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Italy has voted in elections that will have enormous European significance.
The extreme right triumphs in elections marked by the lowest turnout in the history of democracy in the country, with almost 64% of voters of the total census, nine points less than in 2018. With more than 95% of the counted districts, Giorgia Meloni's far-right Brothers of Italy party reached 26% of the vote.
“We are not a point of arrival, but a starting point.
(...) Italy has chosen us and we will not betray it”, Meloni celebrated.
Together, the right-wing coalition (with HdI, the League and Forza Italia) adds 44% of the votes.
The former prime minister and leader of Forza Italia, Silvio Berlusconi, about to turn 86, wins a seat in the Senate by obtaining an overwhelming majority (more than 50%) in the Monza college.
The tycoon had been expelled from Parliament in 2013, after two decades of continuous presence, after a four-year prison sentence for tax fraud.
The coalition headed by the Democratic Party adds up to 26% of the total, while the 5-Star Movement reaches 15%.
Civil commitment, the formation founded by the acting Foreign Minister, Luigi Di Maio, fails and its leader stays out of Parliament.
03:00
Meloni: "Italy has chosen us, we will not betray it"
The leader of the Brothers of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, celebrates the election results, early Monday morning, in Rome.
Photo: Gianluca Battista
The extreme right wins the elections for the first time in Italy
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Emma Bonino's party is out of Parliament
A historical figure in Italian politics, Emma Bonino, 74, will be left out of Parliament after her formation + Europe failed to overcome the barrier of 3% of the votes necessary to have parliamentary representation in the general elections held on Sunday.
When there are few sections left to scrutinize, + Europe, the party he founded after his departure from the Radical Party, with whom he entered Parliament at the age of 28 in 1978, has remained at 2.95%.
The Italian senator and former Foreign Minister was a candidate in one of the north-central neighborhoods of Rome, considered one of the very few safe because never, in the last electoral consultations, had the center-right managed to win there.
In this school, the councilor of the City Council, of the Brothers of Italy, Lavinia Mennuni, has prevailed.
(Eph)
08:11
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The roadmap for the formation of the new Italian Government
The formation of the Executive could take between four and six weeks, according to the precedents.
These are the steps to follow:
- Proclamation of parliamentarians:
after the final count, which may take a few days, those elected to the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate are officially proclaimed with the new numbers, following the reduction in seats: from 945 to 600 (400 deputies and 200 senators).
- First session of the Chambers:
the new Chambers must take office on October 13 and then, after the formation of the different parliamentary groups, with the first official step of the new legislature, it will be the election of the new presidents of the Chamber and the Senate.
- Consultations of the Head of State:
the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, begins consultations to decide who to entrust with the mandate of forming the new Government.
Consultations normally start a month after the elections but, given the very tight deadlines, Mattarella could start his talks in mid-October.
- Assignment to the Prime Minister:
although on other occasions this assignment may come after several rounds of consultations between the political parties, it is expected that this time, given the overwhelming victory of the right-wing coalition, there will be no problems for Mattarella to come up with a person who will be commissioned to form a government.
- Appointment of the prime minister:
immediately afterwards, that same day or the following day, the head of state appoints a new prime minister and a new Executive.
- Swearing-in of the Government:
the next day, or even a few hours later, the President of the Government and the ministers are sworn in at the Quirinal Palace before the President of the Republic.
- Investiture vote:
one or two days later, after the first meeting of the Executive, the prime minister presents his programmatic speech before the Chambers to request the investiture vote.
(Eph)
07:54
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France will be attentive to "respect for human rights and abortion" in Italy
The French Prime Minister, Élisabeth Borne, warned this Monday that she will be "attentive to respect for human rights and abortion" in Italy after the triumph of Giorgia Meloni's party, Brothers of Italy, in the legislative elections held on Sunday.
"Obviously we will be careful that these values on human rights, on respect for others, in particular respect for the right to abortion, are respected by everyone," Borne said in an interview on the BFMTV television channel.
(AFP)
07:38
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Stock markets fall, the euro weakens and the pound is trading at lows, in full hangover from the Italian elections
European markets digest the results of the elections in Italy.
