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Eyeing victory, Italian right rallies ahead of vote
France 24 ^

Posted on 09/22/2022 3:52:24 AM PDT by FarCenter

Italy's right-wing parties will stage a joint rally Thursday in a final push ahead of elections forecast to install a one-time fan of Mussolini as the country's first female prime minister.

Giorgia Meloni's eurosceptic, ultra-conservative Brothers of Italy was leading the last polls published two weeks before election day Sunday.

She and her allies, Matteo Salvini's anti-immigration League and ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia, look almost certain to form the first far-right led government in Rome since World War II.

The elections in Italy, the eurozone's third largest economy but plagued by weak growth, colossal debt and unstable politics, are being closely watched in Brussels.

Meloni has sought to reassure investors worried about her links with Italy's post-fascist movement, while at the same time wooing voters disaffected with the status quo.

"As Gandhi said, 'first they ignore you, then they mock you, then they fight you. Then you win," she tweeted Wednesday, with a photo of her fingers formed as a V for Victory.

(Excerpt) Read more at france24.com ...


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1 posted on 09/22/2022 3:52:24 AM PDT by FarCenter
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To: FarCenter
... first far-right led government in Rome since World War II.

No bias there, no-sirree.

May I presume Italian elections are not done the Chicago way?

2 posted on 09/22/2022 3:57:17 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: Salman

Fascism is a “far LEFT” ideology. Benito Mussolini was a communist before striking out on his own.


3 posted on 09/22/2022 4:02:21 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Salman
Italian Ministry of Interior Awards Accenture Contract to Maintain and Evolve Italian Voting System

Accenture had the contract through 2020. Why that's interesting, from 2021...

Accenture Federal Services Wins $729M U.S. Army Enterprise Resource Planning Contract

Still wondering what Christopher Steele was doing in Italy in 2016...

4 posted on 09/22/2022 4:02:39 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: FarCenter

Mustn’t mention that Italy is being flooded with illegal immigrants from that unmentionable continent to the south.


5 posted on 09/22/2022 4:05:03 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: Salman

I’ll assume Italian elections are done the Corleone way.....


6 posted on 09/22/2022 4:13:33 AM PDT by Jaysin (Trump can’t be beat, unless the democrats cheat)
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To: FarCenter
Wonder what happens when conservatives around the world get elected to leadership positions but government and social institutions are still completely dominated by Leftists?

Will these leaders get the Trump treatment?

7 posted on 09/22/2022 4:15:15 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: Chad C. Mulligan
Forgot The CHINESE bring shipped in by China .
Recall , these Chinese Infected the country with WUHAN Virus .
Cheap Chinese Labor have Overrun Milan ,
8 posted on 09/22/2022 4:15:16 AM PDT by ncalburt ( Gop DC Globalists are the evil )
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To: FarCenter

The West dies, held in check by its collective moral conscience, it refuses even to rally at the end of its existence.


9 posted on 09/22/2022 4:17:25 AM PDT by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Strange that a man with his wealth would have to resort to prostitution.)
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To: NorthMountain
Fascism is a “far LEFT” ideology ...

Back in the day, it was Stalin who decided who was left or right. Trotsky and various other Commies who angered him were "left deviationist" (too far left). Stalin was perfect. Everyone else was right wing, be it Mussolini or Hamilton Fish.

National Socialists in Germany were far right until September 1939, then they were OK left wing until June 1940, then far right again forever.

Something similar still operates, even though there isn't a charismatic big boss Communist father figure presiding.

10 posted on 09/22/2022 4:19:22 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: Salman

Yes ... the communists whether in America or elsewhere have arrogated to themselves the power to define “right” and “left”.

But facts are stubborn things.

Mussolini was a card-carrying commie; fascism was just his particular, Italian nationalist, take on communism.

Hitler was inspired by the ideology of Karl Marx. National socialism was his particular, German nationalist, take on Marxism.


11 posted on 09/22/2022 4:25:55 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: FarCenter

Totally biased reporting. She’s no fan of Mussolini. Italy was doing well under Matteo Salvini, until the democrat party conspired to get rid of him.


12 posted on 09/22/2022 4:37:50 AM PDT by I want the USA back (I hate the media. )
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To: FarCenter

As long as the EU exists, I’m very skeptical that ANY change in Italy can made, regardless of who is elected.

Brussels will ALWAYS be in charge.


13 posted on 09/22/2022 4:39:13 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Salman

Stalin was a “National Socialist”, he believed in “Socialism in One Country”, and Russian superiority over the other ethnic groups of the Soviet Union, despite being Georgian himself.


14 posted on 09/22/2022 4:42:38 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: FarCenter
Good for Italian Patriots...joining the club (no pun intended)

Brothers of Italy

Proud Boys

Angry Parents

Grumpy Grandads.

15 posted on 09/22/2022 5:06:10 AM PDT by spokeshave (Proud Boys, Angry Dads and Grumpy Grandads.)
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To: FarCenter

Answer: Read the article.

Question: What happens to a nation with a reproduction rate less than one.


16 posted on 09/22/2022 5:09:39 AM PDT by nagant
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To: I want the USA back

Italy wasn’t doing well.

It’s budget is a fiscal nightmare.

The EU has Italy by its short hairs because of that.

Since Italians have zero interest in living within their means, it’s really all about what the EU wants.

The PIIGS are circling the bowl again.

If the EU can’t get the UK back and/or scam enough money out of the US treasury to keep their ponzi scheme running, the EU may kick Italy to the curb.


17 posted on 09/22/2022 5:13:29 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: mewzilla

After travelling to Italy last year, I vow never to go back. The place is a dumpster fire. Make no mistake, Commies run the big cities.


18 posted on 09/22/2022 5:15:10 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: mewzilla

“Italians have zero interest in living within their means”

Northern Europeans like to be the work-horses carrying the load.

Southern Europeans like to be riding in the wagon.

;-)


19 posted on 09/22/2022 5:19:13 AM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: PGR88
Brussels will ALWAYS be in charge.

Brussels is NOT in charge in the UK.
Thank God for that.

20 posted on 09/22/2022 5:33:02 AM PDT by SmokingJoe ( )
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