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The coalition of right-wing parties together won more than 43% of the votes, and the leader of the winning party, Giorgia Meloni, 45, who began her political career in the neo-fascist “Movimento Sociale Italiano” founded by Mussolini’s associates after war, they risk being chosen as the future head of the government.
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If all goes according to plan, Meloni will become Italy’s first female leader at a symbolic moment in the country’s history, but women’s rights activists are skeptical of her political activism on gender issues. Other Italian politicians have pointed out that Meloni serves as the charismatic face behind Italy’s “macho” right-wing political forces, which are still dominated by men like Berlusconi and Salvini.
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