Far-right Giorgia Meloni Set To Become The First Female PM Of Italy

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Far-right Giorgia Meloni set to become the first female PM of Italy: Opinion polls
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August 16, 2022
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If Meloni's party wins the 25 Septemberer polls, then she will also become the nation's first far-right leader since the Second World War. Also, it would come almost 100 years after Benito Mussolini came to power in October 1922
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Giorgia Meloni from the far-right Brothers of Italy party, who comes with neo-fascist pedigree, is leading the opinion polls for the upcoming general elections scheduled to be held on 25 September 2022. Giorgia, a former Italian minister, formed the Brothers of Italy party in 2012, after splitting away from the centre-right People of Freedom party. The party's symbol contains a tri-coloured flame, the symbol of the now-dissolved neo-fascist Italian Social Movement party, which Meloni was a part of in her teens. The Italian Social Movement was launched in 1946 by the supporters of the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. Opinion polls have shown that the Brothers of Italy can win around 24 per cent of votes in the upcoming elections... If the Brothers of Italy prevails at the polls on 25 Septemberer and the 45-year-old Meloni becomes the PM, making her the first female premier of the country and far-right leader since the Second World War. 

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In 2019, Meloni proudly introduced Caio Giulio Cesare Mussolini, a great-grandson of the dictator, as one of her candidates for the European Parliament, although he eventually lost. She recently recorded video messages in English, French and Spanish that said the Italian right "has handed fascism over to history for decades now, unambiguously condemning the suppression of democracy and the ignominious anti-Jewish laws." That was a reference to the 1938 laws banning Italy's small Jewish community from participating in business, education and other facets of everyday life. ... Right-wing politicians have done a far better job this year than the Democrats of forging wide-ranging electoral partnerships.Meloni has allied with the right-wing League party led by Matteo Salvini, who, like her, favours crackdowns on illegal migration.

She has apologized for the "tone" but not the content of a blistering speech she delivered in June in Spain to drum up support for far-right party Vox.  While some saw that as a parody, Meloni loved it and even sang a few bars on a state radio program. According to her 2021 memoir "I am Giorgia," much of her identity was forged by growing up in Rome's working-class Garbatella neighbourhood. At 15, she joined a youth branch of the Italian Social Movement, the neo-fascist party with the flame symbol, and plastered political posters in the capital. Her party staunchly backed Draghi's moves to send weapons to Ukraine, even as Salvini and Berlusconi, open admirers of Russian President Vladimir Putin, issued only tepid support. Meloni also defends the NATO alliance anchored by the United States...

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