The center-right coalition of Giorgia Meloni, Matteo Salvini and Silvio Berlusconi won the parliamentary elections in Italy on Sunday. The reactions of the Austrian parties are very diverse. As for the SPÖ and the Greens, the enthusiasm within the FPÖ knows no bounds. “Italians are taking back their country. Bravissimo,” Liberal MEP Harald Vilimsky said on Twitter.
“The Italians have clearly rejected the EU establishment around Commission President von der Leyen, which is pushing the centralization of the Union to a ‘United States of Europe’ over the minds of the citizens and sending a strong signal for a Europe of peoples and peoples. Nationally minded,” Vilimsky said in a broadcast afterwards.
“Patriotic Alliance is also an important partner for the FPÖ”
The patriotic alliance’s victory also ensures that the new Italian government acts decisively against illegal mass immigration to Europe and thus also represents an important partner for the FPÖ.
Vilimsky’s party colleague Christian Ragger reacted in a similar way. “The Italian people have re-elected their protagonists and representatives, thereby also sending the desire for change to Europe,” said the blue member of the National Council, who is also chairman of the Austria-Italy parliamentary group.
Schieder: “Meloni government will limit the EU’s ability to act”
“This is not good news for Italy nor for Europe,” the head of the SPÖ delegation to the EU parliament, Andreas Schieder, said in a broadcast. It is precisely in times of crisis like this that Italy needs stability. “Under a far-right government like this, that is certainly not guaranteed. At the same time, a government under Giorgia Meloni will also limit the EU’s ability to act.”
Greens: Meloni could be disastrous for Europe
The co-leader of the European Greens, Austrian Thomas Waitz, told the “Welt” that the EU can only function if it sticks together, for example in cooperation on energy markets, in decisions on sanctions against Russia or in dealing with the coronavirus. Crisis. “Meloni, on the other hand, would rely on national solo efforts, it could turn out to be a disaster for Europe.”
‘Meloni is right-wing extremist’
Michel Reimon, European spokesman for the Austrian Greens, found equally sharp words. “Meloni is a right-wing extremist, and that’s what it should be called when she becomes Italy’s next head of government. But that’s when the EU shouldn’t play its political game.”
Center-right block clearly ahead
According to projections by the public broadcaster RAI on Monday, the center-right camp will have 232 to 252 of the 400 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 114 to 126 of the 200 seats in the Senate. As expected, the united right-wing bloc won many of the first-past-the-post seats.
Meloni’s post-fascist party, the Brothers of Italy (FdI – Fratelli d’Italia), will likely be the strongest single party with nearly 26 percent of the vote. For the former minor party, which won 4.4 percent in the 2018 parliamentary elections, it is a landslide victory.
Source: Krone
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