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CAGLIARI, ITALY - 2 SEPTEMBER 2022: Giorgia Meloni (45), leader of the Fratelli d'Italia (Brothers of Italy) party and the leading candidate to become Italy’s next prime minister later this month, poses for a portrait in Cagliari, Italy, on September 2nd 2022.

Giorgia Meloni, whose campaign slogan is “Ready,” could also become the first head of a hard right party descended from post-Fascism to lead the country, and a major Western European nation, since the end of the Second World War.

The likely prospect of Ms. Meloni and her coalition partners Silvio Berlusconi, the former prime minister, and Matteo Salvini, the former darling of the hard right, running the country has terrified a European establishment wary of their mishandling billions of euros in recovery funds, imposing protectionism, eroding norms and detonating a nationalist bomb from within the heart of the Europe Union.

Ms. Meloni's wave seemed to have crested out of nowhere, growing from four percent in 2018 to 25 percent in the polls of the 2022 elections.

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CAGLIARI, ITALY - 2 SEPTEMBER 2022: Giorgia Meloni (45), leader of the Fratelli d'Italia (Brothers of Italy) party and the leading candidate to become Italy’s next prime minister later this month, poses for a portrait in Cagliari, Italy, on September 2nd 2022.<br /> <br /> Giorgia Meloni, whose campaign slogan is “Ready,” could also become the first head of a hard right party descended from post-Fascism to lead the country, and a major Western European nation, since the end of the Second World War.<br /> <br /> The likely prospect of Ms. Meloni and her coalition partners Silvio Berlusconi, the former prime minister, and Matteo Salvini, the former darling of the hard right, running the country has terrified a European establishment wary of their mishandling billions of euros in recovery funds, imposing protectionism, eroding norms and detonating a nationalist bomb from within the heart of the Europe Union.<br /> <br /> Ms. Meloni's wave seemed to have crested out of nowhere, growing from four percent in 2018 to 25 percent in the polls of the 2022 elections.