2018.

Meloni, a 45-year-old mother from Rome who has campaigned under the slogan "God, country and family," leads a party whose agenda is rooted in Euroskepticism, anti-immigration policies, and one that has also proposed curtailing LGBTQ and abortion rights. Sunday's snap national election was triggered by party infighting that saw the collapse of Prime Minister Mario Draghi's government in July. Sunday's results come as other far-right parties in other European countries have marked recent gains, including the rise in Sweden's anti-immigration party, Sweden Democrats -- a party with neo-Nazi roots -- who are expected to play a major role in the new government after winning the second largest share of seats at a general election earlier this month.

Pathetic, Italy.

is that the one who uses anime to depict herself? And makes herself look like half her real age

Good job Europe

Not surprising, you're going to see more right wing shifts in other parts of the EU.

smh

it really does seem like right wing authority is taking over the world what's causing everyone to run to the right?

tremain07 posted...

it really does seem like right wing authority is taking over the world what's causing everyone to run to the right?

The far-right will blame it on rampant unchecked wokeism.

"You made me do this!!!!!"

https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/xnz11c/italys_far_right_set_to_win_election_exit_poll/ipxim9d/

Take it from an Italian

It's not about it being unstable, we don't really have a left. We have something that divides itself into smaller parties who don't cooperate and the right/far right, despite being much more volatile in numbers (Lega, the party of Salvini, went down from way above 20% to the current 9% according to the exit polls) always are in coalitions, despite hating their guts on some topics (Meloni wants to be in Europe, salvini doesn't. Lega is the only party who doesn't want to change the unanimous voting system of the EU.). They're also under investigations for alleged links with Russians, salvini himself endorsed or defended Putin many times. You get the idea.

If we had a compact, solid alternative to the right, we could easily govern without them. But our political system has been corrupted and twisted since the first Berlusconi's government and during the years of the mafia. Young people here want to go away, despite loving the country. We're fed up with crap made for boomers who don't leave anything for younger people and slow down progress as much as they can. We call the right here Christofascist too, as meloni quite literally used the same tones of Mussolini. It's extremely sad.

Didnt Mussolini start as a socialist?

depressing

tremain07 posted...

it really does seem like right wing authority is taking over the world what's causing everyone to run to the right?

Fear of immigrants.

Fear mongering
Propaganda
and Russian money and troll army

Reading far-right Twitter and its toxic as fuck.

Has Biden or Bernie made a comment on this yet?

tremain07 posted...

it really does seem like right wing authority is taking over the world what's causing everyone to run to the right?

The further we as a planet slide into environmental ruin and resource scarcity, the more people will look towards demagogues full of easy answers, most often in the form of scapegoating and shortsighted non-solutions.

we know what happened when Trump and Bolsonaro got elected.

why is the rest of the world keen on repeating the same mistakes? smh

I'm sure this time far-right fascism will work out great, you guys. Just ignore the literal mountain of corpses proving otherwise.