As the Far Right Rises, Italy's Left is Missing in Action | | Matteo Tiratelli: Over the last hundred years, Italy has often offered a glimpse into our political future: Mussolini before Hitler, Berlusconi before Trump, and populism before it was fashionable. We can only hope that this election proves to be less prophetic.
The results from Sunday are bleak: a landslide victory for the far right, collapsing turnout, and the ongoing absence of a left alternative. The post-fascist Fratelli d'Italia (FDL) won 26% of the vote, gaining support far beyond the right's traditional northern strongholds. Together with the junior members of the rightwing coalition (Matteo Salvini's Lega on 9% and Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia on 8%), they will win a hefty rightwing majority in both the house and the senate.
Quite what Giorgia Meloni, Italy's first female prime minister, will do with that majority is harder to say. Her party, FDL, is an indirect descendent of the fascism of the 1940s. And while she clearly has no interest in organising squads of paramilitary thugs, she has resurrected the old slogan "God, fatherland and family" and continues to promote conspiracy theories about the "replacement" of the "white race".
A better model for understanding Meloni's politics is probably to be found in eastern Europe, with Poland's Law and Justice government or Viktor Orbán's Fidesz in Hungary. These parties' combinations of welfare chauvinism, authoritarian governance and social conservatism have inspired Meloni, just as they have the American right and France's Marine Le Pen. This is visible in the coalition's manifesto, which calls for a flat rate of income tax, free nursery schools and increases to child benefits, as well as vigorously defeding the heterosexual nuclear family. | |  | REPORT Protesters Call Out 'Environmental Racism' at New Statesman Event at Labour Conference by Simon Childs
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