Giorgia Meloni is a journalist and politician born in Rome in 1977. She was the youngest to hold the vice-presidency of Parliament and the youngest to be appointed as a minister in the Italian Government after Silvio Berlusconi gave her the youth policy portfolio in 2008. Now will also be the first woman to become Prime Minister of Italy.
With 26.24% of the votes, his Fratelli D’Italia (Brothers of Italy) party emerged as the winner in a democratic night that has already shaken europe. The party of the far-right leader has been the most voted force and will create a coalition with the far-right League of Matteo Salvini and the center-right Forza Italia of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, achieving almost 44% of the votes together.
Giorgia Meloni and the Italian extreme right
Italy’s most right-wing government since World War II It brings with it the promise of a series of measures that, of course, scare us, because they can be the prelude to much more. We could already hear the opinion of Giorgia Meloni in Malaga, in an intervention at a Vox rally:
Yes to the natural family, no to LGBT lobbies; yes to sexual identity; no to gender identity; yes to the culture of life; not to the abyss of death; yes to the universality of the cross, no to Islamist violence; yes to secure borders, no to mass immigration.
During the campaign, the party has used the slogan “God, country and family” that was already heard in 1931 in the mouth of Giovanni Giuriati, the general secretary of the National Fascist Party. Motto that Giorgia Meloni has stated is the “most beautiful manifesto of love”.
The Fratelli d’Italia party coincides in form with the European extreme right of, for example, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. His speech is ultra-conservative in terms of the social, and liberal in the economic. She denounces the “Islamization” that, according to her, Europe is suffering and advocates for the “traditional family”, even if that means leaving out part of the Italian population.
Her party rethinks the concept of national sovereignty in Italy and its relationship with the European Union, in addition to denouncing “illegal immigration” and showing rejection of equality policies, which she herself calls gender ideology policies, since those that have to do with LGTBIQ+ collectivejust like Vox does in Spain.
The proposals of the electoral program of Giorgia Meloni and why they scare us
The electoral program of Fratelli d’Italia opens with measurements on the family, fundamental pillar of society according to its programwhich include support for births such as increasing the child benefit, reducing VAT on children’s products, including free nurseries and increasing places in primary schools, for example.
But it is not that, nor the incentives for young people in the world of work promises (young people under 30 who create their own business will have zero taxes for the first three years, for example) or the adjustment of pensions for the elderly, which is of concern to Europe, but measures related to immigration, the environment environment and foreign policy. For example, to prevent the “massive arrival” of immigrants, Meloni wants to close Italian ports to prevent NGO ships from docking, and promote the creation of new surveillance and deportation centers in Italy.
Regarding abortion, and as explains newtralMeloni wants to give more weight to the first part of law 194 approved in Italy in 1978 (“Law for the social protection of maternity and on the voluntary interruption of pregnancy”), which speaks of the “social protection of maternity” and not the second, which regulates abortion.
And although there is no mention of abortion in the electoral program, the researchers Francesca Feo and Anna Lavizzari already pointed out in This studio that “in Meloni’s opinion, Law 194 should allow termination of pregnancy in strictly necessary cases, but, above all, it should grant women the right to be mothers and guarantee the rights of the child”. while in Spain facilitates abortion it seems that in Italy the course is completely opposite.
The opinion of the most famous Italians on the triumph of Giorgia Meloni
The opinion of the famous Italians has not been long in coming after the victory of Giorgia Meloni was proclaimed in the last elections. Although we are not aware of the opinion of great Italian figures such as sophia loren either Laura PausinoYes there are Italians who have shown their opinion in publicalthough it has been more veiled as in the case of Fedez, who has posted a story with a song on his Instagram account:
Damiano David, the singer of Måneskin, shared in his stories this publication of how the elections are seen from abroad:
His partner, Giorgia Soleri, also showed his concern in the Instagram stories in which he summarized his disagreement with the results with the following text:
The meaning was “the pain that invalidated me on the day of the vote due to chronic illness was less painful than this result for me” (luckily many people who follow me and know my situation understood it without the need to explain it)
Even Aída Nizar, who is not Italian but it does not matter, had time to face the one who will be prime minister in an italian program. Yes, the Big Brother star argued heatedly with her a few years ago because everything Nizar does is synonymous with intensity:
Aida Nizar grabbing the next Prime Minister of Italy by the hair pic.twitter.com/IrpOLPV3Sv
— ELE (@tequiles_) September 25, 2022
And although it is still early and it is not so easy change the laws As it may seem, we cannot prevent our feminism speak for us and put us goosebumps when thinking about all that that the extreme right promises already terrifies us.
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