Rome
Since Giorgia Meloni's victory in the legislative elections on September 25, an identity and ultra-conservative right has taken off in Rome.
Witness the election Thursday of Ignazio La Russa, of the Fratelli d'Italia (FdI) party, as President of the Senate.
And that of Lorenzo Fontana, of the League, to that of the Chamber of Deputies.
They become the second and third political personalities of the state.
“
These two very right-wing figures will have to de-ideologise themselves to assume their new functions and become guarantors of democracy
” sums up Giovanni Orsina, historian of the Italian right at the Guido Carli International Free University of Social Studies (Luiss).
In the Senate, a vertigo even seized the Italian political class on the occasion of a singular telescoping of history.
Liliana Segre, a 92-year-old survivor of Auschwitz, leads, thanks to the privilege of age, the first session of the legislature.
She recalls that "
this month of October marks the centenary of the march on...
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