The Italian Prime Minister’s party has no exact equivalents to the French far-right, though it is closer to Zemmour than to National Realignment
Far-right Marine Le Pen congratulated Giorgia Meloni and Matteo Salvini after they were sworn in as prime minister and deputy prime minister of Italy respectively. “Across Europe patriots are coming to power and with them this Europe of nations that we want,” the president of National Regrouping (former National Front) wrote on Twitter.
His rival, Éric Zemmour, leader of the far-right Reconquista party, also congratulated Meloni on the same social network on her appointment as president of the Italian Council of Ministers.
Marine Le Pen – daughter of far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the National Front – has run for president three times but, unlike Meloni, has failed to rise to power. Le Pen, 54, was defeated in April by Emmanuel Macron, who won 58.55% of the vote, compared to 41.45% for the far right in the second round of the French presidential election.
Although the two policies are often compared, Regrouping National is ideologically closer to Matteo Salvini’s La Liga than to the Brothers of Italy, the far-right party of the new Italian prime minister. Le Pen and Meloni, 45, have the same points. Both lead extreme right-wing parties. The two are suing Brussels and demanding strict immigration policies in their respective countries.
But there are also differences between them. The new head of the Italian government defends retirement at 67 years old. Le Pen, economically more protectionist, wants the French to receive a pension at the age of 62.
Meloni’s party, which uses the fascist slogan ‘God, country and family’, is ideologically more conservative than that of the French leader. Meloni, mother of one son, is against abortion, same-sex marriage and adoption by same-sex couples.
Divorced and a mother of three, the Regrouping National leader no longer questions the Veil law, which decriminalized abortion in France in 1975. Unlike her father, who viewed homosexuality as “a biological and social anomaly”, Le Pen promised during the last general campaign that if elected president “she would not deprive the French of any rights” and that same-sex marriage would remain legal. in the country.
Meloni and Zemmour have narrower political agendas. The leader of Reconquista, like Italian politics, is conservative from a social point of view and liberal in terms of his economic perspective. Meloni has managed to do in Italy what Zemmour dreamed of in France: a union of the right and the far right.
If you have to look for a Gallic figure to compare her to, Meloni might look more like Marion Maréchal, Le Pen’s niece and granddaughter of the founder of the Front National. Marion aged 32 and a muse of the most traditionalist far right, the young woman betrayed her aunt and supported Zemmour in the last election.
Marion Márechal, who no longer uses the surname Le Pen, does not think the Brothers of Italy are far-right, but a conservative party. Marine Le Pen’s niece is convinced Meloni’s takeover will “indirectly protect the French as she plans to launch a maritime blockade against the arrival of illegal immigrants” on Italy’s coasts and Europe.
Zemmour saw in the victory of the leader of the Brothers of Italy proof that “coming to power” for a party like his. The leader of Reconquista dreams that he and his group will succeed in taking power in France by 2027, just as Meloni has now done in Italy.
Source: La Verdad
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