Meloni’s call for a blockade comes as more than 42,000 unvetted foreigners have arrived in Italy so far this year, up from nearly 30,000 in the same period last year, per figures from the Italian interior ministry.
If the forecast is correct, the conservative, anti-establishment coalition could secure 245 out of 400 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 127 of 200 seats in the Senate, garnering a comfortable majority in both legislatures.
Just as British conservatives have given up on being conservative, the right-wing press has surrendered any attempt to be right-wing. Given that their popularity is in freefall, and Meloni’s is approaching escape velocity, they would do well to consider their unthinking assaults.
During the June local elections in Italy, Giorgia Meloni welcomed the return of a “healthy [political] bipolarity” with a clearly identified Right and Left.
“For years we have been calling for a Europe that is strong and proud of its identity and its roots. Instead, today we are paying the consequences of an increasingly weak Europe,” Ms. Meloni bemoaned.
Over the weekend of February 18th, the Foro Madrid concluded its first meeting in Bogotá, Colombia. An initiative of the “Fundación Disenso,” a think-tank set up by Spain’s VOX party, Foro Madrid brought together leaders from political parties and organizations throughout Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries. Participants included ex-Peruvian Vice President Francisco Tudela, Colombian Senator […]
Italy, it seems, has for some time abandoned politics and sanity and given full power to non-elected technocrats and politicians. Giorgia Meloni offers a way back to normalcy.
At this time, no coalition has endorsed a candidate. While the current Prime Minister Mario Draghi is the favourite for the presidential election, his potential election would cause as many problems as it would solve.
The choice of the Italian president is the result of complicated negotiations between the different parties. For many years, the position has remained in the hands of the centre-left, but the right-wing, which nowadays has a relative majority, may be able to win the vote for the first time since the demise of the Christian democracy in the 1990s.
The Italian birthrate, which has been well below replacement levels for over four decades, fell to a record low of 1.16 births per woman in 2020 as would-be parents grappled with socially oppressive and economically ruinous COVID-19 lockdowns.
