The coalition of Meloni, Salvini and Berlusconi parties gathers about 43% of the votes and is expected to secure an absolute majority of seats, both in the House and in the Senate.
“We will govern for all Italians”: the head of the Italian far right Georgia Meloniwho wants to become the next prime minister after the victory of her faction in the early parliamentary elections held yesterday Sunday in Italytried to calm concerns at home and abroad.
After the Swedenthe extreme right scores a new victory in Europe, as in Italy—for the first time since the end of World War II— post-fascist party is at the gates of power.
Remaining in opposition, against all successive governments after the 2018 parliamentary elections, the Fratelli d’Italia (FdI) party established itself as the main alternative and saw its percentage take off from 4 .3% four years ago to almost a quarter of the votes today (about 26%), or, in other words, it is turning into the first party of the peninsula’s parliament.
“Italians have sent a clear message in favor of a right-wing government led by the Brothers of Italy”, Ms Meloni said, confirming her ambition to be the next prime minister.
“We will govern for all” the Italians, he promised. “We will do it with the aim of uniting the people, promoting what unites them rather than what divides them,” she added in her brief statement calling for “unity” and appeasement, acknowledging that the election campaign was “violent and aggressive.” He assured that “we will not betray your trust”.
The alliance he formed with the other Italian far-right party, his League Matteo Salvini, and with Forza Italia (FI), his right-wing faction Silvio Berlusconi, gathers about 43% of the votes and is expected to secure an absolute majority of seats, both in the House and in the Senate.
The faction founded at the end of 2012 by Giorgia Meloni with fellow Berlusconi dissidents overtook the Democratic Party (PD) of Enrico Leta, which failed to block the path of the extreme right and falls below the barrier of 20% of the vote, against the background of the comparatively low participation of the electorate in the process (64.07%, from 73.86% in 2018).
The vice president of the PD Deborah Seraciani he recognized the “victory of the right under Georgia Meloni”, speaking of a “night of sadness for the country”.
Vox
The political earthquake in Italy comes two weeks after that in Sweden, where a conservative alliance including the Sweden Democrats (SD), a party that emerged from neo-nazi movement, scored an electoral victory, became the largest right-wing party in the Nordic country. SD and FdI belong to the same political family in the European Parliament.
The Oursula von der Leyenthe president of the European Commission, making an intervention that was received in Rome (with displeasure) as a warning, recalled a few days ago that the EU has “tools” to punish states that violate the rule of law and common values.
“The Italians delivered a lesson in humility to the European Union which, in the voice of Mrs. von der Leyen, tried to dictate to them what they would vote for,” the French MEP commented decisively Jordan Bardella, of the National Alert (RN) of Marine Le Pen. “No threat of any kind can stop democracy,” he added, arguing that Europeans are “taking their destiny into their own hands.”
Black sheep in Brussels, the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, as is his Polish counterpart Mateus Morawiecki, addressed his “congratulations” to Mrs. Meloni.
Through his political advisor and MP Balas Orban, he added: “in these difficult times, we need more than ever friends who have a common vision and a common approach to the challenges in Europe.”
Giorgia Meloni “showed the way” to a Europe “proud”, “free”, made up of “sovereign states”, the leader of the Spanish far-right party Vox celebrated for his part. Santiago Avascal.
The “Great Unknown”
The Brothers of Italy owe their success to the unfulfilled promises of their opponents, the wind of rejection of the political order blowing across the peninsula and the charisma of their leader.
The 45-year-old Romaia, who in her youth professed to be a fan of Benito Mussolini, she succeeded in demonizing herself and her party’s image as well as capitalizing on the fears and anger of millions of Italians in the face of exploding prices and unemployment, the threat of recession and inadequacies in public services.
The next Italian government will be called upon to deal with the crisis caused by the leaps and bounds inflationwhile Italy has public debt which reaches 150% of its GDP.
In the country where governmental instability is a chronic phenomenon, political scientists are already giving short life expectancy in the alliance he won yesterday, a marriage of convenience between three leaders with competing ambitions.
To Mrs. Meloni, “the challenge will be to transform her electoral success into leading a government that can last”, that “is the great unknown” of the new Italian political equation, according to Lorenzo De Sio, professor of political science at the Luiss University in Rome.
Mrs. Meloni, without any government experience beyond her ephemeral stint at the Youth Ministry (2008-2011), she will have her hands full trying to handle her allies, much more experienced than her. Silvio Berlusconi has repeatedly been Prime Minister, Matteo Salvini Minister of the Interior and Deputy Prime Minister.
On the Ukraine file, the EU and other allies of NATO member Italy will put the distribution of portfolios between the three parties under the microscope. While Mrs. Meloni is a staunch supporter of the Atlantic alliance and is in favor of the sanctions imposed on Russia, Mr. Salvini is against it.
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