- Paul Kirby
- BBC News, Rome
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source of photos, Reuters
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Meloni said he was sending a clear message that the people wanted a right-wing government.
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An exit poll for the political elections conducted in Italy on the 25th (local time) showed that the right-wing coalition led by the Fratelli Italiani (Fdl) party had the most votes. As a result, Giorgia Meloni, far-right leader of the FDL, should become Italy’s first female prime minister.
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Meloni is expected to form the most right-wing government in Italy after World War II.
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Italy’s far right, the third largest economy in the European Union (EU), risks destabilizing many in Europe.
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But shortly after the political elections, Meloni said the Fdl “will rise to power for everyone” and will not lose confidence.
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Meanwhile, Meloni told reporters in Rome: “The Italian people have sent a clear message that they support the right-wing government led by the FDL.”
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In fact, it is expected that the Fdl party, led by Meloni, will temporarily reach 26% of the votes, a figure higher than the Democratic Party, of which Enrico Letta, the most likely rival, belongs.
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The right-wing coalition, made up of the FDL party, the far-right Lega (Lega) party, led by former Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, and the Avanti Italia (FI) party, led by former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, is expected to receive 42.2% of the votes in the current Senate vote and should dominate both the House and the Senate.
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But who will ultimately become the next prime minister depends on the Italian president, not on Meloni, and it will take some time before a final decision is made.
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Meanwhile, Meloni is trying to soften his image of rigidity by emphasizing support for Ukraine or diluting anti-EU colors, but the FDL party itself has its roots in the fascist forces of former dictator Benito Mussolini.
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In a rally earlier this year by the far-right Spanish party Vox, Meloni said: “I am in favor of natural family formation, I am against pressure on LGBT people” and “I am in favor of sexual identity. , but I’m against gender ideology … against Muslim violence. ” Against, in favor of strengthening border defenses, against mass immigration … against huge international finance … against EU officials! ”
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Expected results of the vote in the Chamber of Deputies (Source: Italian Ministry of the Interior)
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Meanwhile, the center-left coalition is expected to lag far behind the expected 26% turnout by the Fdl, Deborah Seraciani, deputy leader of the Democratic Party (PD), which leads the center-left coalition, said it was a sad evening. for Italy.
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He also said that the right “does not take control of the whole country even if it gets a majority in Congress”.
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After the powerful cabinet of Prime Minister Mario Draghi, which he had headed for a year and five months, was overthrown in July, the Italian left was in a grim mood even before the general election.
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The Five Star Movement Party, led by Giuseppe Conte, who is currently in third place in the expected turnout, is promoting various center-left policies, but is not entirely in agreement with the leader of the Democratic Party of Letta (PD).
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Meanwhile, according to the Italian Ministry of the Interior, voter turnout in these general elections was an all-time low at 63.82% just before closing. This is a decrease of almost 10 percentage points compared to the 2018 figure. In particular, the turnout was low in the southern regions such as Sicily.
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Italy is a founding member of the EU and a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). However, if he looks at Meloni’s remarks on the EU so far, he looks similar to Hungarian Prime Minister Orban Viktor, who is a nationalist.
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All of Meloni’s political allies have close ties to Russia. Silvio Berlusconi, 85, leader of the Avanti Italia (FI) party, said last week that President Vladimir Putin had no choice but to invade Ukraine under certain circumstances, and Lega leader Salvini (Lega) put in doubt the Western sanctions against Russia.
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In addition, Italy had previously promised reforms in exchange for receiving nearly 200 billion euros (about 275 trillion won) in aid from the EU in the form of loans and grants to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. Meloni, however, wants to reconsider the reform, saying that the current energy crisis has changed the situation.
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On the night of the 25th there is a dark air in the field of the Democratic Party (PD) led by Enrico Letta.
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Meanwhile, the head of the political bureau, Balaz Orban, a close long-time collaborator of the Hungarian Prime Minister Orban, immediately congratulated the Italian right-wing party on the victory, saying: “We need comrades with a vision and a common approach to the challenges that Europe faces more than ever. ”
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In France, MP Jordan Badella, leader of the far-right National Union (RN) party, said Italian voters taught European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen a lesson in humility. Earlier, Commissioner von der Leyen had said that Europe would have “means” to respond if Italy went “in a difficult direction”.
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However, Professor Gianluca Pasarelli of La Sapienza University in Italy said in an interview with the BBC that “many policies will be implemented that limit the rights of LGBT people and immigrants”.
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For example, Salvini, the leader of the League, who had implemented anti-refugee policies during his past as Interior Minister, is likely hoping to become Interior Minister again to prevent refugee ships from entering the port via the Libya.
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Meanwhile, in Italy, due to the 2020 constitutional amendment, the total number of seats in both the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies has been reduced to 600 seats, about a third of the previous one, which seems to have worked in favor of the coalition. right.
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The Italian public broadcaster Rai announced that the exit poll showed that the three parties of the right-wing coalition would have obtained from 227 to 257 seats out of 400 in the House of Representatives and from 111 to 131 in the Senate. In response, Salvini said the right-wing coalition in both houses appeared to have been victorious.
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Furthermore, following the investigation, the center-left coalition is expected to occupy only 78-98 seats in the House of Representatives and 33-53 seats in the Senate.
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