Italy: the Marche region, a stronghold of post-fascist politics

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Georgia Meloni, the probable future Italian Prime Minister, is anti-immigration, anti-abortion and hostile to lobby LGBT. Report in the Marche region, in Italy, which for two years has served as a “laboratory” for his party, Fratelli from Italy.

Giorgia’s Party Meloni tests its policy in the Marche region (Italy). Since the end of the war, this eastern region had always voted on the left, before switching to the extreme right two years ago. To his head figure one of Giorgia’s lieutenants Meloni. In the wake of the election, the new majority has accumulated controversy. Elected officials were photographed commemorating Mussolini’s takeover, with a menu tribute to the dictator.

One of their first measures was to limit the right to abortion. So now, in this region, the possibility of medical abortion is reduced to seven weeks against nine in the rest of the country. Family planning in the small town ofAscoli (Italy) is one of the few places that welcomes women, like a 44-year-old mother. She had an abortion last month in extremis, thinking she would never make it. In the hospital of his city, no doctor agrees to perform an abortion.


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