The success of the extreme right of Giorgia Meloni and the ease of the victory of the conservative bloc (Brothers of Italy, Matteo Salvini's League and Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia) was already anticipated in the polls and therefore does not have a strong impact on the stock markets .
However, the radical turn of the Italian government, in a context of economic uncertainty, with the war in Ukraine still far from being resolved, does not reassure investors.
The European stock markets have started the week with declines.
The worst part is taken by the Ftse Mib, which loses more than 3%.
The rest of the indices registered more moderate decreases which, in the case of the Ibex, were 0.5%.
In the image, from
Altea Textile
(Efe), panels of the Spanish Stock Exchange.
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07:22
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Abascal and Olona congratulate themselves on Meloni's victory and compete for who is closest to the winner of the Italian elections
By
Miguel Gonzalez
Spain already has two faces of the extreme right, like France (Marine Le Pen and Éric Zemmour) or Italy itself (Giorgia Meloni and Matteo Salvini).
The victory of the Brothers of Italy has been celebrated both by Vox and by the person who, until the end of July, was one of its most outstanding leaders, the former candidate for the Junta de Andalucía Macarena Olona.
Through social networks, Santiago Abascal has written: “Tonight, millions of Europeans have their hopes pinned on Italy.
Giorgia Meloni has shown the way for a Europe that is proud, free and made up of sovereign nations, capable of cooperating for the security and prosperity of all.
Avanti Fratelli d'Italia”.
The comment has been accompanied by four photographs in which he is seen together with the winner of the Italian elections in various acts in which they have coincided in recent years.
For her part, Olona has posted a tweet with the phrase with which Meloni introduces herself (“I am Giorgia. I am a woman, I am a mother, I am Italian, I am a Christian. You are not going to take it away from me”), accompanied by the following comment : “You got it, Giorgia Meloni.
The love of the Italian people has been stronger”.
The text is illustrated with an image in which Olona and Meloni embrace during the latter's visit to Spain to support the former in the Andalusian electoral campaign.
The political vice president of Vox, Jorge Buxadé, has also rescued his photos with Meloni to spread them through Twitter, where he has written that "the sun rises from Italy for Spain", while the also ultra MEP Hermann Tertsch has assured that the victory of Fratelli d`Italia “deserves celebration”.
The leaders of Vox do not hide their euphoria after a week in which the crisis opened by Olona, who again has a public act in Seville this Monday with former banker Mario Conde, has created serious tensions in the party, threatened by a probable split .
His hope is that the Italian political earthquake will have replicas in Spain, although there the three right-wing parties have gone in coalition and here the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, does not even want to take a picture with Abascal.
for now,
06:59
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Berlusconi returns to the Senate after being expelled in 2013
The former Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, has won a seat in the Senate by obtaining an overwhelming majority (more than 50%) in the Monza college.
The tycoon had been expelled from Parliament in 2013, after two decades of continuous presence, after a four-year prison sentence for tax fraud in his Mediaset company.
Il Cavaliere
, about to turn 86, at the beginning of the year wanted to be president of the Republic, but failed in his attempt.
He has been a candidate nine times and three times President of the Council of Ministers.
He drags 36 judicial processes, several of them still in progress.
The sentence for tax fraud made him complete a year of social services and prevented him from holding public office until in 2019 he won a seat in the European Parliament for the European People's Party.
Berlusconi's girlfriend, Marta Fascina, has also won a seat for the center-right in Sicily.
06:08
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The Foreign Minister stays out of Parliament
The acting Foreign Minister, Luigi di Maio, has been left out of the Italian Parliament after the failure in the elections of his Impegno civico (Civil Commitment) party that he founded after leaving the 5 Star Movement, which he led until 2020.
With more than 90% of the districts counted, Di Maio's party was 0.6% in the Chamber of Deputies and 0.5% in the Senate, but he also lost his personal battle for a seat in Parliament in the school of the Fuorigrotta neighborhood, in Naples, defeated by the representative of the M5S Sergio Costa.
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05:03
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Giorgia Meloni: from praising Mussolini, to winning in Italy
The first memory of Giorgia Meloni (Rome, 45 years old) is fire.
The flames in her house when she accidentally set it on fire while playing dolls with her sister.
