It is an explosion in Europe.
Fratelli d'Italia has won the Italian legislative elections, according to the first exit polls.
The leader of the party, Giorgia Meloni, therefore seems well on her way to leading a coalition and becoming Prime Minister of Italy.
A total of 50 million Italian voters were called to the polls.
At just 45, Giorgia Meloni is now the favorite to lead a coalition government in which the far right would largely dominate the classical right.
An earthquake on the scale of Italy, founding country of the European Community and third economy of the euro zone, but also of the EU, which should deal with this ideologue close to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
“In Europe, they are all worried to see Meloni in government (…) The party is over, Italy will start defending its national interests,” warned Giorgia Meloni during her campaign.
This ex-fan of Mussolini, whose motto is "God, fatherland, family", succeeded in demonizing her party and catalyzing on her behalf the discontent and frustrations of her compatriots by resolutely opposing the government of national unity. by Mario Draghi.
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A difficult context for Giorgia Meloni
But the path of the future government already appears to be strewn with pitfalls.
He will have to manage the crisis caused by soaring prices while Italy is crumbling under a debt representing 150% of GDP, the highest ratio in the euro zone behind Greece.
In this context, the windfall of the European post-pandemic recovery plan, of which Italy is by far the first beneficiary, will be essential to keep the peninsula afloat.
"Italy cannot afford to deprive itself of these sums of money", observes the historian Marc Lazar, therefore judging "very limited the room for maneuver of Meloni" on the economy.
On the other hand, it could scrap against Brussels alongside Warsaw and Budapest “on questions of defending the national interest in relation to European interests”.