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Italy is expected to elect Giorgia Meloni as its first female prime minister when the country goes to the polls Sunday in its first general election since 2018. Meloni, a former journalist and right-wing conservative activist, has experienced a meteoric rise in politics from her teenage activist days.
She won her first local election at 21 and was the country’s youngest minister at 31. Meloni’s success has largely been attributed to her steadfast determination and refusal to compromise.
“She is a relatively young woman and has very direct and effective rhetoric,” Carlo Bastasin a non-resident fellow and Europe expert with the Brookings Institution told Fox News Digital. “She manages to combine reassuring dialectical elements while maintaining a provocative tone that makes her seem different from the standard politician. The fact of being a woman and young distances her from the post-fascist cliché: virile and nostalgic.”
Recent polling has consistently shown that a coalition comprising several right-wing parties, including Meloni’s the Brothers of Italy (FDI), Forza Italia and Lega, leading their opponents with over 25% of voters supporting them.
Giorgia Meloni, leader of the far-right party Brothers of Italy, speaks during a rally. Italians head to the polls on Sept. 25.
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While other right-wing parties’ support slipped due to their participation in Prime Minister Mario Draghi’s coalition government, Meloni’s party, which remained outside the government, saw its support increase. This increased support by voters, and from within the coalition, has placed Meloni in a position to be Italy’s first female prime minister.
Italy’s political right has been aided by fractures within the main center-left party, where attempts by the main Democratic Party to form a broad coalition collapsed. Italian politics favors political parties capable of forming broad coalitions and allying themselves with other right-wing parties has put Meloni’s party in a strong position to potentially form such a coalition, if opinion polls are to be followed.
The right-wing coalition has been able to coalesce by calling for across the board tax cuts, which is opposed by their Democratic counterparts who have only proposed tax cuts for lower income groups, in addition to tapping into concerns about the…
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