{"id":1657398,"date":"2022-09-25T19:07:21","date_gmt":"2022-09-25T23:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1657398"},"modified":"2022-09-25T19:07:30","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T23:07:30","slug":"right-wing-populist-giorgia-meloni-set-to-become-italys-first-female-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/right-wing-populist-giorgia-meloni-set-to-become-italys-first-female-prime-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Right-Wing Populist Giorgia Meloni Set to Become Italy&#8217;s First Female Prime Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fright-wing-populist-giorgia-meloni-set-to-become-italys-first-female-prime-minister%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1657398&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>                Giorgia Meloni, head of the <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/dzsurdzsa-the-rise-of-the-populist-leader\">conservative populist<\/a> Brothers of Italy party, is set to become the country&#8217;s first right-wing prime minister since the second World War, and the country&#8217;s first female prime minister ever. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In Sunday&#8217;s exit polls, Meloni was predicted to win with 22-26 percent of the vote, beating her closest rival, former PM Enrico Letta of the center-left Democratic Party, reported <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-63029909\">BBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Voter turnout was relatively low, with only 64.7 percent of the registered voting population casting their choice by the time polls closed, said Italy&#8217;s interior ministry. Voting levels were especially poor in southern regions including Sicily.<\/p>\n<p>The Brothers of Italy party has seen a meteoric rise in popularity since 2018, when it received just 4 percent of the vote, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/polls-open-italy-right-wing-alliance-seen-winning-2022-09-25\/\"><em>Reuters<\/em> reported<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now, CBC reports that Meloni&#8217;s conservative alliance has a commanding lead, with 41-45 percent of the vote, well ahead of the left&#8217;s 25.5-29.5 percent.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meloni, who has been in the <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/italian-senate-video-game-final-fantasy\">Italian<\/a> Chamber of Deputies since 2006, has been the star of her country&#8217;s conservative movement. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am Giorgia, I am a woman, I am a mother, I am Italian, I am Christian,&#8221; Giorgia Meloni told supporters in central Rome at a viral rally moment in 2019. &#8220;No one will take that away from me.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>This is a breaking story and will be updated.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giorgia Meloni, head of the conservative populist Brothers of Italy party, is set to become the country&#8217;s first right-wing prime minister since the second World War, and the country&#8217;s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1657400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1657398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1657398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1657400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1657398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1657398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1657398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}