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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 534

Matteo Salvini

Italian prime minister-designate Giorgia Meloni addresses the media after a meeting with Italian President Sergio Mattarella at the Quirinale Palace in Rome on October 21, 2022. (ANGELO CARCONI/ANSA/AFP)
October 21, 2022, 11:57 pm
Meloni named Italian PM, to lead first far-right government since WWII
Brothers of Italy, a party with fascist roots, to form coalition of 24 ministers with allies League and Forza Italia, despite disagreements over Ukraine war, relations with Russia
By Gildas Le Roux and Clement Melki
Brothers of Italy's leader Giorgia Meloni is flanked by The League leader Matteo Salvini, right, Forza Italia president Silvio Berlusconi, Senator Licia Ronzulli and Antonio Tajani as she talks to the press at the Quirinale Presidential Palace after a meeting with Italian President Sergio Mattarella as part of a round of consultations with party leaders to try and form a new government, in Rome, Oct. 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
October 21, 2022, 1:40 pm
Meloni requests mandate to form Italy’s first far-right-led government since WWII
Brothers of Italy leader, whose party has neo-fascist roots, meets with Italian president; she makes announcement flanked by her two main, right-wing allies Salvini and Berlusconi
By Frances D'Emilio
From left to right: Leader of Italian far-right Lega (League) party Matteo Salvini, Forza Italia leader Silvio Berlusconi, leader of Italian far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (Brothers of Italy) Giorgia Meloni, and Italian centre-right lawmaker Maurizio Lupi stand on stage during a joint rally of Italy's coalition of far-right and right-wing parties at Piazza del Popolo in Rome, September 22, 2022. (Alberto Pizzoli/AFP)
September 27, 2022, 4:42 pm
Italy’s far-right leader begins complex task of cobbling together coalition
Giorgia Meloni races against time to divide roles among allies while several challenges loom, among them a deadline to submit a draft budget plan to the EU by October 15
By Ella Ide
The League's Matteo Salvini, left, chats with Brothers of Italy's Giorgia Meloni on the stage of the joint closing rally of Italian right-wing parties, in Rome September 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
September 24, 2022, 10:13 am
EU braces for trouble but no blowup with Italy as far-right expected to take power
With Brothers of Italy and the League slated to be the big winners in Sunday’s election, many fear the latter’s Kremlin-friendly leader may take soft-line on Putin over Ukraine war
By Christian SPILLMANN and Alex Pigman
French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, left, gestures while speaking to Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, during their meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, on Friday, March 24, 2017. (Mikhail Klimentyev/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
March 5, 2022, 6:07 pm
Europe’s far-right in a pickle over Ukraine war, Putin links
Nationalist leaders denounce Russian invasion while echoing the Kremlin’s claim that NATO expansion to blame; in surprise, some parties say open to welcoming Ukrainian refugees
By Isabelle Le Page
Supporters hold Italian flags during a center-right coalition rally of the Lega, Brothers of Italy and Forza Italia parties for the regional elections, on September 18, 2020, in Florence, Tuscany. (Carlo Bressan/AFP)
September 22, 2020, 2:22 pm
Italy’s left defeats far-right bid to take stronghold Tuscany
Uneasy government coalition boosted by election results that pundit says will ‘allow it to survive and stay the course’
By AFP and ToI Staff
Silvia Romano, escorted by Carabinieri officers, arrives at her home wearing the green hijab typical of Somali Muslim women and a surgical mask to guard against COVID-19, in Milan, Italy, May 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, File )
May 15, 2020, 2:23 pm
Italian lawmaker sorry for calling hostage who converted to Islam a ‘terrorist’
Alessandro Pagano of the anti-migrant League party says he had intended to criticize government, not Silvia Romano, who was held captive in Somalia
By Nicole Winfield
Leader of Italy's far-right League (Lega) party Matteo Salvini during a campaign rally on January 18, 2020, in Maranello, a week ahead of Emilia-Romagna's regional vote. (Andreas SOLARO/AFP)
January 19, 2020, 1:05 pm
Italian far-right leader Salvini says he’d move embassy to Jerusalem if elected
In interview with Israeli daily, head of popular right-wing euroskeptic party lashes the left for what he says is anti-Israel and anti-Semitic bias
By ToI Staff
Matteo Salvini, leader of the League party, speaks at the party's rally in Pontida, northern Italy, September 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
November 8, 2019, 4:18 pm
Italian far-right leader denies downplaying threats to Holocaust survivor
Matteo Salvini asks why death threats to Liliana Segre get more attention than those against him, calls being anti-Semitic ‘the stuff of the mentally ill’
By AFP
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte (R), flanked by Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini (L), delivers a speech at the Italian Senate in Rome on August 20, 2019, as the country faces a political crisis. (Andreas Solaro/AFP)
August 20, 2019, 7:11 pm
Italian PM resigns after far-right leader pulls support
Giuseppe Conte says Matteo Salvini’s bid to initiate new elections stems from ‘personal and party interests,’ frets over his call for ‘full powers’
By Duncan Crawford
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (R) greets Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini prior to talks at the State Department in Washington, DC, on June 17, 2019. (Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM / AFP)
June 18, 2019, 6:03 am
In Washington, Italy’s Salvini touts common cause with Trump and Israel
Far-right head of Italy’s anti-immigration League party also cites shared values with populist leaders in Brazil, Poland and Hungary
By Francesco FONTEMAGGI
Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage reacts as results are announced at the counting center for the European Elections for the South East England region, in Southampton, England on May 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
May 27, 2019, 10:30 am
Europe at crossroads as far right makes big gains in vote
Many turn their backs on centrist parties in favor of factions led by populists Salvini, Le Pen and Farage, as well as environmentalist parties
By LORNE COOK and Mike Corder
A woman has her face painted as the EU flag outside the European Parliament in Brussels, May 26, 2019, as voters from 21 nations voted on the final day of European Parliament elections. (AP /Francisco Seco)
May 26, 2019, 10:59 pm
As EU vote nears end, exit polls show rise for far-right and Greens
Highest voter turnout in 20 years registered during four-day elections in 28 countries for 751-seat European Parliament
By AP
Ballots are being prepared ahead of Sunday's European Elections, in Rozzano, near Milan, Italy, May 25, 2019 (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)
May 26, 2019, 8:22 am
Europe’s voters elect new parliament as right-wing nationalism mounts
Euroskeptic populists, who want to slash immigration and return power to national governments, expected to make gains, but mainstream parties tipped to hold onto power
By Mike Corder
Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, center, delivers a speech at a rally of European nationalists ahead of European elections on May 18, 2019, in Milan. (Miguel Medina/AFP)
May 23, 2019, 5:52 pm
Fascist symbols and rhetoric on rise in Italian EU vote
Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, whose League party leads in EU parliament elections, accused of tolerating — and even encouraging — neo-fascist politics
By Colleen Barry
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