Italians are expected to elect Giorgia Meloni as their first female, and first far-right, prime minister.
The coalition programme calls for tax cuts for individuals and businesses combined with higher pensions and benefits for families. Brussels will look closely at who the new coalition appoints as finance minister. With the ECB raising interest rates, Italy can ill afford widening bond spreads on its €2.7 trillion debt pile.
"Even so, it may be difficult to meet all the targets, and there could be substantial disagreements between the Italian government and the European Commission over whether milestones have been met." As a 19-year-old campaigning for the far-right National Alliance, she told French television that"Mussolini was a good politician, in that everything he did, he did for Italy."
She repeated the common far-right theme of conservatives becoming a besieged minority."Our individual freedom is under attack, our rights are under attack, the sovereignty of our nations is under attack, the prosperity and well-being of our families is under attack, our children’s education is under attack," she told the audience.
By contrast, Matteo Salvini, who used to wear t-shirts emblazoned with Putin’s face, has called for the EU to rethink its sanctions against the Kremlin. Into the vacuum stepped political entrepreneurs like Silvio Berlusconi and a new form of populism which allowed for the return of far-right parties marginalised since the War. The Italian Social Movement rebranded itself as the National Alliance and served terms in three coalition governments.
In 2019, Five Star entered a coalition with the centre-left Democratic Party , then in 2021, at the height of the pandemic, a government of national unity involving Five Star, the PD, Salvini’s Lega, and Berlusconi’s Forza Italia was formed under the technocratic leadership of former ECB president Mario Draghi."Meloni’s choice to stay outside Draghi’s coalition gave her a distinct advantage over both Five Star and Lega," writes Elettra Ardissino and Erik Jones in Foreign Affairs.
She's less 'right wing' than the Labour party were here in the 1990s. FakeNews
Well at least they werw voted in .unlike the fascists in EU .6 unelected neocons backed by Puppet media like RTE and finna fail and finna gale WEF lovers
What specifically makes her far right rte?
And History repeats itself..... any Death Camp survivors that are alive must be absolutely terrified at what they are seeing unfold again
The e u is supporting the nazis in Ukraine so whats another facist country in the pot
Great to see the first female prime minister of Italy 😊
Right decision as the EU is moving so far away from what we all signed up to. Never knew who EU president was, but now they have so much influence on my day to day. Go way.
You go girl, let’s bring down the EU & their WEF Nazi regime that want to starve and freeze us all to death
Mass uncontrollable immigration into Italy and Europe as whole is brining the rise of the far right
Blame the lack of an alternative. Blame not having meaningful growth for 15 years. Blame the establishment and its failures.
YIKES - Not surprised, when I was in Rome last year there was an anti EU protest with a few hundred people going on. With Sweden and Hungary, will this cripple the EU to make the right decisions I wonder?
So many russia-paid trolls in comments here, it's not even funny. Either that, or useful eejits helping to blow EU from inside... Think who you're supporting and where is this heading.
“Far right”? Go study before shouting nonsense How much did Europe pay Ireland for this outrageous campaign? Already the second post.. Is everyone scared that this Europe is gonna fail? I see. Think about Irish business dear RTE News, let us handle this, cheers muppets
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So democracy prevails! a fascist EU agenda in threatening funding is becoming clear if you don’t comply though
The radical Left helped this to happen. Refusal of some governments to acknowledge or listen to their people and shoving unpopular laws in the faces of their people. That's what is bringing the Right.
journalism 101 😂👇
The anyone who disagrees with me is far right argument 🙄
Too many fascists on this thread for a Sunday morning for me.
Is there no difference between right wing government and far right wing government as the media loves the term “far” yet never use it with reference to left wing parties.
If only we had a larger group of patriotic, critical thinking, common sense politicians that actually want to put their people first ahead of big corporations, here!!! We need a rising for Ireland!!! Get the snakes out of Leinster house !!
Tony Conolly articles are simple one sided crap..he is not a journalist he is a far-left agent.
Current heads of European Union are eurosceptic!!Far-left liberals crashed this continent.
Sweden first, now Italy. Fair play to them. Europe is witnessing the beginning of a big clean up. Ireland next.
Coming to Ireland soon please god , EU is failing due to authoritarianism and overreach....defundrte may finally become a reality.
Great stuff a good news day!
Expect the coalition to last a few months…
Forza Italia RaiNews
Hopefully the beginning of the end of neo liberalism.
