Perspectives on the Italian Election: The Victory of the Right and the Spectre of Fascism

The success of Giorgia Meloni’s far-right Fratelli d’Italia (FdI) in the recent Italian elections represents an unprecedented and pivotal juncture in the country’s modern history. Meloni is likely to become Italy’s first female Prime Minister, and the FdI’s victory marks the first time since the Second World War that a party with fascist roots will be the lead partner in the governing coalition. The results have set alarm bells ringing across the international community, with many commentators and media outlets openly speculating that “fascism has returned to Italy.”

Andrea Mammone is a historian of modern and contemporary Europe at the University of Rome La Sapienza. He is the author of Transnational Neofascism in France and Italy (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and the editor of the Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Italy: History, Politics and Society (Routledge, 2014) and Italy Today: The Sick Man of Europe (Routledge, 2010). He regularly comments on nationalism and the far right for media outlets including Al Jazeera, CNN, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Guardian, Foreign Affairs and the New Statesman.

Joshua Arthurs is an Associate Professor of Historical and Cultural Studies at the University of Toronto-Scarborough and a faculty affiliate of the Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (CERES). He is also a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome. He is the author of Excavating Modernity: The Roman Past in Fascist Italy (Cornell University Press2012) and co-editor of Outside the State? The Politics of Everyday Life in Fascist Italy (Palgrave MacMillan, 2017). His current book project, Forty-Five Days: Emotion, Experience and Memory after Mussolini, under contract with Oxford University Press, examines popular responses to the collapse of the Fascist regime in 1943.

Gianluca Passarelli is an Associate Professor at the Department of Political Sciences at La Sapienza, a researcher of the Istituto Carlo Cattaneo and a member of the Italian National Election Studies Association. He is the author of: The Preferential Voting Systems (Palgrave 2020); Eleggere il Presidente. Gli Stati Uniti da Roosevelt a oggi (2020, Marsilio, con F. Clementi); La Lega di Salvini. Estrema destra di governo (2018, Il Mulino, con D. Tuorto); and The Presidentialization of Political Parties (2015). He also appears on news outlets including Rai News and France 24.

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