Italy could be on the verge of electing its first woman premier.
That prospect delights some Italian women, but others are dismayed by her conservative beliefs and policies. If opinion polls prove on the mark, Giorgia Meloni and the far-right Brothers of Italy party she co-founded less than a decade ago will triumph in Sept. 25 elections for Parliament. Should opinion polls prove on the mark, Giorgia Meloni and the far-right Brothers of Italy party she co-founded less than a decade ago will triumph in the Sept. 25 election.
Licia Donati, as a young Communist activist in the 1960s, fought for the legalization of divorce, which came in 1970. She also mobilized so Italian courts would recognize that wives have the same right to justice as husbands in a country where, until 1981, laws sanctioned leniency for men who murdered women to preserve “family honor.”
Meloni, 45, is the only main party leader who didn’t join Premier Mario Draghi’s pandemic national unity government in 2021. After populist forces, including two of Meloni’s campaign allies, yanked support for Draghi in July, the former European Central Bank chief’s coalition collapsed, prompting an early election.
Meloni has derided most of the migrants — overwhelmingly men — who sail toward Italy's shores on smugglers' boats as freeloaders who don't deserve refugee status. “I am a woman, so saying that you're not a woman if you say the things I say, frankly, makes me laugh."As a young woman, Sen. Emma Bonino, leader of the tiny +Europe party, which is allied in the campaign with Meloni's rival, Democratic Party chief Enrico Letta, pushed to make divorce and abortion legal.
"It would be better to see a woman in politics hold a role of that kind , but perhaps not her. Maybe someone with ideas a little more open, more current,'' said Riboli, from Aosta, northern Italy.Lavinia Mercante, 25, from Rome, said she backs her “as a politician, not as a woman.” Mercante wants to see the political right come to power.
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