The FDI’s programme promises to respect Italy’s commitment to the NATO. Their conservative alliance has pledged its, quote
“full adherence to the process of European integration”
The FDI has strong ties to other far‐right parties, such as Vox in Spain. Hungarian Prime Minister, Victor Orbán, and Meloni have declared strong reciprocal sympathy. The FDI has also allied with the ultraright Polish Law and Justice Party in the European parliament.
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Many centrist, pseudo‐sceptic voices in Italy fall for the fact that since Meloni is the first ever woman to be elected as Italian Prime Minister, it must mean that her success is positive for women in Italy.
The declared anti‐feminist FDI has voted in the past against proposals to protect women from violence and discrimination, because they are against, quote
“Gender Ideology”
Less than half of all women have a job in Italy, and that gap is likely going to widen, since Meloni promised to cut taxes for larger families, and in general to incentivize and boost the birth rate. Already in some regions where the right parties rule, people are being paid to not abort, and anti‐abortion groups have been allowed into hospitals.
And what about all the women without Italian citizenship anyway? Just recently, Meloni tweeted a video of a girl getting raped, to make the point that immigrants are bad.
I would like to draw attention to one particular quote from Meloni:
“The Italian right has handed fascism over to history for decades now, unambiguously condemning the suppression of democracy and the ignominious anti‐Jewish laws, and equally unambiguous of course is our condemnation of Nazism and communism, the latter being the sole totalitarian ideology of the 20th century that still is in power in some countries, surviving its tragic failures, and that the left has a hard time condemning perhaps partly because it has received generous funding from the Soviet Union for decades.”
It’s no wonder that she included this in her speech appealing to the center. Like most centrists, certain neofascists will likewise offer a shallow condemnation of German Fascism (at least in public), equating it with communism, which they spend far more time and energy condemning. In this way, centrists and gussied up neofascists are more similar than either would like to admit, and it’s a strategy that has the effect of making neofascism even more tolerable for centrists.