Giorgia Meloni is set to become Italy’s first female Prime Minister and the first leader of a far-right neo-facist party to take office since the Second World War.
Giorgia Meloni, 45, who founded the Brothers of Italy Party, a far-right, neo-facist political organisation has won this year’s general election to be the country’s first female Prime Minister. She has been an active member of a neo-facist party since her teenage years.
In her campaign for office, she vowed to turn back migrant ships, “protect family values” and take anti-LGBTQ actions.
Many are uncertain what the country’s future will be as she is to be sworn into office due to her pro-conservative and facist beliefs.
She is the leader of a right-wing alliance of her party, the Brothers of Italy Party, is a prominent player and is stated as Italy’s most far-right party since the end of the Second World War. Her main supporters include former Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, who switched to the hard right in 2018, and former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, a member of the centre-right party.Both of whom are admirers of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
In a secretly recorded audio that was released to the public, the leaders can be heard saying that the Russian invasion of Ukraine was Kyiv’s fault and that they are satisfied that they were able to re-establish discord between the Italian government and the Russian leader.
But, a party spokesperson thrashed the comments, saying that there is no communication between the party and Russia and that the circulating audio was about an incident that happened in the past.
She has openly spoken about her controversial views. She has stated in a speech that she was not in support of people belonging to the LGBTQ spectrum, gender identity, and has expressed actions on mass migration and having strict borders.
She has also expressed anti-EU views against the “Bureaucrats in Brussels” and said that Italy should ditch the Euro.
She chose for the role of Italy’s family and birth rate minister, Eugenia Rocella, who has a pro-life view and also threatened to reverse the recently passed bill that enables same-sex couples to adopt.
At the age of nineteen, she, then a party activist, was recorded saying that Mussolini was a good politician and that the country had not had a strong leader like him in ages, according to a French TV channel.
But Meloni reassured her NATO allies and her fellow leaders in the EU that there would be no change in the country’s foreign policy.
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