Giorgia Meloni leads the right-wing party Fratelli d’Italia and is increasingly a threat to Lega leader Salvini. While his candidate loses in Tuscany, her party continues to grow. Yesterday was not a good day for the head of the right-wing populist party Lega. Matteo Salvini probably knew himself that his center-right alliance would not succeed in conquering all seven regions in the elections on Sunday and Monday. But the Lega candidate’s victory in Tuscany would probably have been enough for him. But nothing came of it. The center-left candidate Eugenio Giani won with just under 49 percent. Salvini tried to downplay the defeat, the center-right alliance is at least the majority in Italy, he emphasized in a press conference: “We rule in 15 of the 20 Italian regions.” In addition, the top Lega candidate Luca Zaia was re-elected with 76.8 percent in Veneto. And the elections in Liguria did not come as an unpleasant surprise: Giovanni Toti, supported by the legal alliance of Lega, Fratelli d’Italia and Forza Italia, was confirmed in office with 56.13 percent of the votes.

On Sunday when voting at a polling station in Rome.

And yet the political luck seems to leave the Lega boss. According to surveys, the Lega is still the strongest party in Italy with 25 percent. However, it has lost more than 9 percentage points since the European Parliament elections in May 2020. Salvini can largely attribute this development to himself: his abrupt termination of the government coalition with the five-stars in August last year earned him the image of an unpredictable politician. In the legal alliance, the balance is currently shifting in favor of the nationalist Fratelli d’Italia (FdI). This is mainly due to the 43-year-old Giorgia Meloni, the chairman of the “Brothers of Italy”. She is Salvini’s most dangerous competitor. From election to election, your party grows at the expense of the Lega: In the European elections, it got 6.5 percent of the vote, now it is 14.2 percent in the polls. An increase that was also confirmed in the regional elections: In Apulia, the party is even ahead of the Lega with 13.3 percent of the vote. And not only that, Franceso Acquaroli, the top FdI candidate in the Marche region, won with 49.13 percent of the vote and sent home the “Reds” who have ruled for 25 years. No wonder Meloni Salvini is a thorn in the side.

For six years the petite, just 1.63 meters tall woman with a firm grip has led the party, in which many former members of the neo-fascist Movimento Sociale Italiano have found a home. Before that, Meloni was minister of youth and sport in the government of Silvio Berlusconi, the eternal head of Forza Italia, from 2008 to 2011. Fatherland, family, Christian West, these are their themes. What sounds outdated becomes a hit with her. In the truest sense of the word: A band made the remix “Io sono Giorgia” of one of their speeches and put it online. The enthusiasm was great. She is conservative but not stuffy, has a young daughter and a significant other to whom she is not married. Unlike Salvini, who likes Russia, Meloni maintains close contacts with the right-wing conservatives in the USA. Donald Trump’s former adviser Steve Bannon once said she was the “rational face of right-wing populism”. Of course, she too can shout herself hoarse when she railed against the EU and the euro. But she adjusts the right moment and, unlike Salvini, does not allow herself to be driven by instinct. This is how she did it at the beginning of the pandemic. It was only when the curfew was relaxed that she spoke up and protested against the aid packages decided by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte.

She probably learned the feeling for the right timing early on. She grew up in the Roman working-class district of Garbatella. “Me, a woman and also in the wrong camp, that was no honey licking,” she once said in an interview. She has never clearly distanced herself from fascism. You have a “relaxed relationship” with whatever that means. Although she is also against migrants, since Salvini is already working this terrain, she prefers to deal with topics such as infrastructures, small businesses, craftsmen, Italian of course. She wants to be perceived as a conscientious and serious politician. With rosaries and images of saints, as Salvini does, she would not stand on a stage. It is not yet clear how far Meloni will take her political career. At least it is interesting that Salvini is no longer in such a hurry with his new election plans.

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