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Sunday’s Italian parliamentary elections should make history as a right-wing candidate who campaigned on a nationalist platform is expected to become the country’s first female prime minister.
The Italians will go to the polls on Sunday to elect a new parliament and determine who will govern the next country. Polls predict that the country’s Brothers of Italy party will take 25% of the votes on Sunday and elect party leader Giorgia Meloni as the country’s first female prime minister.
“I am Giorgia, I am a woman, I am a mother, I am Italian, I am Christian”, Giorgia Meloni told fans in the center of Rome at a time of viral demonstration in 2019, according to France 24. “Nobody will take it away from me” .
The Brothers of Italy party is described as a conservative, right-wing populist political party that has seen a skyrocketing rise in popularity since 2018, when it just received 4% of the vote, according to Reuters.
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Giorgia Meloni, leader of the Brothers of Italy party, takes a selfie during a demonstration in Piazza Duomo ahead of the early elections on September 25, in Milan, September 11, 2022.
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Political commentators have described the Brothers of Italy party as “neo-fascist” and Meloni’s potential victory would have marked the country’s most right-wing government since World War II.
Meloni campaigned on a platform to crack down on illegal immigration by launching a blockade to patrol the Mediterranean, cutting taxes and protecting traditional family values.
He claims the European Union is too bureaucratic, but said he would not push for any “Italexit” and describes himself as a staunch supporter of NATO. She mobilizes against what she calls LGBT “lobbies” and promotes a “Christian identity” in Europe.
“My greatest desire is to rise again, to lift our nation out of decline,” Meloni, 45, told Reuters in a recent interview.
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Leader of the Brothers of Italy party, Giorgia Meloni arrives by car to attend a political rally in Rome, January 23, 2018. Photo taken on January 23, 2018.
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Center for European Reform analyst Luigi Scazzieri told Voice of America that Meloni’s rise in popularity is attributed to his political and economic views, as well as his “down-to-earth” approach to voters.
“In part it’s about his political platform, his socially conservative views, his economic views, which are also quite social in terms, for example, of increasing people’s pensions or benefits,” said analyst Luigi Scazzieri of the Center for European Reform.
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The photo shows the skyline of Rome, Italy.
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“But it is also largely due to his personal appeal. And I would like to highlight here, for example, his way of speaking, which is very simple. He is very effective in connecting with ordinary voters,” added Scazzieri. “Finally, she also benefits from not having been even remotely close to the government for the past 10 years, and so she can credibly say that she represents something new.”
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Meloni’s main electoral rival is Enrico Letta, 56, leader of the Democratic Party, the main Italian center-left force.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