Then there is the water.
too much.
The sea reaching up to his neck when he was only three years old.
Her father, who would later abandon her and go to the Canary Islands, had left her in a boat with a kangaroo that she did not know how to swim.
Since then, she tells in her biography the leader of the Brothers of Italy, she has not stopped going to swimming and immersion courses.
“I am full of fear.
That's why I want to beat them."
Fear: his and the one he generates.
But also victory.
Ideas that, in some way, would configure years later the radical way of understanding the politics of the far-right leader, whose party has won the Italian elections this Sunday, according to the polls.
Until this victory, Roman politics has been building an increasingly solid and ideological mold.
He has made important decisions in these last five years.
She on two occasions refrained from entering Executives to which she had been invited.
First to which she formed the 5 Star Movement (M5S) with La Liga.
It was chaos.
She was right.
Then she also avoided entering the one that all the parties except her formed a year and a half ago.
Brothers of Italy is the only one that has not stepped on the carpet of the Chigi Palace.
And partly for this reason, today its formation can be done with between 22% and 26% of the votes, about 20 points more than in the 2018 elections. A rise practically identical to the fall of La Liga by Matteo Salvini, one of its coalition partners, to whom the polls give a scant 10%.
By
Daniel Verdu
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04:42
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Italy, the asthmatic power of Europe
Mario Draghi has been a formidable prime minister, almost equal to himself.
He received a country in bankruptcy of image, in political auction and in eternal economic decline.
He has left it at an excellent management reference...ready to get back to his old ways.
Where economic stagnation has become epidemic since the beginning of the century, it managed to make the GDP grow at a rate of 3.4%, the most outstanding among the G-7 countries.
Where his European credibility was close to zero, he managed the start of the Next Generation funds effectively, fulfilling the bulk of the projects and reforms agreed with Brussels.
Where the bank threatened to go bankrupt and Alitalia to residualize, it ensured its (thorny) survival.
He returned his country to the stretcher table of the greats.
He pledged his great personal prestige to it.
But beneath these instantaneous miracles, the transalpine republic remains a patient of Europe.
Suffering from asthma, that elegant but very annoying stumble in breathing that leads you to the Swiss mountains if you're Thomas Mann or a Jewish provost fleeing from brown shirts... or black.
By
Xavier Vidal-Folch
In the image, by
Remo Casilli
(Reuters), Mario Draghi, in the Italian Parliament on July 21.
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04:39
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The progress of the vote confirms the triumph of the right-wing coalition
The right-wing coalition, formed by the ultra parties of Brothers of Italy and the League and by Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia, obtains 44.5% of the votes in the Chamber of Deputies and in the Senate, with 88%. of the districts scrutinized, according to official data released by the Ministry of the Interior.
Giorgia Meloni's movement reaches 26.5% and is the favorite to receive the commission from the head of state, Sergio Mattarella, to form a government.
03:40
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Berlusconi's party promises a
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stable
" government
The Italian government formed by the center-right after the triumph achieved in the elections this Sunday will be "stable", assured Antonio Tajani, the national coordinator of the conservative Forza Italia (FI), a member of the winning alliance together with the far-right Brothers of Italy (FdI) and League.
"The result of the center-right will lead to a stable government, there will be no problems related to the different positions of the coalition parties," said the "number two" of FI, led by Silvio Berlusconi.
Tajani stressed that his party “is the center” of the coalition and that they are essential to govern: “We are satisfied, the facts show that the center is Forza Italia, there are no others.
Our decisions have been rewarded."
The coordinator explained that he had spoken with Berlusconi about his candidacy in the Senate.
"Everything suggests that he will win and will be able to return to the Senate, from which he was expelled" for tax fraud, but "today he has received justice from Italian citizens."
Forza Italia, a la que varios sondeos habían dado en las últimas semanas por debajo del Tercer Polo -los centristas de Acción e Italia Viva- se mantiene en torno al 8% y, aunque no es un buen resultado, ya que Berlusconi hablaba de llegar al 10%, lo cierto es que es determinante para dar la mayoría a la derecha. Agencia EFE /Foto: Flavio lo Scalzo (Reuters)
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La familia de Bolsonaro celebra la victoria de Meloni: "Ella es Dios, patria y familia".
