Meloni makes history as coalition bags most votes

By Associated Press

Sep 27, 2022 12:03 am

ROME: A party with neo-fascist roots, the Brothers of Italy, won the most votes in Italy's national elections and looks set to deliver the South European country's first far-right-led government since World War 2 and make party leader Giorgia Meloni its first woman premier, near-final results showed on Monday.

Italy's lurch to the far right immediately shifted Europe's geopolitical reality, placing a euroskeptic party in a position to lead a founding member of the European Union and its third-largest economy.

THE ‘RIGHT’ STUFF? Giorgia Meloni, leader of the far-right Fratelli d’Italia (Brothers of Italy) party, holds a placard that reads "Thank you, Italy after she delivered an address at her organization’s campaign headquarters in the capital Rome on Monday, Sept. 26, 2022. AFP PHOTO

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