The nationalist right wins the general election. Giorgia Meloni, head of the Fratelli d’Italia, has good prospects of becoming the country’s first woman prime minister. The Left must reproach itself for having started separately.
Of
Oliver Meiler, Rome
Italy is experiencing a historical turning point. As the first results and projections from the night show, Giorgia Meloni’s “Brothers of Italy” won around 26 percent of the vote and is by far the strongest party in the country. Never in the history of the republic, that is, since the end of the Second World War, has an Italian parliament been as far to the right as the future one will be. And: Never in the history of the European Union has a large founding country had a right-wing extremist government. The Fratelli d’Italia emerged from the neo-fascist Movimento Sociale Italiano, their origins rooted in fascism.