By Left To Burn

Giorgia Meloni was always the winner. If the press is anything to go by, her triumph was confirmed the day Mario Draghi resigned. To make things worse, she didn’t win the popular vote. The Battleground’s Editor-in-Chief, Joel Schalit, spoke with staff journalist Basilio Korman about why Meloni triumphed and what it says about the state of Italian democracy.

Photograph courtesy of Joel Schalit. All rights reserved.

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