The woman, according to Giorgia Meloni

2022-09-25T20:16:57.458Z

If she wins this Sunday, the far-right leader will claim her success as an example for Italian women. Although given the look of the "revolution" that she has promised to impose from power, perhaps she is the only one who wins

If the polls are correct and the right-wing coalition emerges victorious in Sunday's elections, Giorgia Meloni, the candidate of the neo-fascist Brothers of Italy party, could become the first woman to win the presidency of the Italian Council.

A historical fact in a country in which women continue to be underrepresented both in politics and in institutions: of the 20 regions, only one is chaired by a woman.

While some far-right leaders such as Marine Le Pen have chosen to pretend to be feminists in front of the media in order to conquer power and have thus managed to reverse the gender gap in the vote, Meloni, in the style of Vox, does not hide that execrates feminism and its fight for equality.

Io sono Giorgia

: “I am a woman, I am a mother, I am Italian, I am a Christian, and they will not take it away from me”.

Relying on powerful

storytelling

that has been unraveling throughout the campaign, politics has wanted to print the image of a strong self-made woman.

In short, if she is today at the gates of Palazzo Chigi it is due to her own “merit” and thanks to an unusual “bravery”.

Meloni believes in the effort and not in the gender quotas that she calls "ghettos" for women.

In that feminalism, which depoliticizes gender inequality by denying the existence of structures that oppress women, male domination does not exist.

Although she acknowledges that they may run into some “resistance” and certain “stereotypes” from time to time, she affirms that competing on equal terms with men “is not difficult” and is also “fun”.

Blindness or pure cynicism, the truth is that it works electorally.

Even when he dares to deny that there is structural sexist violence and that it occurs mostly in the intimate sphere, as evidenced by his reaction a few weeks ago to the rape of a Ukrainian woman by an asylum seeker.

In the electoral program of the coalition with Matteo Salvini and Silvio Berlusconi, sexist violence is dealt with in the chapter dedicated to security and immigration.

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The leader of the Brothers of Italy has announced in a campaign "the plan to support the family and the most important birth rate in history."

The promise has a lot to do with her personal history: she tells in her autobiography that she owes everything to her mother, who was about to have an abortion after being abandoned by her husband and had "the courage ” to make the “right” decision.

She also has a very specific conception of women, perceived essentially as a mother, the extension of the nation and of the Italian identity at risk of disappearing, threatened by “mass immigration” and “the LGTBI lobby”.

For Meloni, it is the duty of the State to accompany women in this role of reproducers, providing Italian families with "a welfare State

made-to-measure” made up of economic aid and “an extraordinary plan for free nurseries” with extended hours, even during the summer.

The objective: to reactivate both the birth rate and female employment, and above all, to dissuade women from having abortions without having to touch the famous Law 194 approved in 1978 by the Italian Parliament.

Faced with the fear that this conception has aroused during the campaign, after the precedent of the United States, Meloni has stated repeatedly that he would not repeal that law.

It does not mention, however, the increasingly frequent obstacles encountered by women who want to interrupt their pregnancy in the regions governed by the Brothers of Italy, a formation "through whose arteries fascism still circulates", according to the formula of the historian Stephanie Prezioso.

In Meloni's program, work-life balance exempts the man from any responsibility or role.

In her autobiography, she makes a truly significant description of her family life, together with the father of her seven-year-old daughter, the journalist Andrea Giambruno, with whom she is not married despite claiming to be a fervent Catholic. .

Although she begins by saying that they form a team, shortly after the story progresses she confesses that she doesn't mind being the one in charge of almost all the housework ―“order relaxes [her]”, she confesses― because when she sends something to her partner , this "is even able to iron shirts if necessary", always shows a good disposition...

If she emerges victorious this Sunday, the far-right leader will most likely vindicate her success as an example for Italian women, that of a woman of humble extraction, raised in the Roman neighborhood of Garbatella, a worker like few others and who has managed to reach what highest point of the convulsive Italian politics without relinquishing her role as mother of a family.

Although given the look of the "revolution" that she has promised to impose from power, perhaps she is the only woman who wins.