Georgia Meloni will become the first female premier.
Coalition of right-wing and far-right parties wins the Italian parliamentary elections. Brothers of Italy leader Georgia Meloni will become the country’s first female prime minister. The results of the vote will be reflected in the state’s support for Ukraine.
The portal shared the preliminary results of the elections the Republic.
The right-wing coalition won 44% of the votes. The Brothers of Italy received 26%, while two other parties in the bloc, Liga and Forward Italia, have respectively 8 and 9%.
The center-left parties won about 27%. Another 15% received the Five Star Movement. Action-Italia Viva also entered parliament with a figure of around 8%.
“We must remember that we are not at the end, but at the beginning. It is from tomorrow that we must prove our worth,” Meloni said Monday morning to the jubilant supporters of her nationalist party, the Brothers of Italy.
Edition The Washington Post analyzed how the election results in Italy will affect support for Ukraine. Among Europeans, assistance to our state is losing popularity as increasingly acute economic problems arise. Meloni in his rhetoric supported the fight against Russian aggression. However, his closest allies sympathize with the Kremlin. They are the leader of the “Lega” Matteo Salvini and Silvio Berlusconi, an old friend of Vladimir Putin. The first questioned the effectiveness of sanctions against Russia and the second defended the president of the attacking country.
Polls show that Russia’s popularity among right-wing populist forces in Europe has declined significantly since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. However, they still sympathize much more strongly with the Kremlin than their opponents.
Elections in Italy: key details
“Brothers of Italy” party led by Georgia Meloni is more right-wing than any major Italian political movement since its former fascist leader Benito Mussolini
EU leaders, who seek to remain united after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, fear that Italy will be a more unpredictable partner than former Prime Minister Mario Draghi.
Meloni, as 68th Prime Minister, will face many challenges, such as rising energy costs.
The new Italian leader downplays his party’s post-fascist roots and portrays it as a traditional conservative group. He promised to support Western policy towards Ukraine and not to take unnecessary risks in an economy that has been hit hard by rising prices.
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