Italy: Anti-Immigration Right Surges Before Upcoming Elections
You did it once, you can do it again, Italy!
The Italian elections are coming up this Sunday, and are gearing up to represent a major win against the EU and mass immigration.
Italy is one of the countries that has been devastated by the migrant crisis, for which their membership in the EU is mostly to blame. Add on top of that a recent string of horrible cannibalistic crimes by disgusting foreigners, and you get an Italian population that’s pretty fed up with all this globalism crap.
We might just have a happening on our hands here, guys.
Italians are set to elect a new government on Sunday with anti-mass migration and Eurosceptic parties dominating the polls in an election that could shake the European Union to its foundations.The Italian national election has the potential to send a wave through Europe not seen since the Brexit vote in 2016. The migration crisis, which has flooded Italy with hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants, along with EU rules preventing bank bailouts and soaring migrant crime and unemployment, has fueled the growth of populism and the collapse of the political establishment.
There are three main contenders in Sunday’s election. Two of them belong, at least in part, to anti-establishment populist movements while the other, the currently-ruling centre-left alliance is struggling in polls.
So by far the largest “party” in the polls is the Five star movement, which is a Euro-skeptic populist group that’s against political parties (in other words, their members can usually vote their conscience rather than following a party line). While their policies aren’t anything too extreme, it appears like the leader might be a crypto-fascist (he ended one of his speeches with a famous fascist idiom – “Boia Chi Molla”).
Their normal policy is to never ally with other parties, so it’s unclear if they can even form a government. However, it’s speculated that they might change this policy in order to gain power.
Two major right-wing parties have around 15% of the projected vote each. These are Berlusconi’s “Forza Italia” and Salvini’s “Lega”, two populist, anti-immigration parties. Berlusconi owns a newspaper which distributed free copies of “Mein Kampf” just two years ago. “Lega” is a separationist party for the Germanic peoples of northern Italy – they’re obviously anti-Immigration.
So combine all of these, along with other conservative and outright Fascist parties, and you get a large majority of the vote right there – certainly enough to pull a Italexit move.
Things might get very interesting for Italians in the coming months.
