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VIDEO. Italy: Giorgia Meloni, the ex-fan of Mussolini in the conquest of power

2022-09-12T16:44:36.610Z


Favorite to become the first female head of government in Italy, Giorgia Meloni, president of the Fratelli d'Italia (FDI) party, incar


Giorgia Meloni, president of the Fratelli d'Italia (FDI) party, is well placed to become Italy's first female head of government in the general elections on 25th September next.

His training, with post-fascist DNA, is credited with around 25% of the voting intentions.

This 45-year-old Roman, "Italian, mother, Christian" is trying to "de-demonize" the image of her party to take the post of President of the Council of Ministers.

"Giorgia Meloni is a pure politician: she has spent her entire career in Italian politics", explains Francesco Maselli, Italian journalist and correspondent for "L'Opinion".

Meloni and his party are the heirs of the Italian Social Movement (MSI), a neo-fascist party created after the Second World War.

At 19, she told the French channel France 3 that the dictator Benito Mussolini was "a good politician".

In 2006, she became a deputy and vice-president of the chamber.

Two years later, she was appointed Minister of Youth in the government of Silvio Berlusconi.

"She is very young, barely 30 years old," says Francesco Maselli.

In 2014, she founded her own party, Fratelli d'Italia.

“It was a very minority party but which has risen in recent years,

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In the 2018 legislative elections, FDI is content with just over 4% of the vote, but Giorgia Meloni has since managed to catalyze on her behalf the discontent and frustrations of the many Italians who say they are overwhelmed by the "dictates" of Brussels, the dear life and the precarious future of their children.

To gain respectability, Giorgia Meloni has begun work to demonize her party.

"She never says she's post-fascist", explains Francesco Maselli, according to whom the Roman sees herself rather "as a conservative".

“Today, she is at 25% of the voting intentions, she is no longer talking about leaving the euro.

She is not ambiguous with Russia, and she has avoided doing the family portrait with all the far-right parties in Europe, ”continues the journalist.

But Giorgia Meloni's program remains that of a far-right candidate, tempers the transalpine journalist.

His priorities?

Close the borders to protect Italy from "Islamization" and immigration as well as to renegotiate the European treaties so that Rome regains control of its destiny.

The coalition for the legislative elections, of which Giorgia Meloni is a part, is credited with 46% of the voting intentions.

But the post of President of the Council is not acquired for her: she will also have to overcome the pride of her two allies, Silvio Berlusconi (Forza Italia) and Matteo Salvini (League).

Source: leparis

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