Giorgia Meloni’s Fratelli d’Italia party, which has neo-fascist roots, led in opinion polls and was projected to win most seats as voting closed last night. Now Italy is on the verge of electing its first woman PM, and first far-right leader since WWII.
Italy is on the verge of electing its first woman prime minister and its first far-right leader since World War II after polls closed last night.
Giorgia Meloni’s Fratelli d’Italia party – which has neo-fascist roots – had led in opinion polls and was projected to win most seats as voting closed at 11pm. She is part of a right-wing alliance with anti-migrant League leader Matteo Salvini and Silvio Berlusconi, 85, the three-time premier who heads the Forza Italia party.
But if successful – and if president Sergio Mattarella invites the 45-year-old to form a government – negotiations on a coalition could take months.But complex electoral law rewards coalitions, and the Democrats failed to secure a similarly broad alliance.
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