The rolling populist tide against leftist policies just claimed its biggest European scalp yet.
By Tyler Durden: First Sweden, now Italy.
Europe's unelected authoritarian ruler, Ursula von der Leyen, is not going to be happy:
according to early exit polls out of Italy's national election, the
right-wing bloc of Giorgia Meloni - which the ultra-left wing press just
can't stop comparing to Mussolini - is set for a historic, if largely
expected, victory and a clear majority (if, however, not a
super-majority) which will propel Meloni to the top of the Italian
government as the country's next prime minister, ushering in a historic
right-wing shift for a country that - like Sweden until two weeks ago - has traditionally been very left-wing.
Meloni's
Brothers of Italy party, which won just 4% of the vote during the last
national election in 2018, won the biggest share of the vote in Sunday’s
parliamentary elections with around 22.5%-26.5% of the vote according
to an exit poll released by Italian national broadcaster Rai. She is now
set to become prime minister but would require approval from junior
partners in her coalition to assume the role.