These are the promises of Italy’s right – and they cost them

Silvio Berlusconi (left), Giorgia Meloni and Matteo Salvini at an event in 2019

The three major parties of the centre-right bloc currently have more than 45 percent of the votes in Italy in the polls.

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Rome “Ready to get Italy back on its feet” is written above Giorgia Meloni’s election platform. The document from her party Fratelli d’Italia is 40 pages long, described as a trip for “patriots and conservatives”.

This journey is scheduled to begin on September 25: according to all the polls, Meloni’s party will then win the early parliamentary elections in Rome and Meloni will be the head of government of the third largest euro country. To do this, they should forge a right-wing alliance with the right-wing Lega and the center-right party Forza Italia (FI).

The latest election forecasts see Meloni’s party clearly ahead, with 24 to 25 percent of the votes. There would also be eleven to twelve percent of the Lega and about eight percent of Forza Italia. Together, the right-wing trio would have a comfortable majority in both houses of parliament.

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