His first political commitment, at age 15, was under the banner of the Italian Social Movement (MSI), the heir to fascism.
At 45, Giorgia Meloni is now at the head of an electoral coalition now in a position to win the next legislative elections on September 25.
Fratelli d'Italia, a formation she founded in 2012 on the ashes of post-fascism, is leading the latest polls (23%) and peaks at 45% of voting intentions if we add her allies from Matteo Salvini's League and Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia.
While the coalition government led by Mario Draghi is going through a crisis, the legislative elections scheduled for 2023 have been brought forward to the beginning of the fall.
And everything seems to indicate that it is Meloni who is about to succeed him.
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