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Giorgia Meloni shares the Putin view of history

Giorgia Meloni, 45, has won the Italian general election by drive and sheer personality, but her victory was a huge step backwards for the country. Meloni’s politics has direct lineage to those of another leader of Italy, Benito Mussolini , Il Duce, the Fascist who ruled from 1921 to 1943.

Evening Standard

Rishi Sunak’s unlikely friendship with Italian PM Giorgia Meloni — a symbol of the Tories’ right-wing turn?

She’s spoken highly of Mussolini and is known for her nativist views — what does it say about Sunak’s political intentions? Katie Strick reports

Evening Standard

Giorgia Meloni: Who is the far-right leader set to become Italy’s first female prime minister?

Brothers of Italy figurehead opposes LGBT+ rights and immigration but insists fascism is dead

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Italy far-right leader Giorgia Meloni set to be country's first female leader

Ms Meloni's Brothers of Italy party, which has neo-fascist roots, is set to win around 26 per cent of the vote after Sunday's election, while her wider coalition secured a clear majority in parliament.

ABC News

Giorgia Meloni's far-right views and opinion on Mussolini as she claims win in Italy

Italy is on course for its first woman premier after the results of an election on Sunday appeared to favour a right-wing coalition led by Giorgia Meloni's Brothers of Italy party

Daily Mirror

EXPLAINER: How a party of neo-fascist roots won big in Italy

The Brothers of Italy party has won the most votes in Italy’s national election

The Independent UK

Giorgia Meloni: Who is the far-right leader set to become Italy’s first female prime minister?

Brothers of Italy figurehead opposes LGBT+ rights and immigration but insists fascism is dead

The Independent UK

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Who is Giorgia Meloni? Keir Starmer to discuss immigration with Italian PM in Rome

The British prime minister will be hoping to build on the relationship with the Right-wing leader established by Rishi Sunak

Evening Standard

Commentary: Meloni’s influence could be greater in Europe than at home

Giorgia Meloni’s triumph as the first woman to lead a winning party in the macho world of Italian politics is not a moment to celebrate, for she has brought the far right into the European mainstream, precisely a century after her Fascist forebear Benito Mussolini seized power.

Tribune News Service

What does far-right mean in politics? Giorgia Meloni set to win Italy election

The Brothers of Italy party would be Italy’s most right-wing government since World War II

Evening Standard

Giorgia Meloni vows to ‘unite’ Italy as her far-right coalition makes history

The alliance led by Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party predicted to win over 40 per cent of votes

The Independent UK

Italy election: Far-right leader Giorgia Meloni declares victory, vows to reunite country

Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party has won over 44 per cent of votes

The Independent UK

Nationalist Meloni set to smash Italy's glass ceiling, become premier

In 2019, Giorgia Meloni made a speech that came to define her: "I am Giorgia, I am a woman, I am a mother, I am Italian, I am a Christian, and you can't take that away from me," she told cheering supporters.

Reuters

‘Mother, Italian, Christian’: Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s far-right leader on the cusp of power

Giorgia Meloni has successfully rebranded her Brothers of Italy party as the country’s dominant conservative force, without fully expunging its post-fascist roots. Her right-wing coalition was on course to win a majority of seats after Sunday’s general election, making her the favourite to become Italy’s first female prime minister –…

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Giorgia Meloni could make history as Italy's first female PM. She would also be its first far-right leader since Benito Mussolini

Giorgia Meloni has risen from political obscurity to potentially become Italy's first far-right female leader. But her critics warn her ascension comes at a fragile time in Europe and evokes memories of Italy's fascist past.

Al Jazeera

Will a right-wing win push Italy towards Russia?

Italy’s national election on Sunday will likely bring to power parties with historically friendly ties to the Kremlin.

The Conversation

Giorgia Meloni and the return of fascism: how Italy got here

The rise of far-right politician Giorgia Meloni has left many outside Italy asking how her brand of what many argue is fascism can achieve such prominence in a country that has experienced life under the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini. The answer can be traced back to a recent normalisation of…

Los Angeles Times

She could become Italy’s first female leader — and its first far-right one since Mussolini

FLORENCE, Italy — Giorgia Meloni has been called a fascist, an extremist and — to an extent — a de facto heir to 20th century dictator Benito Mussolini.

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Italy: The hard right nears the reins of power

There's an election in Italy this Sunday, almost exactly 100 years after Benito Mussolini's "blackshirts" marched on Rome and brought the first fascist dictator to power.

Foreign Affairs

Italy’s Election Paradox

America and the EU should root for a far-right populist.

Salon

Giorgia Meloni boosts far-right in Italy

Meloni leads Fratelli d’Italia, or Brothers of Italy – a party whose lineage traces back to fascists

Newsroom.co.nz

Italy faces threat of its most right-wing government since Mussolini

Giorgia Meloni looks to have the best chance of becoming PM. But it's more likely to mean business as usual rather than heralding a fascist revolution, says Oliver Hartwich

The Conversation

Giorgia Meloni – the political provocateur set to become Italy's first far-right leader since Mussolini

In the autumn of 1922, Benito Mussolini, the ambitious and charismatic founder of the Fascist Party, became Italy’s youngest prime minister – seizing power in a march on Rome that ushered in a dark period of totalitarian rule.

The Guardian - UK

Why Italy is on verge of electing its first far-right leader since second world war

Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy draw on a vein of fascism in a country that – unlike Germany – has never had to confront its past

The Independent UK

John Adams sets Shakespeare's play about love and politics

When composer John Adams decided to base his new work on Shakespeare’s “Antony and Cleopatra,” he was aware that the project might evoke an unhappy chapter in opera history

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