Exactly 100 years after Mussolini's National Fascist Party seized power in Italy, another leader of the nationalist right is expected to take over.
Meloni doesn't hold a university degree, but she is the leader of a far-right party and has been campaigning for a long time. Polls show her and Brothers of Italy will win the election.
While many conservatives cheer her ascent and the idea of the first woman to rule Italy, her candidacy has raised concerns among Italians about racism and the future of abortion in the country.
Meloni has toned down her attacks on the European Union, but she still appeared at a June rally in support of Spain's far-right Vox party.
She said that no middle ground was possible because of the secular left and radical Islam.
Natural families, yes! No to the lobbies of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and queer community. Yes to being sexual. She yelled 'No to gender ideology'. Yes to the universality of the cross. No to mass immigration and yes to securing borders.
Current polls show the party in first place at 25%, whereas Brothers of Italy took a mere 4% of the vote in parliamentary elections last year. A network of right-wing populist European parties was intended to be formed by the former White House strategist. He helped Brothers of Italy and brought her along to high-profile media interviews. According to Yahoo News, Benjamin Harnwell, international editor for Bannon's "War Room", said that after their first meeting, "this woman is going to transform Italy."
David Broder, Europe editor of the left-wing journal Jacobin, has been sounding the alarm about Meloni. He thinks that her plans to crack down on immigration is just one of the problems. He told Yahoo News thatMeloni said her party would use a naval blockade off of Africa to stop migrants from crossing the Mediterranean. It's a recipe for Italian naval vessels to sink migrant boats and kill thousands of people. Under maritime law and EU law, it is illegal. We can imagine the conflict that would arise from that.
One of the most powerful critics of Meloni is a fashion designer who has warned against restrictions on abortion in Italy. In August, Ferragni warned her 27 million followers that in Italy's eastern region of Marche, which is governed by Brothers of Italy, abortion has become "practically impossible." The party doesn't allow dispersal of abortion pills in clinics and abortions are not allowed after seven weeks of pregnancy. The Brothers of Italy want to allow protesters to enter abortion clinics. If the right wins the elections, that type of policy could become national.
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A 1978 abortion law that requires that pregnant women be fully counseled on alternatives to abortion will be implemented by Brothers of Italy.
The abortion politics of the party are linked to the immigration issue, according to Broder. He pointed out that Meloni said that the Italians were at risk of extinction. Citizenship to the children of immigrants is part of the ethnic substitution of the Italians.
A video of an African asylumseeker raping a woman in a small town in broad daylight was taken down from the internet. Some who don't support her say she's running an impressive "Revive Italy" campaign in which she describes herself as a woman, a mother, and a Christian.
Roberto Savio, a political commentator and co- founder of the Inter Press Service news agency, said that she has the ability to communicate with the people. He said her working-class background in Rome has endeared her to a lot of people. Italy has gone through six prime ministers in the past 10 years, and Meloni is an unknown commodity in a country with high youth unemployment.
Many people vote for Meloni because they say they tried with other parties and nothing worked. Let's try it. He thought she might surprise us.
With rising inflation, the European energy crisis, Italian bureaucracy and her relative lack of hands-on governing experience, she won't last long if she is elected, according to the man.
The Rise of the Far Right in Europe was co-authored by Florence-based sociologist and professor Giovanna Campani. People who go into politics in France have a lot of training. The woman didn't go to university. She said that it worked in her favor with some people. Campani doesn't think she did enough to become an accomplished person in a leadership role. Campani is worried that with Italy led by Meloni, who is opposed to gay adoption and favors what she calls "natural motherhood," life will become harder for those in the LGBTQ community and immigrants.
Broder thinks that Italy could become like Hungary under Orbn's leadership. He said that we are more likely to see an erosion of democratic standards. He is worried that Meloni's views about immigration and non-white Europeans will be infectious. It is symbolic to have a prime minister endorsing racist ideas. He's uneasy with the fact that her party's alliance with the League is likely to give the right an absolute majority in the upcoming elections
Broder said that Meloni's commitments will probably weaken once she is in power. There are a lot of potential split lines within the potential majority. A lot of voters for both Brothers of Italy and the League want to end the sanctions against Russia. The blowback against energy in Europe will make it difficult for Meloni to maintain her pro-Ukraine stance.
The future Meloni government may follow in the footsteps of the other governments that preceded it. Broder cautions that it could last for a long time.
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