Legislative in Italy: how Giorgia Meloni became the new face of the transalpine far right

At the campaign closing meeting of his coalition, Thursday, September 22 in Rome, Giorgia Meloni, in a white cape, had played on two opposing registers. “I love you,” she waved to the crowd gathered in Piazza del Popolo, shaking her blond hair. Then, rediscovering her ardor and her strong voice, which make her “sometimes swell the veins of the neck” to be frightening, as she once confided while pretending to want to moderate her image, she launched into a diatribe. “Who’s afraid of me? Am I scaring you? And to list, like a government program, those who must fear it: “Thieves, dealers, mafiosos, slavers” who smuggle migrants, etc. Applause from the audience and endless requests for selfies.