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Observers expect Giorgia Meloni and Matteo Salvini to float policies inimical to migrants, LGBT rights and abortionsMatteo Salvini, the leader of Italy’s far-right League, has promised that his alliance with Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy will deliver a long-lasting government, as Italians begin to digest the outcome of an election that delivered the country’s most rightwing government since the end of the second world war.Final results gave the coalition control of both houses of parliament with 44% of the vote and confirmed a swing in the balance of power in the Italian far right towards Meloni as her party made spectacular gains in the League’s northern strongholds of Veneto and Friuli Venezia Giulia. Continue reading...