When Giorgia Meloni was running to become Italy’s first far-right head of government of the post-war era, she steeped her winning campaign in the sharply ideological rhetoric of national sovereignty, “traditional families" and fear of migrants.
Since taking office in September, Premier Meloni has toned down the bombast reflected in the slogans she shouted last year at a rally in Spain for a far-right ally — “ Yes to natural families! No to LGBT lobbies!" But her government and her party's lawmakers are still pursuing multiple far-right policies, including refusing to allow the names of some same-sex parents' to be on their children's birth records, broadening restrictions on surrogate pregnancies and even seeking to ban foreign words from government documents.
