07:48 PM
Monday 26 September 2022
Agencies:
Giorgia Meloni is on the cusp of rising power in Italy, transforming from nanny to the country’s first female prime minister.
Meloni, the far-right, whose “Brothers of Italy” party won the legislative elections according to unofficial results, boasts slogans about reviving Italy’s glory, victory for nationalism, and rejecting the “Islamization of Italy”.
Politicians in Europe consider Meloni, with its slogans and intellectual affiliation, to belong to “neo-fascism”, which is rejected in Europe, but the potential Prime Minister of Italy rejects that classification.
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Far-right leader Georgia Meloni has declared victory in Italy’s general election, ahead of the official results.
If the results are confirmed, definitively, she will become the first woman to hold the position of prime minister in the country’s history.
Meloni will begin to form a coalition government that will lead the country, and is dominated by right-wing politicians, so that it will be the most extremist government in the country’s history, since the end of World War II, according to what was described by Western media.
France 24 stated that it was not surprising that her party took the lead in the legislative elections, after opinion polls nominated it to win. To be the leader of “Fratella d’Italia” (Brothers of Italy) Giorgia Meloni, the biggest winner in this merit, which is preparing today to lead the new government, to be the first woman to occupy this position in the history of Italy.
The provisional results, after counting more than half of the votes, indicated that the Brothers of Italy party received about a quarter of the vote (between 22 and 26 percent). While Meloni’s ally, the League party led by the far-right Matteo Salvini, achieved disastrous results by garnering only about nine percent of the vote, and Meloni outperformed him in all northern regions, the traditional strongholds of the League.
Who is Meloni?
She hails from a popular neighborhood in Rome. She was born in January 1977, and became involved as a youth in a number of student associations known for their extreme right-wing tendencies.
In 1996, she headed an association in secondary schools that took the Celtic cross as a logo, which is used by some racist groups and neo-Nazis, according to “France 24”.
In 2006, she became a member of Parliament before being appointed as a deputy speaker of its parliament, becoming the youngest elected to this position. Two years later, she took the position of Youth Minister in Silvio Berlusconi’s government, her only government experience.
At the end of 2012, she founded the “Fratelli d’Italia” party with other dissidents from Berlusconi’s party, the former Italian prime minister, and chose to sit in the opposition camp.
Meloni considers herself one of the heirs of the “Italian Social Movement”, which was established after World War II and is classified among the neo-fascist parties, according to “France 24”.
But she said in an interview with the British magazine “The Spectator” a short time ago, “If I were a fascist, I would say so.”
However, this has not prevented her to this day from acknowledging that Mussolini “accomplished a lot”, although he made “mistakes” including the anti-Jewish laws and the entry of war, and at the same time, she stresses that “there is no place for people who yearn for fascism, racism and anti-Semitism” in The ranks of her political organization, to push the accusations of racism and Nazism from her party.
Protecting Italy from “Islamization”
“We must remember that we have not reached the end point, we are at the starting point. From tomorrow we must prove our worth,” Meloni said early Monday morning after the partial election results were announced.
“If we are called to rule this people, we will do so for all Italians, with the aim of uniting the people and glorifying what unites them, not what divides them,” she added.
According to Italian media, Meloni’s priorities include closing Italy’s borders to protect the country from what it considers “Islamization”. In 2016, Meloni denounced the “ethnic transformation taking place in Italy” similar to other far-right parties and movements in Europe.