SILVIO BERLUSCONI WIKIPEDIA
MATTEO SALVINI WIKIPEDIA
GIORGIA MELONI WIKIPEDIA
(WARNING: SOME MATERIAL MAY BE DISTURBING IN NATURE)
In the 1990's Italian politics was revolutionized with the rise to power of media magnate Silvio Berlusconi.
Berlusconi, who once called himself a Socialist and supported the Socialist Party, rebranded himself as the leader of Forza Italia (Forward Italy). He took the name from a soccer team.
Berlusconi swept to victory gaining control over public media in addition to the private media already under his tutelage. His huge victory followed corruption scandals that engulfed the existing political parties in Italy,
Berlusconi had his day and his following for more than 15 years.
Meanwhile his enemies used the legal system against him with a slew of allegations financial and sexual.
But then came the economic downturn of 2008 and divisions in his political ranks eventually leading to Berlusconi's resignation as Prime Minister in 2011.
The "Right" in Italy would eventually find a new champion as the decade moved forward in the "Northern League" eventually spreading beyond its base in northern Italy to become simply "The League" led by Matteo Salvini.
Salvini would distinguish himself as a passionate opponent of illegal immigration.
When elections in 2018 made Salvini a major force in Italian politics alongside the Five Star Movement, an anti-Establishment party with leftward leanings, he decided to participate in a coalition government that would make him Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister.
This gave Salvini a platform to crack down on the movement of migrants across the Mediterranean into Italy.
Salvini drew anger and legal actions against him in response to his crackdown on migration.
Salvini chose to bring down his governmental alliance with the Five Star Movement which then sought an alliance with the Democratic Party locking Salvini out of government.
Salvini's hope of new elections from his move did not materialize.
Eventually in 2021 a new "technocratic" government led by the former President of the European Bank Mario Draghi was formed.
It got the support of Salvini and the League. Among other things the Draghi government introduced vaccine passports in Italy to deal with COVID.
The Draghi government finally brought down this summer losing its previous support from the now less popular Matteo Salvini and "The League".
In recent years a new party on "The Right" in Italy was slowly making it's rise.
The "Brothers of Italy" a party that traces its roots back to the Italian Social Movement (MSI) of those who followed Benito Mussolini the famous-infamous Fascist ruler of Italy.
The party's leader Giorgia Meloni began her political involvement in the youth group of the MSI at the age of 15.
She became the Minister of Youth in a government led by Silvio Berlusconi and in 2012 was one of the founders of the "Brothers of Italy" eventually becoming its president in 2014.
"Brothers of Italy" reached out aligning itself with "The League" of Salvini and eventually getting into a three party alignment of "The Right" with Berlusconi's "Forza Italia".
As she rose to power Italian media took notice of her plenty of notice of her when "Oggi" magazine published bikini pictures of Meloni. She left very little to hide in her string bikini.
The mainstream media has consistently raised the specter of an "extreme rightist" taking power their offense often coming from Meloni's defense of traditional family values...SKY NEWS UK STORY
Meloni distancing herself from Benito Mussolini and the Fascist past and trying to "mainstream" herself identifying with British philosopher Roger Scruton and speaking at the CPAC conference in Orlando earlier this year...
As the other luminaries on the Right in Italy as well as the Five Star Movement have faded in popularity Italian voters have found a new alternative in the "Brothers of Italy" and its leader Giorgia Meloni.
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