“populist” 😂😂😂 no one ever won a contest by being unpopular 🙄
That's what happens when governments don't listen to its people
Obviously the majority of the Italian people are fed up of not being listened to and they have voted for the party who has
Come on Giorgia
tconnellyRTE Didn't even read it. Defund rte tax payer funded state propaganda. We should withhold the licence fee and use it for our energy costs over winter, listening to rte propaganda is notba priority.
tconnellyRTE If low tax, small government, Catholic traditional values, country first and pro life is far right, then please can we have that in Ireland?
tconnellyRTE Ireland in 2024, get usta it.
tconnellyRTE Any immigration policy thats less than open borders is far right in RTE'S view of the world.
tconnellyRTE Go Fratelli 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 dio , patria , familia.
tconnellyRTE RTÉ and the EU have a growing list countries to pick fights with. First Hungary, then Poland, now Sweden and next up Italy
tconnellyRTE Could RTE also refer to the ERG's takeover of the UK Tory Govt as a hard-right political coup? We have a hard-right Govt as our next door neighbour and that's going to create real problems for us! r4today C4News skynews Newsnight bbclaurak
tconnellyRTE So Italian politics has 'baffled and entertained' people for years, has it? That might have something to do with Italians THINKING FOR THEMSELVES, not doing what The State Broadcaster tells them to do.
tconnellyRTE So the studio narrative is 'Despite her party's neo-Fascist roots, Georgia Meloni' looks set to lead the next Italian government. Well having such a handicap never stopped Fine Gael, did it? Mind you, you never wrote such a script to describe them, did you?
tconnellyRTE Wow, concerned about open borders and letting in the dredges of Africa is far right now..this bs from the left is what Is driving people to vote for far right parties, the EU have no one to blame but themselves
tconnellyRTE When the left go far left the right go nazi. Hope they don't.
tconnellyRTE Come on 🇮🇹…go for it
tconnellyRTE Anyone who even questions the status quo is labelled 'far right' by the msm nowadays.
tconnellyRTE The truth, facts, common sense, science etc are also far right going by the lefts perspective.
tconnellyRTE Forza Italia!!!!! Forza FratellidItalia Two fingers to the wef
tconnellyRTE Calling them 'far-right' doesn't seem to be working
tconnellyRTE Cope harder
tconnellyRTE Can anyone remember a time when RTE didn’t include “FAR RIGHT” in every single story?
tconnellyRTE Define the 'far' bit Sure informed consent is now considered far right. 🤪
tconnellyRTE 'first far right prime minister' just going to ignore the whole Mussolini thing I see 😂
tconnellyRTE Any news on Irish government, who elected themselves,party's who lost the election are still in office.
tconnellyRTE Great to see it 👏👏👏
tconnellyRTE pity ireland doesn't have a woman like this, all we get are neo-liberal progressives and privately educated marxists
tconnellyRTE Rte Fake news
tconnellyRTE German influence of this cast away from reality far-lefts have to be removed from EU parliament. Sweden ,Italy ,Spain will join Poland against this german shite.
tconnellyRTE Ireland needs a Giorgia Meloni
tconnellyRTE How fragile is the WU that is cannot handle any member going against the prescribed ideology.
tconnellyRTE Go Italy🇮🇹!! Divine right action is counting on you!
tconnellyRTE The irony of the EU becoming more totalitarian as they boast about their “democratic values”
tconnellyRTE More nonsense. She's a common sense candidate
tconnellyRTE Of everything that is a question mark about the future, how the EU deals with and continues to work with, some of its Member States (end ex ones) will be fascinating. Will probably have to take the good old EU compromise to a new level.
tconnellyRTE The EU has started to crumble 2 years ago. They brought it on themselves. They were too clever and now there are easily over 50% of the population in the EU on to the unelected globalist technocrats.
tconnellyRTE Oh my god the Italian people are going to get the government they want to vote for!! How dare they vote for someone they want and not the establishment.
tconnellyRTE 'Lower taxes and tackling illegal immigration', is far right now?
tconnellyRTE Come on Italy, follow in Swedens footsteps. Show the rest of Europe that the rule of far left Globalists with their insufferable woke agendas and dangerous open border policies is over. It's the only way. 💪🏻
tconnellyRTE Could say the same of us , baffled and entertained, in a really bad way.
tconnellyRTE Rightly so.
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