Giorgia Meloni

With full results due on Monday, the far-right party leader is set to become Italy's first female prime minister – and a model for nationalist parties across ...

On Ukraine, Meloni has condemned Russia’s invasion and supported sending weapons to the war-torn country, but it remains unclear whether her government will back the eighth round of EU sanctions being discussed in Brussels. It would be like me, at my age, trying to be a footballer like Maradona.” The coalition has said it is not seeking to renegotiate the plan, but would like to make changes. the model is there, and so is the project.” “It feels as if we’re on a rudderless boat,” said Carlo Russo. Meloni has sought to send reassuring messages, but the prospect of her as prime minister is unlikely to be welcomed in Paris or Berlin. Salvini, who has close ties with Le Pen, said he “can’t wait” to resume his policy of blocking migrant rescue ships from entering Italian ports. “She’s really interested in compromising with the EU on economic politics. “This is a sad evening for the country,” Debora Serracchiani, a senior PD lawmaker, told reporters in the party’s first official comment on the result. One of her first messages of congratulations on Sunday night was from Orbán’s political director, Balázs Orbán, who said: “In these difficult times, we need more than ever friends who share a common vision and approach to Europe’s challenges.” Meloni is also allied to Poland’s ruling nationalist Law and Justice party, the anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats and Spain’s far-right Vox party. “It’s going to be a long night, but I wanted to say THANK YOU,” he wrote.

Giorgia Meloni would be country's first woman prime minister. The early vote follows collapse of Mario Draghi's government. Rome: A right-wing alliance led by ...

Berlusconi sparked outrage late in the campaign when he appeared to defend Russian President Vladimir Putin. Meloni, 45, plays down her party’s post-fascist roots and portrays it as a mainstream conservative group. As leader of the biggest party in the winning alliance, she is the obvious choice to become Italy’s first woman prime minister, but the transfer of power is traditionally slow and it could take several weeks before the new government is sworn in.

Far-right leader Giorgia Meloni came top in Italian elections on Sunday, the first exit polls suggested, putting her Eurosceptic populists on course to take power at the heart of Europe. Ms Meloni's Brothers of Italy party, which has neo-fascist roots, ...

She has sought to distance herself from the past as she built up her party into a political force, going from just 4 per cent of the vote in 2018 to Sunday's triumph. Brothers of Italy has roots in the post-fascist movement founded by supporters of Benito Mussolini, and Ms Meloni herself praised the dictator when she was young. A straight-speaking Roman raised by a single mother in a working-class neighbourhood, Ms Meloni rails against what she calls "LGBT lobbies", "woke ideology" and "the violence of Islam". But the self-declared "Christian mother" — whose experience of government has been limited to a stint as a minister in Mr Berlusconi's 2008 government — has huge challenges ahead. Ms Meloni, who campaigned on a motto of "God, country and family", has abandoned her calls for one of Europe's biggest economies to leave the Eurozone, but says Rome must assert its interests more in Brussels. But the coalition was forecast to win around 43 percent, enough to secure a majority in both houses of parliament.

Meloni, set to become Italy's first female prime minister, says 'clear indication' from voters of what they want.

“A sense of responsibility is prevailing now and we are starting to feel the weight of what is happening. The two parites “after their relative dramatic electoral results will have to rethink their leaderships and their policies to attract votes,” said Ruggeri. The election results will be confirmed on Monday, but a new government will not be formed before mid-November. She has also made clear she will continue to support Ukraine and sanctions against Russia, while keeping a critical tone within the European block. The Five Star Movement, long considered a moribund party, seems to have done better than expected, conquering the south and getting 16.6 percent of the vote. to make them proud of being Italians, to waive the Italian flag,” Meloni told the media in a much more subdued tone than her usual roaring.