The whole world will follow Italy's
September 25 election results, which the far right is currently
projected to won, European High Representative for Foreign
Affairs Josep Borrell said Monday.
"All the world will follow with great attention the result of
the elections in Italy," Borrell said when asked about possible
fears about national-conservative Brothers of Italy (FdI) leader
Giorgia Meloni becoming premier.
"My role means that I can't have leanings towards any political
side but it is no mystery that (outgoing) Premier Mario Draghi
is a person with the highest European credentials and has been
very clear in his support for Ukraine.
"I don't know what the next Italian government's attitude will
be because I don't know what the next government will be".
Meloni's FdI is spearheading an alliance with the nationalist
League party of Matteo Salvini, which has had a relationship
with Russian President Vladimir Putin's United Russia party
since 2017, and the centre-right Forza Italia (FI) party of
three-time ex-premier and media mogul Silvio Berlusconi, a
long-time personal friend of Putin.
All three leaders, even Meloni as only opposition leader to
Draghi, have strongly condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine
and Meloni recently reaffirmed the FdI's pro-NATO and
pro-Western stance.
FdI and the League have voiced Euroskeptic views in the past and
their friends include Hungary's national-conservative Prime
Minister Viktor Orban and the rightwing French leader Marine Le
Pen.
Meloni also chairs the European Conservative and Reformist
caucus which includes the Polish hard right party Law and
Justice and the Spanish post-Francoist party Vox.
Meloni's party has neo-Fascist roots and she would be Italy's
first post-Fascist and first woman premier.
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