The new winner of the election defends that her party, Fratelli d’Italia, has overcome the nostalgia of fascism
Giorgia Meloni was born by the hair. Her mother, who already had another daughter, had decided to abort her because she had ended the relationship with her father, who would eventually leave the family. The woman seemed so convinced that she even showed up fasting at the clinic where they were going to interrupt her pregnancy, but at the last minute she changed her mind, crossed the street and chose to enter a bar, where she had a cappuccino. and a croissant for breakfast and to celebrate the birth of her second daughter. This anecdote and many others are told by Meloni herself in ‘I am Giorgia’, the book in which the leader of the far-right Fratelli d’Italia (FdI, Brothers of Italy) party presents her most humane side, thus trying to make her white. . the neo-fascist past of its political formation.
The strategy has been a success, as FdI won the parliamentary elections this Sunday by a wide margin, according to the first vote forecasts, and will have an absolute majority in Parliament, along with the other forces of the conservative bloc: Matteo Salvini’s League, Forza Italia by Silvio Berlusconi and the small centre-right group Noi Moderati. Meloni had already gritted his teeth in June last year, when he became the first party in the country in voting intent, surpassing the Salvini League, which has eaten the ground among right-wing voters. Its success is partly explained by being the only opposition vote for the last year and a half against the Mario Draghi government, which was supported by a very broad coalition that included the League and Forza Italia.
But who is Giorgia Meloni? She explained it to the Spaniards in October last year, when she took part in a political act in Madrid by Vox, a party with which she shares a faction in the European Parliament. In Spanish, she roared while beating her chest: “I’m Giorgia, I’m a woman, I’m a mother, I’m Italian, I’m a Christian! They can’t take it from me!” So Meloni translated into Spanish the phrase into Italian that has brought him the most success in his political career so far. After uttering them at a rally, these words became a musical in 2019 success after two young Milanese DJs laid an electronic foundation on it, Meloni was far from shocked by it, but knew how to ride the wave of popularity to his advantage.
The FdI leader, 45 years old and raised in the Roman neighborhood of Garbatella, has been in politics since early childhood, when she was part of the student movement of the National Alliance party, heir to the neo-fascist MSI formation. Tired of remembering those roots, Meloni again and again defends the re-foundation that she believes has completed the Italian far right. “There is no fascist, racist or anti-Semitic nostalgia in the FdI DNA. There is no room for this. In our DNA is the rejection of every regime from the past, present and future. And there is nothing in my life, nor in the history of the law I represent, that I should be ashamed of or apologize for,” he said in an interview with Corriere della Sera.
Despite these words, there is no shortage of signs that in the ranks of the Italian right there are still those who continue to view fascism with good eyes. Cases of leaders being publicly discovered by giving the Nazi salute or praising Benito Mussolini or Adolf Hitler are common. Meloni also refuses to remove the ‘tricolor flame’, symbol of the MSI, the formation from which FdI originates, from his party’s shield.
The one called to become the first woman to lead a government in Italy has preferred to favor these issues, which provoke aversion among the moderate voter, and has focused her strategy in recent months on criticizing of the Draghi government. Politically, it was the easiest position, as the other parties in parliament were part of the very broad coalition led by the former president of the European Central Bank. Meloni was thus released from all the opposition territory, which he managed to take advantage of to grow his party also in the north of the country, a historic bastion of the League, and not just in the center and south, where it had previously achieved a better return.
“In addition to Meloni being the only political force not in government, allowing him to entice League or 5-Star Movement voters who are dissatisfied with the decisions of the executive, Meloni is also successful because of his personal abilities. . She is a direct woman with a very clear point of view: critique of globalization, which manifests itself in things like immigration and relocation,” said Marco Almagisti, professor of political science at the University of Padua.
Source: La Verdad
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