Eduardo Bolsonaro, hijo del presidente de Brasil y diputado federal por el Estado de São Paulo, consideró en sus redes sociales que Giorgia Meloni, vencedora en las elecciones italianas, es "Dios, patria y familia".
El triunfo de la candidata de la ultraderecha se produce a una semana del duelo que Jair Bolsonaro, representante de esa corriente política en América Latina, se enfrente en elecciones generales al expresidente izquierdista Lula da Silva.
02:22
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Conte: "Somos el primer partido del sur y defenderemos nuestras conquistas, lo digo claro"
El líder del Movimiento Cinco Estrellas (M5S), Giuseppe Conte defendió su resultado e insistió en que su partido es el más votado en el sur de Italia. “Somos la primera fuerza política del sur y este es un hecho muy importante. Defenderemos todas nuestras batallas y nuestras conquistas. No permitiremos que nadie las desmantele, lo digo claro”. Durante una rueda de prensa en la sede de su partido la noche del domingo, Conte reconoció que obtuvo una "remontada importante" en los últimos días. “Todo el mundo nos dio un empujón y se logró una remontada importante: somos la tercera fuerza política y por eso tenemos una gran responsabilidad”, dijo.
01:28
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Vox celebra los resultados: “Italia marca el camino de una nueva Europa”
Vox se refirió en sus redes sociales el triunfo de Giorgia Meloni en las elecciones de este domingo. “Italia marca el camino de una nueva Europa de naciones libres y soberanas. El pueblo decidirá su futuro. Sin pedir permiso a ningún oligarca”, dice el partido en un mensaje que cerró al grito de “Avanti @GiorgiaMeloni!” y "Avanti @FratellidItalia!"
El titular de Vox, Santiago Abascal, también dedicó un mensaje al resultado en Italia. “Millones de europeos tienen sus esperanzas puestas en Italia”, dijo. Y vaticinó una Europa “orgullosa, de naciones libres y soberanas”.
01:23
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Primera comparecencia de Meloni tras la jornada electoral: "No somos un punto de llegada, sino de partida"
Pasadas las 2.30, hora local, la líder de Hermanos de Italia, Giorgia Meloni, ha salido a hablar en el escenario elegido para la noche electoral por su partido, en Roma. El compromiso era ofrecer un "mensaje rápido" de la jornada. "El futuro Gobierno sale de una clara indicación de los ciudadanos en las urnas", ha subrayado la líder romana, en referencia a los gobiernos técnicos de los últimos años. Ha lamentado la alta abstención, la mayor de la historia de la democracia italiana: "El mayor desafío es volver a creer en las instituciones".
"Cuando pase esta noche, tendremos que recordarnos que no somos un punto de llegada, sino de partida", ha dicho la líder de Hermanos de Italia. "Este es el tiempo de la responsabilidad, en el que se puede formar parte de la historia. Italia nos ha elegido y no la traicionaremos". Meloni ha agradecido el resultado a sus socios de la coalición, Matteo Salvini (la Liga) y Silvio Berlusconi (Forza Italia). Ha agradecido a su familia, citando específicamente a su hija, su hermana y su madre. "Doy gracias a todas las personas que nos han creído y no se han dado por vencidas", ha añadido. "Lo que nos dice esta noche es que las apuestas imposibles acaban por ser posibles", ha concluido.
24:37
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El partido de ultraderecha Hermanos de Italia alcanza el 25,6% del voto del Senado, con el 46% escrutado
El partido de ultraderecha Hermanos de Italia, con Giorgia Meloni al frente, ha conseguido el 25,6% del voto, según las proyecciones publicadas por la televisión pública italiana (RAI) sobre el Senado sobre la base de un 46% escrutado. El Partido Democrático, de centro-izquierda, se sitúa en segunda posición con el 19,3% de los votos. Le siguen el Movimiento 5 Estrellas (16,2%), la Lega (8,6%) y Forza Italia (7,8%). Si se tienen en cuenta los datos de las coaliciones, la compuesta por los partidos de ultraderecha y derecha acumularía el 43,3% de los votos y la coalición de centro-izquierda, el 26,4% sin contar con los votos del partido antisistema Movimiento 5 Estrellas, que ha conseguido el 16,2%.
