Giorgia Meloni is expected to become Italy’s next prime minister in the September 25 general elections as her far-right Brothers of Italy party rides high in the polls, capitalising on widespread disillusionment with the status quo. FRANCE 24 reports.
Brothers of Italy has seen its support increase sixfold over the past five years, and Meloni has supplanted League leader and ex-interior minister Matteo Salvini as the standard-bearer of the Italian hard right.