Although the result is not 100% final, it is more or less clear that Italy has for the first time a woman prime minister!
Giorgia Meloni, from the radical party, "Fratelli d'Italia" looks set to be the country's first woman prime minister, leading what is considered to be the most far-right government from the time of Benito Musolini.
Before her sympathizers celebrating among the cheers, Melon pledged to unite people, and work the same for all Italians.
"From what we saw from the preliminary results, the Italians have sent a clear message in favour of the centre-right government led by Fratelli d'Italia. If we are trusted with the leadership of this country, we will do it for all Italians. We will do this with the goal of bringing people together, strengthening what unites us instead of what is in our minds." - she declared.
On Sunday, more than 50 million Italians voted in the new parliament, but according to statistics, voter turnout was even smaller than in recent elections.
Since the pre-election polls the Right Alliance was leading, while exit polls confirm that Fratelli d'Italia could have received more votes than Matteo Salvini's "Lega" and Silvio Berlusconi's "Forza Italia" together. Meloni's party counts 26% of the vote, Lega 9% and Forza Italia 8%; Their coalition thus arrives 44% of the vote.
With such figures, Meloni is not afraid to claim that italy's next government will already be led by FDI. However, the creation of a stable ruling coalition could take weeks. Sunday's early national elections were the result of internal party squabbles that led to the collapse of Mario Draghi's government in July.
Opponents of the new prime minister on the other hand call for the party to give up support.
"I was born with Musolin, I wouldn't want to die with Melon. God help us"- this is written in the placard that an Elderly Italian held to urge his citizens not to support the far-right coalition, which nevertheless won in yesterday's elections.
The photo of the elderly has taken the internet tour, especially since the victory of Melon and her party, the first fascist party to be elected to an Italian government since World War II.
Source: CNN
