Italy Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni

2022 - 9 - 28

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Giorgia Meloni: Who is the new Italian prime minister invoking the ... (Premier Christianity)

Giorgia Meloni is set to become Italy's first female prime minister, but don't be fooled by her talk of God, says Christopher Lamb.

The Italian journalist and author Iacopo Scaramuzzi has argued that the use of Christian iconography is an attempt He survived the far-right military dictatorship in Argentina in the late 1970s and 80s. [by populist nationalists to give a “soul” to their politics](https://religionmediacentre.org.uk/news/right-and-religion/) and that most do not hold genuine religious convictions. By contrast, Meloni has presented herself as a defender of traditional values by taking a strong stance against LGBT rights. Soros, who is Jewish, is a bogeyman for the hard right. Salvini is expected to have a prominent position in a Meloni-led coalition government, and his harsh security laws against migrants and refugees are likely to be revived. The party’s name is taken from a line in the Italian national anthem. Meanwhile the left has been divided and the populist, anti-establishment Five Star movement failed to deliver. As a teenager, she joined the youth wing of the Italian Social Movement, the party founded in 1946 by supporters of the former fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. After a period in local politics, Meloni was elected to the Italian parliament as a member of the National Alliance Party, a successor to the Social Movement but with a more moderate stance. Her self-deprecating remarks disguised the steely political will of a woman who is set to become Italy’s first female prime minister. Arriving just in time to deliver a speech at the 2019 World Congress of Families – a coalition founded by the Christian Right in America – Giorgia Meloni explained why she had been held up.

Italy's Giorgia Meloni is no Mussolini – but she may be a Trump (The Guardian)

There's nothing nostalgic about the far-right political space that the country's new leader is trying to carve out in Europe, says philosopher Lorenzo ...

[abolition](https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2022/05/09/von-der-leyen-backs-ending-unanimous-voting-in-some-areas-of-eu) of the unanimity vote, a measure necessary to project a strong voice on foreign affairs, defence and energy policy. He is the author of The EU may be a victim of such transformation. It is regrettable that Italian progressives are the enablers of this transformation. [Brothers of Italy](https://www.theguardian.com/world/brothers-of-italy) party. That same process – rather than the sensational emergence of a fascist, but ultimately short-lived government in Italy – may be what is taking hold in Europe. At the same time, she aimed to [reassure the financial markets](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-12/italy-s-meloni-pledges-not-to-expand-deficit-to-fund-energy-aid) – and, yes, the EU – that her government would keep public debt in check. No one would risk ostracising the Italian government during a security, energy and cost of living crisis just to come to the defence of migrants, or to protect women’s reproductive rights. But it would aim for respectability in what used to be called the establishment, including by not undermining the rule of law in the way the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, has done. She bided her time and painstakingly [built its following](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/09/giorgia-meloni-brothers-of-italy-party-friendly-face-surging-far-right) over the years. Meloni’s party is not so much the heir to Benito Mussolini’s fascist movement as the first European copycat of the US Republican party. And, more important, is Italy a laboratory whose experiment the rest of the world could eventually follow?

'Ready to boost ties and cooperate with India': Italian PM Giorgia ... (India Today)

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said she will cooperate and work with the Indian government on international stability and other global challenges.

Giorgia Meloni is heading the country’s first far right-led government since World War II. Ready to cooperate with you and your government on international stability and all the other global challenges [September 28, 2022] To this, Meloni replied that she was ready to cooperate with the Indian government on international stability and all other global challenges.

Italy PM election: Giorgia Meloni elected as First woman PM of Italy (Current Affairs)

Meloni will take over from Prime Minister Mario Draghi, the former head of the European Central Bank, who pushed Rome to the centre of EU policy-making during ...

She has also served as a youth minister in Berlusconi’s 2008-2011 government before founding the Brothers of Italy in 2012. In 1992 at the age of 15, Meloni joined the Youth Front, the youth wing of the neo-fascist Italian Social Movement (MSI). Giorgia Meloni looks set to become Italy’s first woman prime minister at the head of its most right-wing government since World War Two after leading a conservative alliance to triumph at the election.

Giorgia Meloni's election not a 'new destabilising force' for Italy (Sky News Australia)

On tonight's episode of Paul Murray Live, Paul Murray goes through Labor's cash deficit, breaks down the Greens' hypocrisy, and says new Italian Prime ...

Prime Minister congratulates Giorgia Meloni for winning Italy polls ... (News Room Odisha)

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has congratulated Giorgia Meloni for leading her party Fratelli d'Itaia in Italian general elections.

Italy's new leader faces familiar problems, including fickle voters (The Washington Post)

Few Italians were surprised at who won Italy's general election on Sunday. The right-wing coalition led by the Brothers of Italy (FdI), a political party ...

In June, Meloni brought a [rally of Vox](https://www.la7.it/intanto/video/giorgia-meloni-in-spagna-no-alla-lobby-lgbt-no-allimmigrazione-di-massa-no-alla-grande-finanza-13-06-2022-442083), the Spanish neofascist party, to its feet with an impassioned speech in which she called for protecting the traditional family from liberals and stopping migration from Africa. The [Five Star Movement](https://theloop.ecpr.eu/whatever-happened-to-the-italian-five-star-movement/) (M5S), which introduced the wage, outpolled the right in Naples and some other parts of southern Italy. [Mark Gilbert](https://bipr.jhu.edu/experts/130-Mark-Gilbert.cfm) is C. [Mario Draghi](https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2022/09/23/what-is-the-legacy-of-outgoing-italian-prime-minister-mario-draghi), who was trusted by the E.U. [Christian Social Union](https://www.dw.com/en/bavarias-christian-social-union-what-you-need-to-know/a-39192183), the CSU. After an elaborate series of consultations, Prime Minister [Mario Draghi](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/07/20/italy-mario-draghi-senate-speech-government/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2) will hand over power to the FdI’s leader, [Giorgia Meloni](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/09/13/giorgia-meloni-italy-interview/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2), and her team. [Public debt](https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/debt-laden-italy-looks-no-less-vulnerable-rates-shoot-higher-2022-07-20/) is [above](https://www.soldionline.it/notizie/macroeconomia/debito-pubblico-italiano-2022) 150 percent of GDP. One of the few hard promises that the right-wing coalition made was to abolish the [“Citizenship Wage,”](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/06/italy-rolls-out-citizens-income-for-the-poor-amid-criticisms) a welfare payment guaranteeing a financial safety net for the unemployed. By coincidence, she will probably take office on the centenary of the [March on Rome](https://historyonthisday.com/events/italy/mussolini-march-on-rome/), the coup that brought Benito Mussolini to power in October 1922. Parties surge to win 30 to 40 percent of the vote, then fail in government and slump in the next election. [Meloni](https://www.npr.org/2022/09/24/1124685476/giorgia-meloni-italy-election) will be Italy’s first female prime minister. [general election](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/italy-shifts-to-the-right-as-voters-reward-melonis-party/2022/09/26/0ec21a2e-3d8d-11ed-8c6e-9386bd7cd826_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_2) on Sunday.