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Italy's far right set to win election - exit polls
Giorgia Meloni is on course to be Italy's first female PM, with a right-wing coalition, exit polls say.
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Far-right leader Giorgia Meloni has won Italy's election, according to exit polls, and is on course to become the country's first female prime minister.
If they are confirmed, Ms Meloni will aim to form Italy's most right-wing government since World War Two.
That will alarm much of Europe as Italy is the EU's third-biggest economy.
She is predicted to win between 22-26% of the vote, says a Rai exit poll, ahead of her closest rival Enrico Letta from the centre left.
Giorgia Meloni set to be Italy's most far-right prime minister since Mussolini -- exit poll
Italy will be led by the most far-right government since the fascist era of Benito Mussolini, early exit polls suggest.
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Meloni, a 45-year-old mother from Rome who has campaigned under the slogan "God, country and family," leads a party whose agenda is rooted in Euroskepticism, anti-immigration policies, and one that has also proposed curtailing LGBTQ and abortion rights.
And while Meloni is slated to make history as Italy's first female prime minister, her politics do not mean that she is necessarily interested in advancing women's rights.
Emiliana De Blasio, adviser for diversity and inclusion at LUISS University in Rome told CNN Meloni is "not raising up at all questions on women's rights and empowerment in general."
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