Brothers of Italy

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Brothers of Italy
Fratelli d'Italia
AbbreviationFdI
PresidentGiorgia Meloni
Organisational SecretaryGiovanni Donzelli
Founders
Founded21 December 2012; 11 years ago (2012-12-21)
Split fromThe People of Freedom
Preceded byNational Alliance[A]
HeadquartersVia della Scrofa 39, Rome
NewspaperLa Voce del Patriota
Student wingStudent Action
University Action
Youth wingNational Youth
Membership (2021)130,000[1]
IdeologyNational conservatism
Right-wing populism
Post-fascism[B]
Political positionRight-wing to far-right
National affiliationCentre-right coalition
European affiliationEuropean Conservatives and Reformists Party
European Parliament groupEuropean Conservatives and Reformists Group
(since 2019)
EPP Group (until 2014)
International affiliationInternational Democracy Union
Colours  Blue
Chamber of Deputies
117 / 400
Senate[C]
66 / 200
European Parliament
24 / 76
Regional Councils
149 / 896
Conference of Regions
3 / 21
Website
fratelli-italia.it
^ A: Not direct predecessor. FdI was established by former AN members, who had been part of the PdL in 2008–2012, and is the current bearer of AN's symbol under the authorization of the National Alliance Foundation.

^ B: Some sources consider FdI neo-fascist,[2][page needed][3][4][5][6] and some other sources consider it to be post-fascist.

^ C: Three senators sit within the Civics of Italy–Us Moderates group.

Brothers of Italy (Italian: Fratelli d'Italia,[a] FdI) is a national-conservative[7][8] and right-wing populist[9][10][11][12] political party in Italy, that is currently the country's ruling party. After becoming the largest party in the 2022 Italian general election, it consolidated as one of the two major political parties in Italy during the 2020s along with the Democratic Party.[13][14] The party is led by Giorgia Meloni,[15][16] the incumbent Prime Minister of Italy.[17][18] Meloni's tenure has been described as the "most right-wing" republican government in Italy since World War II,[19][20][21] whilst her time in government is frequently described as a shift towards the far-right in Italian politics.[22][23][24][25]

In December 2012, FdI emerged from a right-wing split within The People of Freedom (PdL) party.[26] The bulk of FdI's membership (including Meloni, who has led the party since 2014), and its symbol, the tricolour flame,[27] hail from the post-fascist National Alliance (AN), which was established in 1995 and merged into PdL in 2009.[28] AN was the successor to the Italian Social Movement (MSI), a neo-fascist party active from 1946 to 1995.[29][30][31][32][33] However, FdI is home also to several former Christian Democrats[34][35] and half of its ministers are not former MSI members.[36][37]

According to Meloni and leading members, FdI is a mainstream conservative party.[38][39] Academics and observers have variously described it as conservative,[40][41] national-conservative, right-wing populist, social-conservative,[42] nationalist,[43][44] neo-fascist,[45][41] post-fascist,[46][47] nativist[48][49] and anti-immigrant.[9][11] The party espouses a Eurosceptic position,[40][50] while being in favour of Atlanticism.[40][51] While its MEPs were originally affiliated with the European People's Party Group, they left in 2014 and joined the European Conservatives and Reformists in 2019, which has been led by Meloni since 2020.[52][53] FdI proposes a "confederal Europe" of nations as opposed to a "federal Europe".[54][55][56]

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  36. ^ FdI is represented in the Meloni government by Prime Minister Meloni and nine ministers, five of whom were never MSI members: Carlo Nordio (a former prosecutor and a former Liberal), Guido Crosetto (a former Christian Democrat), Daniela Santanchè (who entered politics with AN), Raffaele Fitto (a former Christian Democrat) and Eugenia Roccella (a former Radical, more recently affiliated with Catholic movements).
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