“There is no middle ground possible. Either say yes, or say no. Yes to the natural family, no to the lobbies LGBT. Yes to sexual identity, no to gender ideology. Yes to the culture of life, no to the abyss of death. Yes to the universality of the cross, no to Islamist violence. Yes to secure borders, no to mass immigration. Yes to the sovereignty of the peoples, no to the bureaucrats in Brussels. Yes to civilization, no to those who want to destroy it. This was the speech Georgia Melonileader of Brothers of Italyarticulated at a Vox rally in Marbella, on June 12, and that set the Andalusian campaign on fire.
The harangue, delivered in a very heated tone, was used by the left to charge once morest Santiago Abascal and his candidate for the Junta de Andalucía, Macarena Olona, who applauded loudly when the Italian nationalist leader gave them her support. Many leftists wanted to see in Meloni something like the parousia of fascism due to the traditionalist, nativist and protectionist content of his speech. She was accused, among other things, of being “racist” and “homophobic.”
Many of those accusations are branded as “caricaturesque” by some of those involved in that campaign, but they themselves admit that it is true that they gave arguments to social networks and the media to stir up fear of the “far right” once more. This was a weapon that was losing effectiveness in recent electoral campaigns, but perhaps it had something to do with Olona’s poor result on 19-J (very far from the internal polls they managed). Some Vox leaders, in fact, confessed to THE OBJECTIVE that the involvement of an international politician like Meloni was a strategic mistake because she had little to contribute in a campaign that, precisely, lacked proactive content on local matters.
But the fact is that it was not the first time that Meloni intervened in a Vox act -he was already present at VIVA 21 that the formation chaired by Santiago Abascal held at IFEMA (Madrid) last October-, nor will it be the last . In fact, he will be present, as this media has learned, at the Second Ibero-American Summit that ECR-Eurolat (European Conservatives and Reformists) will hold the next 10 and 11 October in Madrid. On the eve of Columbus Day.
The summit will consist of five panels which will take place over two days and will deal with issues such as “relations between Europe and Latin America, the threat from Russia and China, the war of the extreme left to destroy democracy and freedoms, or the process of regaining freedom by the patriotic and conservative forces on both sides of the Atlantic.
Georgia Meloni
Many did not know who Georgia Meloni (Rome, 1977) was until her speech at the Vox rally in Marbella went viral, but the truth is that she is one of the figures that is emerging most strongly within the European right . Not in vain, the polls predict that she might be the next president of the country of the boot, having experienced brutal growth since the last elections in 2018, where she obtained 4.3% of the vote. Today she might reap 23%, ahead of the Democratic Party (centre-left), which would currently be her great competitor following having engulfed the right.
The presidency would be the end of the path that Meloni began in December 2012, when he co-founded the radical right-wing party that he has led ever since, gradually consummating his overtaking to the League of Matteo Salvini, whom he already surpassed in the last municipal elections held in Italy. The strengthening of Abascal’s ties with Meloni, note, has been accompanied by a distancing with Salvini, who was also not at Vox’s VIVA 21 for the benefit of his competitor.
It has also gained ground on Silvio Berlusconi to the point of facing him -what Abascal would say- of Donald Trump and of Viktor Orbán, Hungarian Prime Minister, his ideological references to which he might reply shortly. Meloni’s winning inertia is now trying to be capitalized on by the leaders of Vox, who need to surround themselves with international leaders to project a certain image of institutionality before the 2023 general elections.
