Aforthcoming potentially controversial book by one of Italy's leading right-wing journalists sets out to explain Giorgia Meloni's appeal to Italians as the country's first women premier, saying she is a success story like late three-time ex premier Silvio Berlusconi who has dragged herself up from humble beginnings and speaks with down-home charm to the hearts of her electorate unlike the radical-chic leftists who loath her.
Italo Bocchino has written the long essay for publishers Solferino, expected to generate controversy, dedicated to "Giorgia, the Daughter of the People." In it, he explains "Why Italians like Meloni" (€18, 256 pages).
The book will be released on February 24.
"The elections have certified it, the polls confirm it: Italians like Giorgia Meloni.
Because she is popular in the truest sense of the word and loves the people to whom she belongs.
