Giorgia Meloni, the hard-right leader who was sworn in as Italy’s first female prime minister on Saturday,
won the election on a campaign built around a promise to block migrant ships and support for traditional “family values” and anti-LGBTQ themes.
She heads an alliance of far-right and center-right parties, her own Brothers of Italy chief among them, and is set to form the most right-wing government Italy has seen in decades.
Meloni’s win in parliamentary elections last month suggests
the allure of nationalism remains undimmed in Italy – but her vow to take the country on a hard-right turn still leaves many uncertain what will happen next.
She might bear some far-back connection to the post-fascist legacy, but clearly that’s not the core of her political platform now.”
She got her political start in the movement Youth Front, a political organization with fascist roots.
Just across the market, Gloria, who was born and raised in Garbatella and helps her son at his Roman food stand, has very different views.
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What she has said until now terrifies me,” she told CNN.
“There are many people that connect with these kinds of conservative ideals because they are racist, because they are not progressive. I have three children and I wonder, will my daughter have the freedom to have an abortion if she wants, to be a lesbian?”
until Khan actually finds a way to charge you for the o2 you breathe.
