According to the first opinion polls released this Sunday (25.09 .2022), the right-wing coalition led by the post-fascist Brothers of Italy party, led by journalist Giorgia Meloni, looks poised to win a majority in the European country’s next parliament. ) shortly after polling.
State broadcaster RAI pledged to give its predictions to the conservative bloc, which includes Matteo Salvini’s La Liga and Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia, with preferences ranging from 41 to 45 percent, enough to guarantee control of the two cameras. This is the first time since World War II that the far right has taken full control of an administration.
Enrico Letta’s Democratic Party-led Progressive Alliance reaches 17 to 21 percent. The Five Star movement, meanwhile, adds between 13.5 and 17.5 percent. And again there are La Liga (8.5-12.5 percent) and Forza Italia (6-8 percent).
Consecration of Meloni
Italian electoral law favors groups that form coalitions before the referendum and are awarded a greater number of seats than they should receive based on their votes, so a right-wing coalition is predicted to win more than half of the seats. The complete results are expected to be out early Monday morning.
If the result is confirmed, Meloni – a 45-year-old politician who heads a eurosceptic populist party – would become Italy’s first woman prime minister. Previously, he was youth minister during Berlusconi’s fourth government and deputy minister since 2006.
Nearly 51 million Italians were invited to vote on election day, which began at 07:00 local time, to elect 600 members of parliament (400 representatives and 200 senators).
Marine Le Pen has led the populist National Front (RN) since 2011. Le Pen tried to soften the image of her movement, and later went so far as to expel her own father, the party’s founder. He said the Nazi gas chambers were just a “detail” in the history of World War II.
Female Faces of the European Far Right
Germany: Frock Petri
Frauke Petry’s anti-immigrant stances helped the Alternative for Germany (AfD) enter parliament in 2017. In September of that year, Petri resigned as party leader because the “extremist” statements of his comrades made the “opposition” impossible. constructive. Petrie is now an independent member of the federal and regional parliaments in Saxony.
Female Faces of the European Far Right
Germany: Alice Weidel
Alice Weidel has been co-chair of the AfD since October 2017. An email from 2013 revealed that Weidel described Germany as “a place occupied by culturally aliens like Arabs and Gypsies”. The email also described the government as “pigs” who were “puppets of the Allies in World War II”. The AfD opposes same-sex marriages, but he is paired with a woman.
Female Faces of the European Far Right
Poland: Beata Czydlo
Beata Szydlo is the Deputy Prime Minister of Poland and the Deputy Leader of the Law and Justice Party (PiS), which holds the majority in parliament. PiS is against the migrant quota adopted by the EU. In 2017, then-Prime Minister Szydlo was amid controversy for using a structure reminiscent of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp to highlight his anti-immigration policies.
Female Faces of the European Far Right
Norway: Siv Jensen
Siv Jensen leads the Progress Party, which is part of Norway’s centre-right governing coalition. Jensen promotes personal freedom and rights, and names former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher among her political heroes. He is also an outspoken supporter of the Norwegian embassy in Israel moving from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Female Faces of the European Far Right
Italy: Giorgia Meloni
Giorgia Meloni, co-founder and leader of the conservative Brothers of Italy party, has a long history of ties to far-right movements. At the age of 15, he joined the Youth Front of the neo-fascist social movement. From May 2008 to November 2011, he was Silvio Berlusconi’s Minister of Youth. Currently, his party is part of the Italian government coalition.
Female Faces of the European Far Right
Denmark: Pia Kjaersgaard
Pia Kjaersgaard is a co-founder of the People’s Party, which she led from 1995 to 2012. Famous for his strong speech against multiculturalism and immigration. His main interests were stopping immigration and improving the situation of the elderly. In 2003, he lost a defamation case in the High Court against activist Karen Sunds, who claimed that Kjersgaard was a racist.
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