Both are in their mid-40s, both have been involved in politics since a young age, both have moved from party to party during their political careers, both are defining themselves today and both may become prime minister this September: Georgia Maloney, leader of the right-wing nationalist party "The Brothers" of Italy", and Liz Truss, the British Foreign Secretary.
While Strass - who is currently running in a crucial round of internal elections for the leadership of the Conservative Party following the forced retirement of Boris Johnson - could be the third woman to lead a British government, Maloney is hoping to make history by becoming the first woman to lead a government in Italy in the snap general election on September 25 .
Experts on Italian politics wonder if the Italians are ready to choose a woman for the complex and complicated executive position.
But, according to the latest polls, Maloney's party leads over the other parties with about 23% support.
If Maloney forms a joint front with the other two right-wing parties - Matteo Salvini's "League" and former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's "Forza Italia" - the front may win 45% of all votes and perhaps even an absolute majority.
In such a case, the leader of the largest party is expected to demand the prime ministership.
Taras's chances of becoming prime minister are also not guaranteed, since the one who has led so far in the previous rounds of the preliminary elections for the leadership of the party is former finance minister Rishi Sunak, a member of a family of Indian immigrants from Kenya, who initiated the successful putsch to overthrow Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who will retire from his post When the winner of the Conservative leadership will be announced at the beginning of September.
Maloni, 45, has already made history, when she was appointed about 15 years ago as the youngest minister in the history of Italy in Berlusconi's fourth government.
She was then 31 years old and served as the Minister of Youth and Sports.
But it is her most distant past that may pose obstacles to her race to the top: as a girl Maloney was a member of the neo-fascist organization "The Italian Social Movement", and later as a student she was one of the leaders of the student organization of the "National Alliance", which was born from the ranks of the Italian social movement but distanced itself from the fascist ideology.
The symbol of her party is the ever-burning fire on the grave of Italy's fascist leader, Duce Benito Mussolini.
Two of Mussolini's descendants ran in the name of the "Brothers of Italy" in the elections for the Council of Rome and the elections for the European Parliament, where Maloney serves as the chairman of the "Conservatives and Reformers" faction of parties, which includes the Polish ruling party, the Swedish Democratic Party - which has neo-Nazi roots, and the Spanish nationalist right-wing party. Vox.'
Granddaughter Rashel Mussolini still serves on the city council.
Maloney believes that Mussolini was a "complex figure" that must be seen in the historical context and demands that she be asked questions about contemporary politics and not about history.
The main points of her party's platform are: yes to the family, no to the LGBT lobby;
Yes to life, no to discrimination;
Yes to the principles of Christianity, no to the violence of Islam;
Yes to secure borders, no to mass immigration;
Yes to the interests of Italian citizens, not to the world of international capital;
Yes to the independence of the nations, no to officials from Brussels.
Terras, 46, is the daughter of left-wing parents, who in her youth was active in the ranks of the center-left liberal-democratic party and joined the conservative party in her years as a student.
In the last decade she held a number of different positions in the various conservative governments - Minister of Women and Equality, Minister of Foreign Trade, Minister of Justice and last year Minister of Foreign Affairs.
If in the past she opposed "Brexit" (that is, Britain's departure from the European Union), then today she is considered to be close in her worldview to Margaret Thatcher and also maintained a stubborn loyalty to Johnson.
This position could be avenged in the elections for the leadership of the party, which are currently held by mail among its functionaries, if the members of the party decide to express their appreciation to those who started the final and decisive rebellion against Johnson.
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