Giorgia Meloni told a crowd of supporters that the world was wrong to be afraid of her after widespread condemnation of her alt-right politics heading up to the vote.
Meloni now looks set to become the first female leader of one of the biggest economies in the world and told a crowd of supporters at her final campaign rally in Rome’s Piazza del Popoplo that the world was wrong to be afraid of her after widespread condemnation of her alt-right politics heading up to the vote. “What are they afraid of?” she yelled as the crowd changed “Giorgia! Giorgia! Giorgia!”
Meloni is very much a creation of one of her biggest supporters, Steve Bannon, who traveled to Rome during the last election campaign in 2018 and headlined her ultra-conservative party conferences. He also made sure she was a speaker at C-Pac, where in 2022, she echoed some of the world’s most extreme leaders, including Viktor Orban of Hungary, who she considers a close friend and ally in Europe.
She later joined the National Alliance, which grew from the ashes of the previous party, and rose in the ranks until she created her own party, called Brothers of Italy, which boasts a tri-color flame—a not-so-subtle reference to fascism and supporters of Mussolini’s undying power. And even though she is set to become patriarchal Italy’s first female leader—a feat not yet achieved in the U.S.—she is no friend to women. She has hinted that she will clamp down on abortion rights. The two regions in Italy that her party controls have restricted legal abortion to less than nine weeks—the national law.
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