The leader of the post-fascist Fratelli d'Italia party Giorgia Meloni, victorious in the Italian legislative elections, hopes that "
Spain will also go to the right
", in a tweet Thursday (September 29th) to the leader of the far-right Spanish party Vox, Santiago Abascal.
Santiago Abascal had been one of the first on Monday to congratulate Giorgia Meloni who, according to him, "
showed the way towards a proud and free Europe of sovereign nations
", while the Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albarés, socialist, had released later that "
populisms always end in disaster
".
In a tweet published Thursday, the probable future Italian Prime Minister thanks Santiago Abascal for his "
friendship
".
“No to Islamist violence!”
“
You know how much we had to work to achieve this result.
Now we are already at work to confront the problems of Italians, in the concrete way typical of conservatives
, ”she continues in this tweet written in Spanish, a language she speaks fluently.
“
We hope that Spain also moves to the right!
“, Concludes Giorgia Meloni, 45, who gave a keynote speech in June to Vox activists in Spain.
“
Yes to the natural family, no to the LGBT lobby!
Yes to sexual identity, no to gender ideology!
Yes to the culture of life, no to the abyss of death!
Yes to the universal values of the Cross, no to Islamist violence!
Yes to secure borders, no to mass immigration!
(...) Yes to the sovereignty of the people, no to the bureaucracy of Brussels!
“, she said in particular.
To read alsoFrédéric Le Moal: “Can we really qualify Giorgia Meloni as “post-fascist”?
Giorgia Meloni has started negotiations with her coalition partners, Matteo Salvini's Antimigrant League and Silvio Berlusconi's conservative Forza Italia party, to form a government which should be in place by the end of October.
This coalition dominated by the far right has an absolute majority in both the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate.