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Who is Giorgia Meloni, the woman who could become prime minister of Italy

2022-08-03 10:23:35Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Who is Giorgia Meloni, the woman who could become prime minister of Italy
Giorgia Meloni

A plaque and a faded wreath commemorate anti-fascist resistance fighter Alberto Marchesi on Via della Scrofa in Rome, not far from the parliament seat in the historic center. In 1944 he was executed by the German SS in the Adreatine Caves.

This commemorative plaque is located to the left of the large arched gate in the yellow-painted palazzo. To its left there is a very small peciclas plate, which shows the headquarters of the neo-fascist party "Fratelli d'Italia" in this building. A surprising coincidence of these plaques next to each other.

In Via della Scrofa 39, since 1946, neo-fascist parties have had their headquarters. First the MSI movement, then the national alliance and now Fratelli d'Italia, which is named after the first line of the Italian national anthem. Giorgia Meloni, the president of the party, has attached great importance to staying in this historic building, where the followers of the former fascist leader Benito Mussolini entered and left.

According to her data, she has a definite attitude towards history: Meloni constantly says in her interviews that "dictator Mussolini was a multifaceted personality". There were also good things under Mussolini, this is still the opinion of some Italians.

A little distance

Meloni does not distance himself from fascism. In her autobiography she writes that she is aware that politically she is walking in a minefield: "We are children of our history. Of all our history. As for all other nations, our path is the one we have traveled, complex, much more complicated than we want to show."

The leader of the party rejects only the cult of the leader of fascism, she writes further. A symbol of fascists is constantly present, when Giorgia Meloni e.g. gives press conferences at the party headquarters.

Behind it stands the Frateli d'Italia logo: a stylized flame with Italian colors. This eternal flame figuratively burns at Mussolini's grave. "I have nothing to justify in my life. But in one out of three televised discussions, I'm asked to talk about history, not current politics. This is not right."

No more Roman salutes

In the preparations for the last election campaign, Giorgia Meloni instructed her party members in internal meetings to stop making extreme statements, to stop referring to fascism and, in the first place, to stop using the "Roman salute". the Hitler salute” with outstretched right hand. The party that can soon remove the prime minister from its ranks, must come out of the extreme end to position itself in the "right center".

Finally, Giorgia Meloni after the early parliamentary elections on September 25 will create a governing coalition with the right-wing parties "Lega" under Matteo Salvini and "Forza Italia", led by Silvio Berlusconi. Its goal is therefore a coalition with the facade of the civic right.

"That Meloni has achieved so much in Italy, it has to do with all those who decorate it. From the media, who insist on defining Salvini and Meloni as center-right, to Berlusconi and Grillini, who have brought him to power, and also the disoriented left, who have undermined and legitimized him", he thinks the Spanish journalist, Alba Sidera, who has been dealing with the topic of the right in Italy for years. "Meloni did not come out of nowhere. She has been preparing to become prime minister for years."

Neo-fascist functionaries

Giorgia Meloni, born in 1977, when she was only a 15-year-old student, joined the "youth front" of the neo-fascist party MSI, to give a sign against the terror of the extreme left in those years in Italy. She later led the far-right student union and in 2006 was elected to the Italian parliament. In 2008 she was the youngest minister of Italy. At the age of 31, she headed the Ministry of Youth in Silvio Berlusconi's government. Ten years ago, Giorgia Meloni founded the "Fratelli d'Italia" party, whose president she has been since 2014. In 2020, she also took over the presidency of the group of European parties "ECR", which includes, among others, the Polish PiS party.

Cigar populism

With the populist slogan "Italy and Italians first!" Meloni will now enter the electoral campaign. She wants more social benefits for families, less European bureaucracy, lower taxes, a ban on immigration. She wants to renegotiate EU contracts and Italy's membership in the eurozone monetary union. Abortions are rejected by her, as are marriages for all. A secretary for foreign languages ​​by profession, she has no experience in the field of economics and foreign policy. Throughout her career, she has only worked as a deputy and party functionary.

Conscious Radical

To the strong criticism regarding her person in the political camp of the left, Giorgia Meloni reacts redeemed in an article on Facebook. Writer Ginevra Bombani said in an interview for La7 television, "Meloni is maddened...she is surrounded by Nazis." Meloni, who was attacked, replied on Facebook that she regrets that they always present her "as a black woman".

Her detractors are simply desperate that she is so successful. It is ridiculous, she says, to put me in the context of Mussolini, Hitler or Putin. "I actually support Ukraine," says Meloni. In a television interview, she recommended her critics to take France or Germany as an example. Right-wing populist parties are successful there, and no one has made a scandal about it. "Why should it work differently in Italy?" In Germany, Meloni refers to the AfD party, which, although it lost the electorate in the last elections, is represented by ten percent.

In Europe, the president of "Fratelli d'Italia" aims for Italy to take the lead in reforming the EU into a freer economic union. French President Emmanuel Macron has weakened, as he lacks a majority in parliament. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is insecure, Giorgia Meloni said recently in an interview with RAI. Scholz does not have the same strength as his predecessor Angela Merkel, she says. So she hints that she intends to give direction. Meloni is married to a television journalist, who is careful to create her new serious image. \DW


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