Italy on Monday took a sharp turn towards the right as Giorgia Meloni and her Brothers of Italy party, which has neo-fascist roots, emerged as big winners in the country’s national elections.
Final results on Monday showed Meloni and her party winning roughly 26 of the vote and the center-right coalition she leads scoring 44 of parliamentary preferences. Within that coalition Matteo Salvini’s anti-immigrant League won nearly 9 and former prime minister and media mogul Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia took 8. A much smaller member of the coalition, called the Moderates, took less than 1.
Meloni’s closest challenger, with some 19.3 of the vote, is the center-left Democratic Party headed by Enrico Letta, who has announced his resignation. Italy’s anti-establishment 5-Star Movement — which had won the vote in Italy’s 2018 parliamentary elections — saw its support halved to some 15 this time around.
Meloni, who is 45, is now poised to become Italy’s first female prime minister,...
Final results on Monday showed Meloni and her party winning roughly 26 of the vote and the center-right coalition she leads scoring 44 of parliamentary preferences. Within that coalition Matteo Salvini’s anti-immigrant League won nearly 9 and former prime minister and media mogul Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia took 8. A much smaller member of the coalition, called the Moderates, took less than 1.
Meloni’s closest challenger, with some 19.3 of the vote, is the center-left Democratic Party headed by Enrico Letta, who has announced his resignation. Italy’s anti-establishment 5-Star Movement — which had won the vote in Italy’s 2018 parliamentary elections — saw its support halved to some 15 this time around.
Meloni, who is 45, is now poised to become Italy’s first female prime minister,...
- 9/26/2022
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
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