As the leader of a far-right coalition, Meloni, a 45-year-old Eurosceptic firebrand, will now become Italy’s first woman prime minister.
Courtesy | Meloni’s party has seen a meteoric rise in popularity in recent years
Italy will be run by the most far-right government since the Benito Mussolini era, early exit polls suggest.
An alliance of far-right parties, led by Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party, whose roots lie in post-war fascism, was on track to win 41-45% of the vote in Sunday’s general election. , according to data from the exit pollster Rai Piepoli.
The ultra-conservative Brothers of Italy party is likely to win 22-26% of the vote, while coalition partners the League, led by Matteo Salvini, get 8.5-12.5% and Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia gets between 6 and 8% of the vote. The vote.
As the leader of a far-right coalition, Meloni, a 45-year-old Eurosceptic firebrand, will now become Italy’s first woman prime minister. Final results are expected early Monday morning.
Meloni’s party has seen a meteoric rise in popularity in recent years, having obtained just 4.5% of the vote in the last election, in 2018.
His popularity underscores Italy’s longstanding rejection of mainstream politics, seen most recently with the country’s support for anti-establishment parties such as the Five Star Movement and Salvini’s League.
Meloni, a 45-year-old Roman mother who has campaigned under the banner “God, Country and Family,” leads a party whose agenda is rooted in Euroscepticism, anti-immigration policies and which has also proposed reducing community rights. LGBTQ and access to abortion.
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