Giorgia Meloni could become the first female prime minister in the history of Italy as Italians head to the polls.
Giorgia Meloni, heads the Brothers of Italy political party, and the president of the European Conservatives and Reformists Party, holds a speech of conclusion during the electoral campaign in Bagnoli, Italy, Sept. 23, 2022.Giorgia Meloni, leader of Fratelli d'Italia , could become the first female prime minister in the history of Italy in an anticipated right-wing surge to the polls on Sunday.
The archconservative of Italian politics, Meloni entered politics at age 15 in 1992, joining the neo-fascist Social Movement, a group with pronounced sympathy for Benito Mussolini, the country's dictator from 1925 to 1945. Fratelli d'Italia's party imagery evokes Italy's fascist past, but Meloni has rejected the associations, framing her proposed conservative coalition as a nationalist project that would recover power from Brussels.
Observers say EU battle lines may be realigning, with Italy, one of the bloc's founders and its third-largest economy, cozying more to Hungary and Poland than Germany and France. The right wing, though, has joined forces. Polls indicate Meloni will be the leading conservative finisher on Sunday; her government's junior partners would be Matteo Salvini, leader of the League, and Silvio Berlusconi, the head of the center-right Forza Italia. Berlusconi, the media tycoon and conservative firebrand, rose to power in 1994 and won three stints as prime minister, in total the longest serving premier in the post-war era.
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