Rome: September 25 elections won by a right-wing three-party bloc led by a radical woman. Europe will sweat.
If it were up to her, she would become Italy’s first female prime minister. The woman of strong statements, Giorgia Meloni (45), actually has the best chances of succeeding Mario Draghi after the September 25 elections.
A worse political rift in Rome cannot be imagined: on “Mr. Europe” follows an EU-skeptical politician with fascist roots. “In Brussels they will still mourn the good old days under Orban,” predicts an editor in Rome. Despite her 45 years, Giorgia Meloni is a politician with a long career. At the age of 15 she joined the neo-fascist “Youth Front”; according to her own statement, because she was tired of corruption in Italy. She did her vocational training in a hotel school and said she worked as a waitress, barmaid and babysitter.
In 1996 she was elected head of the student organization the “Alleanza Nazionale”, which she said had turned her back on fascism. Here and there it can still happen that at festive events the hand goes up in the “Roman salute”. In 2004, she became president of the entire youth section of the party.
In 2006 she joined parliament. Next career leap: youngest Vice-President of the Chamber of Deputies. Two years later, she is the youngest Minister of Youth and Sports under Berlusconi. Dissatisfied with Berlusconi’s leadership style, she and colleagues founded the Fratelli d’Italia (Brothers of Italy). Meloni stayed away from Mario Draghi’s multi-party government. According to opinion polls, she made the Fratelli the strongest party in the opposition.
Their credo: right-wing fundamentalism
Meloni runs as a right block along with Berlusconi’s Forza and Salvini’s Lega. The woman with the strong statements succinctly outlines her government program:
“Yes to the natural family, no to the LGBT lobby”,
“Yes to the culture of life, no to abortions”
“Yes to Christian Principles, No to Islamism”
“Yes to secure borders, no to mass immigration”
“Yes to our fellow citizens, no to the international financial lobby”,
“Yes to the independence of the peoples, no to the bureaucrats in Brussels”.
These are tones that will give our European partners a lot of headaches. The EU is going from bad to worse.
Source: Krone
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