This Sunday, April 28, a conference of the Fratelli d’Italia party is being held, the formation of the current President of the Council, Giorgia Meloni. A highly anticipated meeting since it is on this occasion that this far-right party, at the top of the polls, must announce its list for the next European elections. It should be Giorgia Meloni who will lead her party list herself.
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Giorgia Meloni is well aware of this, she is the one who best embodies her party. If she wants Fratelli d’Italia to remain the most popular party, it is up to her to lead the campaign for the next European elections. Leading in the latest polls with more than 27% of voting intentions, that is to say more than seven points ahead of the Democratic Party, a center-left formation, the head of government wants to drive the point home and obtain a majority of deputies for the next European legislature.
At the national level, “eShe wants to consolidate her popularity, which remains great, even if some polls show that the government has lost a few points, and so have she. But it must establish this popularity both in its majority and in particular in relation to the League of Matteo Salvini », analyzes Marc Lazar, historian and sociologist specializing in Italian politics.
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Becoming a major player in the EU
By being in a position of strength in the European Parliament within the ECR group, that of European conservatives and reformists, Giorgia Meloni will be able to influence decisions within the hemicycle and above all this will allow her party to obtain positions key members of some of Parliament’s most important committees. “ If she obtains a good result, Giorgia Meloni, who will obviously not sit in the European Parliament, will have even more basis to be able to influence the orientations of the policy of theEuropean Union. She wants to assert herself as one of the great national-populist leaders even », underlines Marc Lazar.
Considered by the conservatives of the European People’s Party (EPP), the majority group in Parliament, as being a more acceptable party than groups like the German AFD or the French National Rally, Giorgia Meloni’s party has demonstrated since coming to power in Italy that he was not Europhobic or Eurosceptic. On the contrary, the party has shown that it wants to find solutions for its country with the help of the European Union. And it is with this in mind that the head of the Italian government wishes to lead the European election campaign.
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