Giorgia Meloni

2022 - 9 - 26

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Giorgia Meloni wins in Italy – proof that even a seemingly successful ... (The Conversation UK)

Italy's next prime minister promises a lot on the campaign trail but the reality of government will prove a shock.

Meloni will have a chance to take a hardline approach on domestic policy and will certainly endeavour to be tougher on migration and on social rights, as her electorate appears to be demanding. While the electoral results established her as the clear head of the coalition, a lack of expertise and experience will make populating ministerial posts a challenge. By staying outside of the coalition, Meloni gave herself the opportunity to freely criticise the government and present her party as the only true opposition. Meloni will become prime minister at the head of a coalition – although the make up of that government is yet to be decided. They made a particularly strong showing in the south, thanks to policies of this kind. By February 2021, when former European Central Bank president Mario Draghi was forming a national unity government, 16.5% of the voting public was already saying they intended to vote for Brothers of Italy – the only major political party not supporting Draghi.

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Introducing Giorgia Meloni: How The United States Opened The ... (Countercurrents)

With the help of people like Steve Bannon, Meloni was able to rise like a toxic slime on the surface of a sea of contaminated waste.

Instead of acting as a neutral party and demanding a pathway for a negotiated peace in Ukraine, the Italian government is a pawn on the American chess board ready to declare checkmate on the climate and on the future. Meloni’s party is likely to earn around 25 percent making Fratelli di Italia the most popular party in Italy and insuring that Meloni will become the first woman prime minister of the country. Renzi is known for his shady alliances with the House of Saud and a series of corruption scandals that have made him quite unpopular. There is the Green/Italian Left that has a broad-based social democratic platform based on a socially just ecological transition, however, they are schizophrenically aligned with the Democratic Party whose leadership openly declared that they were only in coalition with them for useful votes to defeat the threat of Meloni and that they would then again push the neoliberal NATO dominated Draghi agenda and largely ignore their Green/Left counterparts. The Italian Parliamentary election has concluded and the neofascist Giorgia Meloni is ready to emerge as the new prime minister of a divided country with no clear mandate from around 60 percent of eligible voters, in one of the lower voter turnouts in history. And then there is the newly reorganized 5 Star Movement now led by former prime minister Giuseppe Conte, which has splintered with the components that were supportive of the Draghi neoliberal agenda.

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