Right-wing coalition places first in Italian election with 42 per cent of the vote, giving them a majority in both houses of Parliament, the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies
Giorgia Meloni’s upstart Brothers of Italy and its two coalition partners placed first in the Italian election, putting the European Union’s third-largest economy on course to take its most radical swing to the hard right since the Fascist era ended at the close of the Second World War and install the country’s first female prime minister.
Both Mr. Berlusconi and Mr. Salvini have expressed support for Russian President Vladimir Putin, creating fears in the NATO alliance that Opinion: The woman poised to be Italy’s next leader used to love Mussolini. Can we trust Giorgia Meloni? Already, Italy’s debt, at close to 150 per cent of gross domestic product, among the highest in the industrialized world, is considered close to unsustainable in a country prone to recession and suffering from population loss and almost no growth in per capita GDP in 20 years.
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