Legislature: Giorgia Meloni, former admirer of Mussolini who conquered Italy

In pole position to become the first female head of government in Italy’s history, Giorgia Meloni, head of the Fratelli d’Italia (FTI) party, embodied a movement with post-fascist DNA that she succeeded in “de-demonizing”. Come to power.

Under the leadership of this 45-year-old Roman, the FDI has become the country’s leading party with nearly a quarter of the vote.

In the 2018 legislative elections, the FDI had to settle for just 4% of the vote, but Giorgia Meloni managed to rally the discontent and disillusionment of many Italians who were outraged by Brussels’ “mandate” on her behalf. Youth lives and blocked futures.

Its motto? “God, Fatherland, Family”. His priorities? Close the borders to protect Italy from “Islam”, renegotiate European treaties so that Rome regains control of its destiny, fight against “LGBT lobbies” and the “demographic winter” of the country, whose average age is the highest in the industrialized world. Japan.

In 2016, he joined other European far-right organizations in denouncing that “ethnic replacement is underway in Italy”. “Meloni represents a point of opposition, opposition, discontent”, analysis for AFP Sofia Ventura, professor of political science at the University of Bologna.

Meloni and his party were the successors of the Italian Social Movement (MSI), a neo-fascist party formed after World War II. Dictator Benito Mussolini was a “good politician,” he told French channel France 3 at the age of 19.

It also knows that if it is to give up its base of claiming this past, it must convince moderates to win. “If I’m a fascist, I’ll say I’m a fascist,” he defended himself in a recent interview with the British magazine “The Spectator.”

In a perfect balancing act, he still recognizes that Mussolini “accomplished a lot” without absolving him of his “mistakes”: passing anti-Semitic laws and going to war. And to clarify: In its ranks, there is “no room for fascists, racism and anti-Semitism”.

Born in Rome on January 15, 1977, Giorgia Meloni became an activist at the age of 15 while working as a babysitter or maid in right-wing classified student unions. In 1996, he became president of the high school association, Azion Studenteska, whose symbol is the Celtic cross.

In 2006, he became the chamber’s vice president and vice president. Two years later, he was appointed Minister of Youth in Silvio Berlusconi’s government. This is his only government experience.

After that she diligently watches TV sets often. Her youth, her courage, her formulas make her a good client for the media. She understands that the persona of a young and beautiful blonde in Italy is still very extravagantly attractive, at least in ideas.

“I’m Georgian, I’m a woman, I’m a mother, I’m Italian, I’m a Christian,” she told supporters in Rome in 2019, famously. Georgia Meloni, who lives with a TV journalist, had a daughter in 2006.

This gifted orator, who knew how to speak with the boldness of Italians, developed his famous accent to suit the Roman language, and could be fragile and even aggressive. The video, which was posted on TikTok on Sunday, sometimes falls into bad taste, where she shows herself with two melons in her hands at the level of her breasts in reference to her last name.

At the end of 2012, fed up with dissent from the far right, he founded Fratelli d’Italia with other dissidents of Berlusconism and chose to camp in the opposition.

When Mario Draghi, a former governor of the European Central Bank, formed a cabinet of national unity in February 2021 to lead Italy out of the health and economic crisis, only he and his party refused to participate. “Italy needs independent opposition,” he said. In the name of this freedom, synonymous with sovereignty, this Atlanticist condemns the Russian invasion of Ukraine from day one.