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Giorgia Meloni – the political provocateur set to become Italy's first far-right leader since Mussolini

  • Written by Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager, Associate Professor of Critical Cultural & International Studies, Colorado State University
Giorgia Meloni – the political provocateur set to become Italy's first far-right leader since MussoliniA 'V' for victory for Giorgia Meloni?Nicolò Campo/LightRocket via Getty Images

In the autumn of 1922, Benito Mussolini, the ambitious and charismatic founder of the Fascist Party, became Italy’s youngest prime minister – seizing power in a march on Rome that ushered in a dark period of totalitarian rule.

A century on, Italy looks...

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