Italy’s right-wing bloc is on track to win a clear majority in both houses of parliament in this month’s elections, according to studies based on the latest opinion polls before the publication ban comes into force on Saturday.
The far-right Brothers of Italy party, which dominates the conservative alliance, will become the largest in the elections on September 25, according to the latest polls, which show it increasing its advantage over the center-left Democratic Party (PD).
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Leaders of the right-wing coalition held a rally in Rome on Thursday at the end of an unprecedented campaign that could bring a former admirer of Benito Mussolini to power.
After a devastating pandemic and financial support obtained from the European Union, Italians could put their fate in the hands of Giorgia Meloni , leader of the Fratelli d’Italia (Brothers of Italy).
Meloni could become the first post-fascist head of government to govern a founding country of the European Union.
“I am going to vote for Meloni, she has never betrayed me, I share her opinions 100%, I find her coherent,” Giuli Ruggeri, a 53-year-old unemployed woman who attended the rally in Piazza del Popolo, in the center of Rome, told AFP. the Italian capital.
‘La Meloni’, as they call her in Italy, 45, appears allied with the conservative formation Forza Italia (FI), of the elderly tycoon Silvio Berlusconi , and the anti-immigration League of Matteo Salvini , known for his heavy-handed politics against the humanitarian ships that rescue migrants in the Mediterranean.
The three leaders, appearing together for the first and last time this campaign, took turns haranguing their tens of thousands of assembled supporters.
Berlusconi, visibly diminished, spoke first: “Italy does not want to be governed by the left,” said the octogenarian, denouncing “fiscal oppression” and the “uncontrolled invasion” of immigrants.
Matteo Salvini set the goal of “governing well and together for five years”, pledging to “protect Italy and Italians”.
“We are ready, you will see it on Sunday,” he said, vowing to defend Italy’s “national interest” against Europe.
“We want a strong, serious and respected Italy on the international scene,” he said, also committing to launch “a reform of Italian institutions” towards a presidential regime that guarantees “stability” in a country known precisely for its governmental instability. .
For her part, Giorgia Meloni, whose name was chanted by supporters, gave a speech of more than half an hour.
“We want a strong, serious and respected Italy on the international scene,” he said, also committing to launch “a reform of Italian institutions” towards a presidential regime that guarantees “stability” in a country known precisely for its governmental instability. .
These three united forces could obtain an absolute majority of the seats both in the Chamber of Deputies and in the Senate, thanks to a comfortable advantage over Enrico Letta’s Social Democratic Democratic Party (PD), which failed to ally with either the center or the the left.
