Giorgia Meloni’s victory gives wings to the French extreme right. The party he leads, the fascist-inspired Fratelli d’Italia, won the general election with 25% of the vote. More broadly, the far-right and right-wing coalition formed with Matteo Salvini’s Liga and Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia is best placed to seize power on the peninsula. She gets about 43% of the votes.
Barely to the announced results, Eric Zemmour, Marine Le Pen or Jordan Bardella reacted, who claim political lines more or less similar to that of Giorgia Meloni.
For Eric Zemmour, an example that “getting to power is possible”
The president of the Reconquista party, Eric Zemmour, sent “all my congratulations to Madame Meloni” and expressed “his joy for the Italian people. A proud and free people who refuse to die”, referring to his racist and conspiracy theory of the Great Replacement. .
The former presidential candidate also wants to see in the Italian elections a harbinger of his future success in France, while Fratelli d’Italia barely exceeded 4% in the 2018 legislative elections, where the Reconquest candidate has collected 7% last April.
“Despite the failure in 2018, Mrs. Meloni and the young party never gave up. (…) How not to look at this victory as proof that yes, coming to power is possible? in particular, she tweeted at Eric Zemmour.
He also noted that “we are aiming for the second victorious right-wing union in Europe in the last two weeks”, while he himself is in favor of an alliance of all French right-wing parties around “the question of identity”.
“A lesson in humility” for the European Union according to RN
Faced with the victory of who has every chance of becoming the first woman to take the reins of the Italian state, Marine Le Pen, who dreamed of a similar fate in the spring of the presidential elections, congratulated the victorious right-wing coalition. : “Congratulations to Giorgia Meloni and Matteo Salvini for resisting the threats of an undemocratic and arrogant European Union by winning this great victory.”
“The Italian people have decided to take their destiny into their own hands by electing a patriotic and sovereignist government,” analyzed the president of the National Grouping group in the National Assembly.
Anticipating the announcement of the results, Jordan Bardella relied on Giorgia Meloni’s victory song shortly before midnight on Sunday night to greet “a lesson in humility for the European Union which, through the voice of Mrs. Von Der Leyen, intended to dictate his vote.” “.
He was referring to “the tools” available to the EU mentioned Thursday by the president of the European Commission if “things go in a difficult direction” in Italy.
Perceived as a threat not only to Italian nationalists but also to their French counterparts, this statement has helped fuel Jordan Bardella’s mistrust of Brussels as he campaigns to become the new RN president.
Source: BFM TV
