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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Italian elections: Meloni gets to work on picking right-wing government (BBC News)

The leader of the far-right Brothers of Italy has kept out of sight since winning the election.

Her party was born out of a post-war movement rooted in the fascist past of dictator Benito Mussolini. He also warned that nobody would get a job in the new cabinet by planting party flags on seats. A Meloni government would be judged by its actions, he said. She picked her daughter up from school and worked off some stress in the gym. One former League leader, Roberto Maroni, has even suggested it is time for Mr Salvini to stand down. Several European countries have expressed alarm at her victory.

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Giorgia Meloni says she wants to 'protect' Italian women. Some are ... (Fortune)

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[has admirers](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-09-23/italy-looks-to-a-post-fascist-radical-to-lead). It didn’t help that the incumbent party was [in shambles](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-20/italy-coalition-on-cusp-of-collapse-as-parties-don-t-back-draghi). It was difficult to mount counter-protests, and the election saw [record-low voter turnout](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/26/world/europe/italy-election-meloni-what-to-know.html). The team, whose A-list cofounders include Natalie Portman and Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian, has sold nearly 16,000 season tickets this year, instead of the 5,000 it originally aimed for, and $11 million in corporate sponsorships, compared to the $3.25 million it shot for originally. Girls in STEM have become the next victim in the conservative effort to ban over 1,500 books in schools across the country. In 25 years’ time, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will be no more. She’s also against “pink quotas,” whether in [government or in boardrooms](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/17/giorgia-meloni-brothers-of-italy-leader-far-right-elections-alliance-), stating that she believes in merit-based rather than gender-based advancement. The tumble came after investors rejected Prime Minister Liz Truss’s proposal last week for tax cuts and deregulation to boost the U.K.’s ailing economy. “I expect families to take to the streets.” But Nadia Urbinati, a professor of political theory at Columbia University, argues that Meloni’s interest in supporting women is limited to mothers. “She promised not to touch women’s rights.” The British pound tanks following prime minister Liz Truss’s tax cut proposal, Girls Who Code books are banned from a Pennsylvania school district, and what the election of far-right politician Giorgia Meloni means for women in Italy.

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PROFILE - Italy's 1st projected far-right prime minister since ... (Anadolu Agency)

She is known for harshly criticizing French president, whom she accuses of irregular migration to Italy - Anadolu Agency.

[Anadolu Agency website contains only a portion of the news stories offered to subscribers in the AA News Broadcasting System (HAS), and in summarized form. The solution is not for Africans to migrate to Europe, but for Africa to get rid of the Europeans. She still continues to show this sensitivity with the Arabic letter "nun" in her Twitter profile. After these elections, she began to harden her discourse around the themes of "God, Christianity, patriotism, and family." "We (conservatives) are proud of our identities, of what we stand for. She served as the youth minister in the fourth government led by Silvio Berlusconi, which was established after the 2008 elections.

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