Unfortunately, the only criticism I’ve heard (outside of communist circles obviously) of Melloni is that she’s going to be prime minister because she’s a woman. In other words, people are more concerned about the ‘wokeness’ of the fascists than them being… you know… fascists. She’s also all the other things you’d expect, homophobic, transphobic, racist, etc. etc.

To clarify, Melloni’s party, FdI broke from Berlusconi as he wasn’t right wing enough for them, but while they poll the highest, they can’t form a government alone and will still require the ‘centre-right’ coalition to form a majority. This grouping includes the Lega Nord (who’ve rebranded from their racist, islamophobic, seccessionism to racist, islamophobic nationalism) and Forza Italia (Berlusconi’s party, yes he’s gonna get cucked by the party that ditched him) amongst a few other more obscure ones.

On the other side is the so called ‘centre-left’ coalition, this is mostly centred around the Democratic Party, who, to give you some insight into how ‘left’ they are, they named themselves after the US democrats, specifically to crib on the popularity of Obama. They are polling just shy of FdI, and also have a handful of small parties that group with them, but they can’t pull the kind of support that the ‘centre-right’ can.

Then there’s the ‘third pole’ - everyone else basically, this includes incoherent populists like M5S, single-issue parties and ones too small to really pay attention to, and what passes for communists in Italy.

Oh extra fun is that the right are likely to be only a few seats shy of being able to rewrite the constitution.