Italian voters have rewarded Giorgia Meloni’s eurosceptic party with neo-fascist roots, propelling the country towards its first far-right-led government since World War II.
Giorgia Meloni would be country’s first woman prime minister.Italian voters rewarded Giorgia Meloni’s eurosceptic party with neo-fascist roots, propelling the country toward what likely would be its first far-right-led government since World War II, based on partial results on Monday from parliamentary elections.
Fratelli d’Italia supporters celebrate after Giorgia Meloni’s appearance at the party headquarters in Rome.Meanwhile, former European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi, whose government collapsed two months ago, stays on in a caretaker role.She has solidly backed the supplying of Ukraine with arms to defend itself against Russia’s invasion.
After opinion polls in the run-up to the vote indicated she would be headed to victory, Meloni started moderating her message of “God, homeland and family” in an apparent attempt to reassure the European Union and other international partners, worried about euro-scepticism. That compared to some 19.3 per cent by the closest challenger, the centre-left Democratic Party of former Premier Enrico Letta. Salvini’s League was projected to win 8.6 per cent of the ballots, roughly half of what he garnered in the last 2018 election. Berlusconi’s Forza Italia party, appeared headed to win 8 per cent.
Turnout according to the Interior Ministry, was 64 per cent, as eligible voters deserted polling stations in droves. That is far lower than the previous record for low turnout, 73 per cent in 2018.Italy has had three coalition governments since the last election – each led by someone who hadn’t run for office, and that appeared to have alienated many voters, pollsters had said.
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