VIDEO. "God, fatherland and family": meeting the voters of Giorgia Meloni, the far-right candidate at the gates of power in Italy

Several hundred activists gathered on Thursday Piazza del Popolo, in the center of Rome, to support their candidate: Giorgia Meloni, 45-year-old Roman, the ultra-conservative, nationalist and identitarian who could take the head of the Council of Ministers.

The “center-right” coalition of which she is the star is credited with more than 40% of the votes according to the latest polls.

On the People's Square floated Thursday evening the flags in the colors of Fratelli d'Italia, the party founded by Giorgia Meloni, and an air of near victory.

Among the supporters of this former admirer of Mussolini, young people excited and in search of national "pride", gathered for the most part in the youth movement of Fratelli d'Italia, "Gioventù nazionale".

“Me, I see a form of embarrassment in exhibiting a certain “Italianness”,

deplores Andrea Piepoli, 26, a member of the national executive of this movement, who says he has adhered to Meloni's ideas since his adolescence.

For Francesco, a student who proudly brandishes the flag of Fratelli d'Italia, "we have lost traditions".

The 20-year-old explains that he wants to vote for Meloni to rediscover “this pride in being Italian”.

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A few steps from him, Monica and Marco, two sixty-something friends, are hoping for a historic moment on Sunday, if Meloni wins.

"I come from this world which gave its symbol to Fratelli d'Italia", that is to say a tricolor flame, maintains Marco.

The duo of friends first explains that they began to act in the Movimento sociale italiano (MSI), a post-war neo-fascist movement, through which Meloni also passed, before joining the Roman in Alleanza Nazionale, the first party that she founded.

“Maybe finally we will have the first female president of the Council of Ministers!

enthuses Monica.

On his sign, Francesco, retired, deplores these "desperate boats" arriving "from Africa".

“Now I vote Meloni.

I hope she will keep her promises, otherwise, that means I won't vote anymore”.