After learning about the victory of the far right in Italy at the hands of the Brothers of Italy (FdI), we take a look at the profile of its leader, Giorgia Meloni, during the key moments of his career.
Far-right Giorgia Meloni, 45, is on track to become the first woman to chair a government in Italy after the resounding victory of his party, Brothers from Italy (FdI, for its acronym in Italian: Fratelli d’Italia), and the right-wing coalition leading in Sunday’s elections, according to the first forecast of the results.
These are the most important moments of his career:
1977
Meloni was born in Rome. Her mother, Anna, had to raise her alone, along with her older sister, Arianna, after their father left them and went to live in the Canary Islands (Spain).
1992
At the age of 15, he joined the Youth Front, the youth organization of the former Italian Social Movement (MSI), a neo-fascist party founded in 1946 by followers of the late dictator Benito Mussolini.
1996
Responsible for the student movement of the Alianza Nacional (AN) party, the new face of the MSI. In a French television program France 3 he states: “Mussolini was a good politician, everything he did, he did for Italy.”
1998
She is elected Councilor for the Province of Rome by AN, led by Gianfranco Fini.
2004
She is appointed president of Acción Jovenes, the youth wing of AN, becoming the first female president of a right-wing youth organization.
2006
Elected deputy to AN, she is appointed Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies at the age of 29.
2008
Elected Minister of Youth in the government of conservative Silvio Berlusconi, the youngest in Republican history.
2012
He founded the Brothers of Italy (FdI), the new heirs to the MSI, after leaving Berlusconi’s party, but kept him as an ally, along with Matteo Salvini’s sovereign Northern League, for the 2013 elections.
2014
She becomes president of FdI.
2016
She is a candidate for mayor of Rome.
2018
In the general election, it gained 4.3% and FdI became the fifth party in the country.
2019
Her statement at a rally – “I’m Giorgia, I’m a woman, a mother, an Italian and a Christian and they won’t take it from me” – becomes a hit with young people after being remastered with electronic music.
2021
FdI is the only opposition party to the government of national unity of Mario Draghi.
2022
June 13th
At a meeting of the Spanish far-right formation Vox in Marbella, he clarified his political ideal: “There are no possible mediations, they say yes or no. Yes to the natural family, no to the LGBT lobby; yes to sexual identity, no to the ideology of gender; yes to the culture of life, no to the abyss of death; yes to the universality of the cross, no to Islamic violence; yes to secure borders, no to mass immigration”.
10 August
In the middle of the election campaign, he sends a video in English, French and Spanish to distance himself from fascism: “The Italian right has relegated fascism to history for decades and unequivocally condemned the deprivation of democracy and the infamous anti-Jewish laws. And, of course, our condemnation of Nazism and Communism is unequivocal.”
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Source: EITB
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