‘We’ve tried them all, except Meloni’: Far-right leader tipped to become Italy’s first female PM

France 24 ^

[FarCenter]

As yet unaffected by the slings and arrows of governing, Giorgia Meloni is poised to carry her hard-right Brothers of Italy (Fratelli d’Italia) party to victory in Italy’s general election on September 25, putting her in the running to become the country’s first female prime minister.

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The speaker, Giorgia Meloni, is the leader of Brothers of Italy (Fratelli d’Italia or FdI), a far-right outfit that has emerged from its south-central power base to become a dominant force all the way up to the Alps. At 45, she is the favourite to become Italy’s first female prime minister after the country’s general election on September 25.

Pollsters predict Meloni’s party will emerge as Italy’s largest, taking a quarter of the vote – a more than fivefold increase from its score at the last general election in 2018. She is set to leapfrog her better-known right-wing allies Matteo Salvini and the seemingly eternal Silvio Berlusconi, easily surpassing their combined tallies.

With Italy’s convoluted electoral law favouring broad coalitions, the three right-wing parties are on course to trounce the fractured centre-left, potentially handing a Meloni-led government a majority large enough to change Italy’s constitution.

“Come election time, the right always finds a way to pull together,” said Francesco Trevisi, a pensioner from faraway Lecce, in the heel of Italy, as he wound up his passeggiata in Milan’s central square.

He offered a simple explanation for the far-right leader’s astonishing surge: “She’s the only one we haven’t tried yet – which means she’s the only one yet to fail.”

[dfwgator]

[vpintheak]

So a far-right in Europe is a lilly-livered RINO type at best. Is that better then a straight up pinko? Maybe.

[devane617]

I hope this is good.

[Williams]

She’s not hard right except that the journalists are of course Communist.

And the right wing party’s one last time they just used a coalition to keep them out of power.They won every single region in Italy including the most left wing regions like Bologna.

This should have happened last time and hopefully it’s going to happen now.

Only the idiotic leftists can stand for the absurd invasion of Italy from North Africa.

The left also Crippled Italy on energy. They did things like banning a nuclear power plant so then it got built over the border and Italy has to buy the electricity at exorbitant rates.

But they write an article that says the reason the Italians are voting this way is just because they’ve tried everything else. Total BS.

[srmanuel]

Sort of like the Italian version of Marine Le Pen, plus she’s not bad looking as well, not some hag like Merkel.

Italy is so screwed up, why not elect a rightwing woman, she just might be the one to turn it around.

[dfwgator]

In Europe, a Leftist believe in Marx and Lenin. A rightist just believes in Marx.

[ground_fog]

I have never seen a journalist use far left. Amazing. They don’t like her so I will like her until I don’t

[gibsonguy]

+1

[pierrem15]

Meloni is doing well because she appears to be the only major politician not on the take.

When the center-right semi-populist parties won last time, their leadership was bribed by the ECB to put the globalist technocrat Mario Draghi in power as PM.

Italy was effectively deprived of an elected government by an EU coup.

[dfwgator]

Hell

The food is British
The cars are French
The police are German
The lovers are Swiss

And the whole thing is run by Italians

[Gaffer]

What is her stance on Muslim incursion and immigration?

[beaversmom]

She sounds pretty good to me:

From Yahoo:

Charismatic and driven, the 45-year-old Meloni, a parliamentarian, doesn’t hold a university degree, but as head of Fratelli d’Italia (Brothers of Italy), a far-right-wing party she formed a decade ago, the single mother has campaigned on a platform based on her belief in the virtues of God, motherhood and patriotism, while decrying immigration and LGBTQ rights. Polls show her and Brothers of Italy poised for victory in a Sept. 25 parliamentary election that will determine Italy’s next prime minister.

While many conservatives cheer her ascent — and the idea of the first woman to rule Italy — her candidacy has simultaneously raised concerns among Italians about racism and the future of abortion in the country as well as Italy’s role in the European Union.

“The secular left and radical Islam are menacing our [European] roots,” she told the crowd, adding that no middle ground was possible.

“Yes to natural families! No to LGBT lobbies! Yes to sexual identity! No to gender ideology!” she yelled, whipping up supporters. “Yes to the universality of the cross, no to Islamist violence! Yes to secure borders, no to mass immigration!”

Broder sees the party’s abortion politics as “heavily linked to the immigration issue.” Meloni, he pointed out, “says that the Italian people are at risk of extinction. And that giving citizenship to the children of immigrants is part of the ethnic substitution of the Italian population.”

[SunkenCiv]

"Far right", oh heavens to Betsy.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgia_Meloni

Her political career is enough to make your head spin, and well worth a read. Of course, it being Italian politics, “If it’s Tuesday, it must be time to form a new party.”

[Jeff Vader]

yup, not seeing any red flags or ties to klaus schwab/wef crowd

[BigEdLB]

Charismatic and driven, the 45-year-old Meloni, a parliamentarian, doesn’t hold a university degree, but as head of Fratelli d’Italia (Brothers of Italy), a far-right-wing party she formed a decade ago, the single mother has campaigned on a platform based on her belief in the virtues of God, motherhood and patriotism, while decrying immigration and LGBTQ rights. Polls show her and Brothers of Italy poised for victory in a Sept. 25 parliamentary election that will determine Italy’s next prime minister.
from the post below yours...

[BigEdLB]

7am: Polls open. Barring those residing abroad, voters can only cast their ballot in the municipality (comune) in which they are legally registered to vote and at the specific polling station assigned to them.
Voters will need to turn up at their polling station with a valid identity document and their tessera elettorale (voting card).
READ ALSO: Italian ballot papers: What they look like and how to vote
Also, mobile phones cannot be taken into the voting booths and need to be left with the polling station staff.
11pm: Polls close and counting starts immediately after.
Ballot papers for the election of the Senate are counted first. Counting agents turn to the Chamber of Deputies’ ballots only after the first procedure has been completed.
11.30pm: The first exit polls from the country’s leading news media should be out by now. Though generally fairly accurate, polls should not be relied upon blindly – see the 2013 exit poll debacle, for example.

Voters are required to turn up at their local polling station with a valid ID and their own voting card (‘tessera elettorale’). Photo by Andreas SOLARO / AFP READ ALSO: Italy’s right confident of election win at last rallies before vote 2am-3am (Monday, September 26th): This is generally when the first official projections based on data from polling stations start coming in. These protections are of course usually much more reliable than the exit polls.

8am onwards: Barring a neck and neck contest, a fairly accurate overview of the election’s results should be available by Monday morning.
Naturally, much depends also on the total number of ballots to be counted.

In 2018, Italy recorded its worst-ever election turnout, with only 73 percent of Italians choosing to cast their vote.

[BigEdLB]

Voters will need to turn up at their polling station with a valid identity document and their tessera elettorale (voting card).
Better chance for an honest election. The left is not pleased about this