Giorgia Meloni puts Italy’s right on course for election triumph

A jubilant Giorgia Meloni, leader of the far-right Brothers of Italy party and on course to become Italy’s first woman prime minister, said voters had given the right-wing a clear mandate to govern and that she would lead a government for all Italians.

Meloni was speaking at her party’s election night campaign centre in Rome after a projection suggested the Brothers of Italy had emerged as the biggest party in Sunday’s elections, with 26 percent of the vote.

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 A center-right coalition consisting of the Brothers of Italy, League and Forza Italia parties gained 44.53% of the vote in the Senate election in Italy with more than 90% of the ballots counted, according to data on the Interior Ministry’s website.

As for the lower house elections, the center-right garnered 44.34%.

Leader of the Brothers of Italy party Giorgia Meloni is highly likely to be nominated to be prime minister.