Giorgia Meloni and Gray Neo-Fascism: A Conservative Party of the Right in Power

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  • Joseph Galbo University of New Brunswick

Abstract

This paper examines Giorgia Meloni’s political rise to power within the context of the neofascist Movimento Sociale Italiano (MSI), the post fascist Alleanza Nazionale (AN) and Fratelli d’Italia (FdI), as well as current populist politics. Fratelli d’Italia, I argue, embodies many of the ideas and political attitudes of what has been called a “gray neofascism”: a form of populist, formally democratic authoritarianism that promotes a sanitized memory of fascism. I focus on this issue by examining Giorgia Meloni’s autobiography and tracing her “roots” within the Roman neofascist and post fascist political world of Colle Oppio and her ascendance to political power. The paper concludes with an assessment of Meloni’s leadership in power, her recent visit to North America, and her ambition to consolidate the political power of a new European Right.

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2024-08-01

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Galbo, J. (2024). Giorgia Meloni and Gray Neo-Fascism: A Conservative Party of the Right in Power. Alternate Routes: A Journal of Critical Social Research, 34(1). Retrieved from https://alternateroutes.ca/index.php/ar/article/view/22562

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Vol. 34 No. 1 (2024): Navigating Precarity: Democracy in the Age of Populism

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