Giorgia Meloni has machine gun flow. A burst against the left, another against justice. Then taxes and the media take their turn. The president of Fratelli d’Italia (“Brothers of Italy”) crosses the platform, toned, dressed in a turquoise jacket, her microphone in hand and the words like bullets.
The public of Turin is delighted, on this evening of September 13th. The effects of the sleeves and the pouts of a juggler of the candidate in the Italian legislative elections of September 25 contribute to her success. The crowd roars with delight as she denounces “mass immigration” and promises to impose a “naval blockade” in the Mediterranean to prevent migrant boats from docking.
The Roman lowers her voice. His flow calms down (a little). “They need to make monsters out of us…” she sighs. ” They “ ? The public understands. The left, the media, especially foreign ones. ” There is a fake news that turn, she continues. We would like to abolish the right to abortion! » A nervous laugh escapes him. “Nobody ever said that!” », she shouts.
The 45-year-old MEP never stops trying to reassure. The last step before power is often the most difficult to take. No, its ambition would simply be to defend “the freedom to make another choice, if you don’t want to have an abortion”. “I’ve seen so many women who didn’t have that choice. Can I help them? I will help them! “.
From the height of her meter sixty-three, the forty-year-old does not seem overwhelmed by the imposing Carignan Palace, which dominates the Place Carlo Alberto, nor by the Campana Palace, just opposite. The latter housed the local headquarters of the National Fascist Party in the time of Benito Mussolini. Some ex-faithful Duce will found after the war the Italian Social Movement, the ancestor of Fratelli d’Italia, which she never denied.
Fund “help centers”
Giorgia Meloni is now the favorite, according to the polls, to become president of the council within the coalition she leads with Matteo Salvini’s Northern League and Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia. The former youth minister would be the first representative of the extreme right to take up this post since the Second World War. The first wife, too. A sham victory for the Italians, as this ultra-conservative poses the risk of a brutal setback for women’s rights on the Peninsula.
Placed away from the crowd, in the VIP area, Maurizio Marrone applauds his boss. This colossus with a full beard, cut like a Knight of the Temple, is regional councilor of Piedmont. He is at the origin of the vote, in April, of a fund of 400,000 euros granted by the region to associations provie. These organisations, which have branches in the Italian equivalent of Family Planning, will have to use the money to encourage “moms in difficulty” who wish to abort to abandon their project. “A hundred babies may be born”, rejoiced the elected official on his Facebook page, counting on a check for 4,000 euros per woman. “Life always wins” he swaggered.
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