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Opinión | Italia: unas elecciones sin sorpresas... hasta ahora
Al final, no hubo sorpresas en las elecciones italianas. Tras una campaña electoral corta y esencialmente incolora, las elecciones parlamentarias celebradas en Italia han seguido bastante fielmente las previsiones de los sondeos y también el estado de ánimo desilusionado y desinteresado del electorado. Pero si el resultado de la votación en sí no supone ninguna sorpresa, no se puede decir lo mismo de lo que ocurrirá después de las elecciones. En este sentido, Italia está entrando en una tierra desconocida que podría tener consecuencias para su democracia y también para el futuro de la Unión Europea. Sin embargo, antes de explorar este nuevo territorio, ciñámonos a lo que conocemos: los datos electorales y el resultado global de la votación. Por Marco Valbruzzi
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25 Sep 2022 - 23:56 UTC
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El Partido Democrático reconoce victoria de la ultraderecha y asume la "responsabilidad" de hacer oposición
El Partido Demócrata (PD) ha reconocido la victoria de la coalición de derechas en las elecciones generales en Italia y ha manifestado su "responsabilidad" al ser el primer partido de la oposición, según ha explicado la portavoz de la formación progresista en la Cámara de los diputados, Deborah Serracchiani.
Serracchiani ha sido la primera representante del PD en hablar a la prensa tras la victoria de Hermanos de Italia de Giorgia Meloni con cerca el 26 % de los votos junto con la Liga y Forza Italia, que en total sumarán cerca del 43 %, según las últimas proyecciones sobre los votos escrutados en el Senado.
Para la portavoz del PD "es un día triste" para Italia y "la derecha no es la mayoría del país". "Somos la primera fuerza de oposición y la segunda fuerza política y tenemos que hacer una oposición importante ante Europa y ante nuestro país en este momento delicado", han sido las primeras palabras de Serracchiani. Ha explicado que con estos datos el PD "tiene una gran responsabilidad" y también hizo notar que la Liga, con el 8 % de los votos, "tendrá que hacer una reflexión, así como el Tercer Polo (los centristas Acción e Italia Viva), que no han tenido el resultado a la altura" de lo esperado.
La portavoz ha evitado, sin embargo, evaluar los resultados del partido que no parece que pueda superar el 20 % y será significativo ver si se mantiene por debajo o por encima del resultado de 2018, cuando se llevó el 18,7 %, lo que provocó la dimisión de su directiva y de estos resultados también podrá depender la permanencia de Enrico Letta como secretario general. (EFE)
25 Sep 2022 - 23:43 UTC
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Opinión | Italia complica la Unión Europea
Parece razonable la preocupación de Bruselas por el triunfo de una coalición en Italia liderada por la ultraderechista Giorgia Meloni. Que aumenten los socios díscolos en la UE solo puede hacerla más ingobernable. Italia, además, no es Hungría, es la tercera economía europea y socia fundadora de la Unión. Pero, antes de llevarse las manos a la cabeza, conviene recordar que Italia lleva décadas dando la nota a su manera, y fue, en 1998, la primera democracia occidental gobernada por un poscomunista, un tal Massimo D’Alema, antiguo dirigente del mítico PCI. Duró un año y medio, cosa frecuente entre los presidentes de ejecutivos italianos, acaso el cargo más efímero del panorama político europeo. Por Lola Galán
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25 Sep 2022 - 23:37 UTC
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La debilidad de Salvini
By
Andrea Rizzi
A new projection based on the 21% counted confirms the general picture, with a clear victory for Giorgia Meloni's party, which would obtain 25% of the votes.
The projection points to a deeply disappointing result for the League, of 8.8%, practically a third of what was reaped by its allies/rivals of Brothers of Italy.
If confirmed, it would be a defeat with the potential to, at the very least, open cracks – when not openly question – in Matteo Salvini's leadership.
The League has some powerful regional barons, notably Luca Zaia, president of the Veneto region.
The Meloni earthquake could make his shaking felt in allied territory as well.
25 Sep 2022 - 23:30 UTC
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