[The Soup Nazi]

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

this is of course terible news, but she only has 25% of the vote and while italian governments are now more stable than in the previous century they rarely last 2 years anyway. so who knows what will come of this...

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Up Next: Italy

When Italy votes this Sunday, Giorgia Meloni and her far-right Brothers of Italy party are expected to win power. At the World Politics Review, Dave Keating sees Italy’s and Sweden’s elections as following the same trend, in which nationalist parties revamp their images and policies to become palatable.

Like France’s Marine Le Pen, “the Sweden Democrats and Brothers of Italy are no longer calling for their countries to withdraw from the EU,” Keating writes. “Instead, many Euroskeptics want to devolve a range of powers from Brussels back to national capitals, while using the bloc’s strengths to pursue their policy priorities, like an even tougher EU-wide approach to migration.”

Meloni rejects any link to fascism, and in a recent Washington Post interview, she stressed social conservatism—Meloni opposes gay adoption, for instance—and a need for open debate. But a Brothers of Italy win could sweep extremists to power, Jamie Mackay opines in The Guardian.

Then again, some say Italy is merely casting about in a characteristic way. “The fact that Giorgia Meloni is on the brink of power has … more to do with how easily Italian voters are seduced by anti-establishment candidates,” Venezuelan columnist and former trade-and-industry minister Moisés Naím writes for the Spanish daily El País, calling Italy “the European poster child for anti-politics.”