Can anything stop Italy’s radical right?
Its opponents are struggling to put their egos aside
Italy’s politics can be bewilderingly complex. Five big parties and many small ones will compete in the general election on September 25th. Before that they will shuffle into an uncertain number of electoral alliances. Yet already the race to replace Mario Draghi’s fallen government is boiling down to one question. Is there anything her adversaries can do to prevent Giorgia Meloni (pictured), leader of the hard-right Brothers of Italy (fdi) party, from becoming the next prime minister?
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “Defeat foretold”
Europe August 13th 2022
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