Italy election: Russia is benevolent towards election winner Giorgia Meloni

Created: 09/27/2022, 05:10

By: Bettina Menzel, Bedrettin Bölükbasi

The ultra-right Giorgia Meloni triumphed in Italy's parliamentary elections.

The US continues to hope for cooperation with the European country.

Update from September 26, 8:07 p.m .:

The USA, Russia and Poland have already commented on the results of the parliamentary elections in Italy.

Spain's socialist foreign minister, José Manuel Albares, has now warned of populist tendencies in Europe given the shift to the right.

"In times of uncertainty, they always spread and they always end in disaster because they offer short-winded and simple answers to very complicated questions," he told the Europa Press news agency on Monday.

Giorgia Meloni's far-right party won more than 26 percent of the votes in Italy's parliamentary elections on Sunday.

Albare emphasized that he does not expect developments in Spain like in Italy.

The situation in the two countries is “very different”.

Russia welcomes 'political forces capable of stepping outside the mainstream'

Update from September 26, 6:46 p.m .:

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov did not want to comment in more detail on the parliamentary elections in Italy on Monday.

This is a “purely internal matter”.

However, Russia welcomes all political forces "that are able to leave the framework of the established mainstream, which is characterized by hatred of Russia, and show more objectivity and constructiveness in relations with our country," Peskov said after a report the agency Interfax.

Election winner Giorgia Meloni is considered pro-Western in foreign policy and a supporter of NATO.

She emphasizes her support for Russia's attacked Ukraine.

However, their alliance also includes forces that have expressed themselves as pro-Russian.

Above all, Russia relies on those politicians in the EU who are campaigning for an end to Western sanctions against Moscow.

Poland's President Duda slams criticism of Giorgia Meloni's election victory as "arrogant"

Update from September 26, 5:28 p.m .:

After the victory of the post-fascist Fratelli d'Italia in the parliamentary elections in Italy, the USA had already announced that it would seek close cooperation with the new government.

Poland's President Andrzej Duda, who criticized the election victory of Giorgia Meloni and her right-wing radical party as a sign of arrogance, also spoke out.

"How much sense of superiority, arrogance and contempt for democratic rules does one have to have to say about the result of another country's elections (...): 'The wrong person won!'" Duda wrote on Twitter on Monday .

Meloni's party won more than 26 percent of the votes in Italy's parliamentary elections on Sunday.

With her right-wing alliance partners Lega and Forza Italia, the nationalist will have a clear absolute majority in parliament due to the peculiarities of Italian electoral law.

Polish President Duda is officially non-party, as the constitution provides for.

He originally came from the ranks of the national conservative governing party PiS.

Leading PiS politicians gave a positive assessment of the outcome of the election.

Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki congratulated Meloni on the "great victory" that night.

First election results from Italy confirm the victory of the post-fascist Fratelli d'Italia

First message: Rome/Washington – The general elections in Italy were followed with excitement throughout Europe.

After all, a shift to the right by the government was feared.

The first results finally confirmed what was suggested by polls in the weeks leading up to the election: the right-wing camp around Giorgia Meloni, leader of the post-fascist Fratelli d'Italia (FDI), emerged victorious.

The first reaction to the election in Italy came from the USA.

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Italy election: USA wants cooperation with new Italian government

The United States is counting on close cooperation with the future government in Rome and wants to continue supporting Ukraine and protecting human rights.

"We are eager to work with the Italian government on our common goals: to support a free and independent Ukraine, respect human rights and build a sustainable economic future," US Secretary of State Antony Blinken wrote Monday (September 26) in the Short message service Twitter.

"Italy is an extremely important ally, a strong democracy and a valued partner," Blinken added.

Italy election: Ultra-right Meloni wins - she gets a good 43 percent of the votes

According to projections, the far-right Giorgia Meloni and her post-fascist FDI party received around a quarter of the votes in the parliamentary elections in Italy, making it the strongest party.

With her allies, the right-wing Lega and the conservative Forza Italia (FI), Meloni received a good 43 percent of the votes, which should be enough for an absolute majority of seats in the House of Representatives and Senate.

Meloni is likely to become the first woman to head an Italian government.

But you still have a difficult government formation ahead of you.