The frontrunner in Italy's election believes the way to success is through voters' pockets.
Her supporters say "she makes sense".
In an interview with Italy's Corriere della Sera newspaper, Ms Meloni insisted there were no "nostalgic fascists, racists or anti-Semites in the Brothers of Italy DNA", and that she had always got rid of "ambiguous people" from her party. Ms Cerroni also described the right wing's proposal for a flat tax rate as an "injustice, promoting inequality".
Ceramics factories are massively energy intensive and he told me his gas and electricity bills had shot up 1000% over the last year. Unless the new government formed after this election acted fast to help businesses, he said, his factory could face closure within months.The energy bill for this ceramics factory was said to have shot up by 1000% over the last year
Both men have historically close ties to Russia. Berlusconi once gave Vladimir Putin a bedcover emblazoned with a huge photo of them both. They have even gone skiing together.But Stefano Stefanini, Italy's former ambassador to Nato, told me that where foreign policy was concerned, Italy had been consistent for the past 70 years. The international community should keep an eye on the new government, but also give it a chance, he said.
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