Brothers of Italy
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Brothers of Italy (Italian: Fratelli d'Italia,[lower-alpha 2] FdI) is a national-conservative[2][3] and right-wing populist[4][5][6][7] political party in Italy, the country's largest after the 2022 Italian general election.[8][9] The party is led by Giorgia Meloni,[10][11] the incumbent Prime Minister of Italy.[12][13] According to observers, Meloni's has been the "most right-wing" republican government, thus since World War II.[14][15][16]
Brothers of Italy Fratelli d'Italia | |
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Abbreviation | FdI |
President | Giorgia Meloni |
Coordinator | Giovanni Donzelli [it] |
Founders |
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Founded | 21 December 2012; 11 years ago (2012-12-21) |
Split from | The People of Freedom |
Headquarters | Via della Scrofa 39, Rome |
Newspaper | La Voce del Patriota |
Student wing | Student Action University Action |
Youth wing | National Youth |
Membership (2021) | 130,000[1] |
Ideology | |
Political position | Right-wing to far-right |
National affiliation | Centre-right coalition |
European affiliation | European Conservatives and Reformists Party |
European Parliament group | |
Colours | Blue |
Chamber of Deputies | 118 / 400 |
Senate[lower-alpha 1] | 66 / 200 |
European Parliament | 10 / 76 |
Regional Councils | 128 / 896 |
Conference of Regions | 2 / 21 |
Website | |
fratelli-italia | |
In December 2012, FdI emerged from a right-wing split within The People of Freedom (PdL) party.[17] The bulk of FdI's membership (including Meloni, who has led the party since 2014), and its symbol, the tricolour flame,[18] hail from the post-fascist National Alliance (AN), which was established in 1995 and merged into PdL in 2009.[19] AN was the successor to the Italian Social Movement (MSI), a neo-fascist party active from 1946 to 1995.[20][21][22][23][24] However, FdI is home also to several former Christian Democrats[25][26] and half of its ministers are not former MSI members.[27][28]
According to Meloni and leading members, FdI is a mainstream conservative party.[29][30] Academics and observers have variously described it as conservative,[31][32] national-conservative, right-wing populist, social-conservative,[33] nationalist,[34][35] neo-fascist,[36][32] post-fascist,[37][38] nativist[39][40] and anti-immigrant.[4][6] The party espouses a Eurosceptic position,[31][41] while being in favour of Atlanticism.[31][42] While its MEPs were originally affiliated with the European People's Party Group, the party has since been a member of the European Conservatives and Reformists Party, which has been led by Meloni since 2020.[43][44] FdI proposes a "confederal Europe" of nations as opposed to a "federal Europe".[45][46][47]