Italian Voters Appear Ready to Turn a Page for Europe

By artappraiser on Sat, 09/24/2022 - 5:47pm |

By Jason Horowitz from Rome @ NYTimes.com, Sept. 24

With the hard-right candidate Giorgia Meloni ahead before Sunday’s election, Italy could get its first leader whose party traces its roots to the wreckage of Fascism

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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/24/world/europe/italy-election-fascism-meloni.html

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Far-right leader Giorgia Meloni’s electoral alliance appeared headed to take 45% of the vote in both chambers of Italy's Parliament. Meloni’s party would need to form a coalition with her main allies to command a solid majority in Parliament.https://t.co/4jiCLMNEzi
— The Associated Press (@AP) September 25, 2022

Breaking News: Giorgia Meloni's hard-right party leads voting in Italy, leaving her poised to be prime minister. https://t.co/OZejn4AAUI
— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 25, 2022

by artappraiser on Sun, 09/25/2022 - 7:26pm

Pope urges Italians to help migrants as far right tipped to win election https://t.co/LymeRDFCkz
— The Guardian (@guardian) September 25, 2022

by artappraiser on Sun, 09/25/2022 - 8:03pm

President of the Heritage Foundation:

If exit polls are right, then conservatives will come to power in Italy, just weeks after conservatives in Sweden won. This can be a trend: conservatives everywhere need to define the choice as what it is—US vs THEM, everyday people vs globalist elites, who’ve shown they hate us.
— Kevin Roberts (@KevinRobertsTX) September 25, 2022

by artappraiser on Sun, 09/25/2022 - 8:18pm

examples of echoes of what he said

If exit polls are correct, Anti-Woke candidate, Giorgia Meloni will become Italy’s first female Prime Minster.

We need to replicate the success of the Italian-right, across Europe. #EuropeAwake pic.twitter.com/7CbTVsw3k9
— Jolene Bunting (@jolenebuntinguk) September 25, 2022

@jolenebuntinguk Italians Are Brothers and They Don't Want Anymore To Be Part of the francogermanic euroislamofascist4reich, I feel Spanish are following too. So many good generations since 1990's lost & their good living were ruined by these hunic impotents. pic.twitter.com/9jwSWDF9Ll
— Arthur Welsley (@WellingtonDuk) September 26, 2022

To all the Italians reading me - big congratulations!

Hopefully the country will be driven in the right direction and other European countries will take notes as well! pic.twitter.com/rLTBOeigW8
— UBERSO (@UBERSOY1) September 26, 2022

Italians Tell EU Leader Ursula Van der Leyen to POUND SAND – Reject Her Threats and Globalist Poison and Vote in Giorgia Meloni https://t.co/B1xAWOBGQ4
— World News Guru (@worldnews_guru) September 26, 2022

History is written! Despite Ursula von der Leyen's unworthy and dirty threats, Italians vote en masse for the far right. Giorgia Meloni first female premier in the history of Italy. pic.twitter.com/azjKug2xVm
— RadioGenova (@RadioGenova) September 25, 2022

by artappraiser on Sun, 09/25/2022 - 8:37pm

Fukuyama:

Reason for hope… https://t.co/VO4BohRbLP
— Francis Fukuyama (@FukuyamaFrancis) September 26, 2022

by artappraiser on Sun, 09/25/2022 - 10:43pm

Thread
Let me explain something about the Italian elections for all the non Italians who just read MSM.
1) the R coalition got @ 42% of the vote of 64% Italians who voted (the lowest number ever).
2) 36% of Italians did NOT vote. Many lost hope during the Berlusconi years /1
— Marina Archer (@DrMarinaArcher) September 26, 2022

when there was no REAL opposition and in the end so-called progressives colluded with B in many ways. The system is very corrupt. Many young people did not vote because they "did not like any of the options." They do not get that the least worst actually still exists. /2
— Marina Archer (@DrMarinaArcher) September 26, 2022

3) Italian students and workers who could not travel to their hometown of residence were NOT allowed to vote.
Big failure of the so-called center left (weak and not caring about the issues of citizens) created a situation where there was NO feasible coalition of all /3
— Marina Archer (@DrMarinaArcher) September 26, 2022

by artappraiser on Tue, 09/27/2022 - 1:36am

sarcasm -

Surprising trend; anyone know of any other country where voters are sorting this way based on education? https://t.co/2DngFTZofm
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) September 28, 2022

by artappraiser on Wed, 09/28/2022 - 6:43pm

Meloni is no fascist, argues @Damien_Phillips, and media hysteria precludes a more sensible discussion of policy https://t.co/KSkV58Jdlo
— The Critic (@TheCriticMag) October 3, 2022

by artappraiser on Mon, 10/03/2022 - 11:14am

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