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Giorgia Meloni is the new star of the Italian right. Given favorite in the polls, she could become the first woman to lead the government in Italy. Coming from a neo-fascist party, she declared in 1996 that she considered Mussolini as “a good politician”. The fascist regime defined by Mussolini lasted twenty years and ended badly. Allied with Hitler, in 1945 he left a weakened Italy, struck by defeat.
Its former militants tried to launch in 1946 the Movimento sociale italiano (MSI), a neo-fascist party, which claimed the social heritage of the fascist regime. The symbol is the tricolor flame. It is to this party that Giorgia Meloni joined at the age of 15. She participated in its transformation behind Gianfranco Fini, then in 2012 launched a new party, Fratelli d’Italia, which she has chaired since 2014. She is nostalgic for a Mussolini who would have viewed a woman with a very dim view of achieving head of Italy.