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2022-09-26 Europe
Meloni's ‘Right-Wing Alliance’ Wins Clear Majority In Italian Elections
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First Sweden, now Italy.

Europe's unelected authoritarian ruler, Ursula von der Leyen, is not going to be happy: according to early exit polls out of Italy's national election, the right-wing bloc of Giorgia Meloni - which the ultra-left wing press just can't stop comparing to Mussolini - is set for a historic, if largely expected, victory and a clear majority (if, however, not a super-majority) which will propel Meloni to the top of the Italian government as the country's next prime minister, ushering in a historic right-wing shift for a country that - like Sweden until two weeks ago - has traditionally been very left-wing.

Meloni's Brothers of Italy party, which won just 4% of the vote during the last national election in 2018, won the biggest share of the vote in Sunday’s parliamentary elections with around 22.5%-26.5% of the vote according to an exit poll released by Italian national broadcaster Rai. She is now set to become prime minister but would require approval from junior partners in her coalition to assume the role.

According to an exit poll from Rai, Meloni's alliance which includes Salvini's League and Berlusconi's Forza Italia will win around 43% of the vote. The Center-Left alliance will have just 25.5%-29.5% of the vote, while the 5 Star movement has 13.5%-17.5% of the final vote.

Italy’s electoral system, which strongly favors parties that run as part of a coalition, is expected to help the right to an ample majority in both houses of Parliament: with 228 votes in the Lower House and 115 seats in the Senate (according to SkyTG24), Meloni will have a majority as just 104 votes are required.

As the WSJ notes, the Italian election is "the first big test of the European Union’s political cohesion as it confronts Russia’s attempt to redraw the continent’s post-Cold War order. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s restriction of natural-gas deliveries has sparked an energy-price crunch that, combined with other inflationary pressures, is expected to push much of Europe into a recession this winter."

Meloni replaces former Goldman Sachs partner and ECB technocrat and globalist, Mario Draghi, and will be the country’s first female prime minister.

The likely right-wing government will face difficult decisions over how to protect Italian households and businesses from sky-high prices for natural gas and electricity. While Italy’s parlous public finances allow limited scope for fiscal largess, if the UK is any example - and it is - Italy will engage in a similar strategy of targeted and debt-funded fiscal stimulus which will lead to a blowout in Italian debt, a further plunge in the euro and much chaos everywhere.

Italy's massive debt of roughly 150% of GDP, combined with Italy’s weak long-term growth record, makes the country vulnerable to bond-market selloffs if investors lose confidence in the soundness of Rome’s fiscal policies, and dependent on the European Central Bank to keep its bond yields stable. ECB support has typically been conditional on Rome following cautious budget policies and enacting economic overhauls aimed at improving growth. In other words, the Berlusconi example of 2011 is still vivid - if Meloni's policies displease the ECB, Christine Lagarde will simply refuse (or forget) to buy Italian bonds, sparking Europe's next sovereign debt crisis at the worst possible moment.

During the election campaign, Meloni tried to reassure voters and investors that she will keep Italy’s mammoth debt under control and won’t question the country’s foreign alliances or support for Ukraine. Expect all of that to change tomorrow.



Who is Giorgia Meloni, the star of the Italian far right?

[DW] With the populist slogan "Italy and Italian people first!" Meloni called for less European bureaucracy, low taxes and a halt to immigration. Her critics warn she is flirting with Italy's fascist history.
Posted by Frank G 2022-09-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [26 views ]  Top

#1 "Italy and Italian people first!"

How much more far right do you want? Should she start requiring all Jews to wear stars in public?
Posted by Goober Wittlesbach1280 2022-09-26 05:00||   2022-09-26 05:00|| Front Page Top

#2 It's the fcuking moslems who worry about far right. South asian and Sub-Saharan trash. This 'oh the Jews will be in danger!' schtick fools nobody. Nobody in goddamn Europe is bothered about Jews being attacked every week by mohammed kissers. A far right leadership ensures there's little to no moslems coming in. So what if it doesn't snuggle up to Israel and dance the hora?

And every country's leader should be about their own majority first. That's not fascism, that's loyalty to the folks who made you.
Posted by Dron66046 2022-09-26 05:19||   2022-09-26 05:19|| Front Page Top

#3 Goober's a version of our "Concerned Conservatives". If you put Italians first, you're obviously a horrible individual, hmmm?
Posted by Frank G 2022-09-26 07:02||   2022-09-26 07:02|| Front Page Top

#4 Wake me when they go to war with Ethiopia.
Posted by DarthVader 2022-09-26 08:46||   2022-09-26 08:46|| Front Page Top

#5 
Posted by trailing wife 2022-09-26 10:14||   2022-09-26 10:14|| Front Page Top

#6 Should she start requiring all Jews to wear stars in public?

Mussolini’s Italy was not interested in singling out and rounding up Jews until Hitler became seriously demanding — and then quite a few were hidden by their neighbours.

I stand by every word of Dron’s comment. As a Jew, I am considerably more concerned by the European culture of the past two decades that believes daily Moslem attacks on Jews and other natives the kind of thing the civilized must submit to without a murmur, without police intervention or news report. In the first year or two after Angela Merkel’s 2015 invitation to the “Syrians” we had weekly roundups of such crimes, but thereafter it became noticeable that only the most egregious attacks were allowed by the authorities to be noticed, lest the reporters be denounced as “racist”.

If, as prime minister, Ms Meloni can manage to arrest and expel from Europe those foreigners who take violence against the dhimmis as their natural right, even if she accomplishes nothing else, I will be satisfied. Also, I’ve noticed that about half of those on the “far right” admire Israel and want to be its friend, unlike much of the European political establishment — which far prefers the Palestinians and Iran, for reasons that apparently range from venal to vicious.
Posted by trailing wife 2022-09-26 10:33||   2022-09-26 10:33|| Front Page Top

#7 
Posted by Cholutle Thrans9751 2022-09-26 10:38||   2022-09-26 10:38|| Front Page Top

#8 Mods... Clean up on aisles #7 and #8. Consider it vermin removal
Posted by magpie 2022-09-26 11:04||   2022-09-26 11:04|| Front Page Top

#9 Done
Posted by Frank G 2022-09-26 11:07||   2022-09-26 11:07|| Front Page Top

#10 I am unclear what the image of three dead mice is supposed to communicate.
Posted by trailing wife 2022-09-26 13:54||   2022-09-26 13:54|| Front Page Top

#11 Vermin removal, I suspect
Posted by Frank G 2022-09-26 14:03||   2022-09-26 14:03|| Front Page Top

#12 by one of the other Mods
Posted by Frank G 2022-09-26 14:04||   2022-09-26 14:04|| Front Page Top

#13 Funny how the left is really afraid of strong women.
Posted by Regular joe 2022-09-26 14:07||   2022-09-26 14:07|| Front Page Top

#14 
A trifecta of rodent fatalities.
Tired of pavlovian banalities.
They perished making a point,
the point yet unmade,
but reminding us us
of our posts' mortalities.
Posted by Dron66046 2022-09-26 15:17||   2022-09-26 15:17|| Front Page Top

#15 Funny how the left is really afraid of strong women.

TW frightens us all.
Posted by Skidmark 2022-09-26 17:21||   2022-09-26 17:21|| Front Page Top

#16 CBS Mornings ties new 'far-right' Italian PM to fascism: She 'rejects the label but not the slogans'
Posted by Skidmark 2022-09-26 17:22||   2022-09-26 17:22|| Front Page Top

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