ROME — Riding a meteoric rise, Giorgia Meloni with her nationalist party appeared well positioned to give Italy its first far-right-led government since World War II, according to projections based on a partial vote count Monday from elections for Parliament.
"Italy moves to the right,'' Italian daily La Stampa headlined its front page in an early Monday edition.
Projections based on just over one-fifth of votes counted from Sunday's balloting suggested that Meloni's Brothers of Italy, a party with neo-fascist roots, would win some 25% of the vote. That compared to some 19% by the closest challenger, the center-left Democratic Party of former Premier Enrico Letta. The projections on Italian state TV had a margin of error range of 2-5 percentage points.
Santiago Abascal, the leader of Spain's far-right Vox opposition party, celebrated Meloni's lead, tweeting that"millions of Europeans are placing their hopes in Italy." She"has shown the way for a proud and free Europe of sovereign nations that can cooperate on behalf of everybody's security and prosperity."
Meloni's party was forged from the legacy of a neo-fascist party formed shortly after the war by nostalgists of Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. Italy has had three coalition governments since the last election — each led by someone who hadn't run for office, and that appeared to have alienated many voters, pollsters had said.
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