Monday briefing: Italy's political dysfunction opens the door to a far-right prime minister

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : Meloni is an admirer of the Hungarian nationalist prime minister Viktor Orbán; an opponent of gay rights; and wants a naval blockade to stop undocumented immigrants coming to Italy from Libya.
49% : "I feel that one of the lessons of Brexit was the need to try to get past those designations to understand how voters are thinking.
47% : Italian politics is sui generis - and any parallels with Trump, Brexit, or Marine Le Pen are bound to have their limits.
34% : That familiar outsider story - together with a diagnosis of Italy's vast economic problems that places much of the blame at the feet of immigrants, and a traditionalist appeal on issues like abortion and adoption for gay couples - has allowed Brothers of Italy to seize the initiative despite that 4% vote share in 2018.

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