Italian political party
"FdI" redirects here. For other uses, see
FDI .
Brothers of Italy (Italian :Fratelli d'Italia ,[ a] FdI ) is anational-conservative [ 7] [ 8] andright-wing populist [ 9] [ 10] [ 11] [ 12] political party in Italy , that is currently the country's ruling party. After becoming the largest party in the2022 Italian general election , it consolidated as one of the two major political parties in Italy during the 2020s along with theDemocratic Party .[ 13] [ 14] The party is led byGiorgia Meloni ,[ 15] [ 16] the incumbentPrime Minister of Italy .[ 17] [ 18] Meloni's tenure has been described as the "most right-wing" government in Italy sinceWorld War II ,[ 19] [ 20] [ 21] whilst her time in government is frequently described as a shift towards the far-right in Italian politics.[ b]
In December 2012, FdI emerged from a right-wing split withinThe 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 theNational Alliance (AN), which was established in 1995 and merged into PdL in 2009.[ 28] AN was the successor to theItalian Social Movement (MSI), aneo-fascist party active from 1946 to 1995.[ 29] [ 30] [ 31] [ 32] [ 33] However, FdI is home also to several formerChristian Democrats [ 34] [ 35] and half of its ministers are not former MSI members.[ 36] [ 37]
According to Meloni and leading members, FdI is a mainstreamconservative party.[ 38] [ 39] Academics and observers have variously described it as conservative,[ 40] [ 41] national-conservative,social-conservative ,[ 42] right-wing populist,nationalist ,[ 43] [ 44] neo-fascist,[ 45] [ 41] post-fascist ,[ 5] [ 6] andnativist .[ 46] [ 9] [ 11] The party espouses aEurosceptic position,[ 40] [ 47] while being in favour ofAtlanticism .[ 40] [ 48] While its MEPs were originally affiliated with theEuropean People's Party Group , they left in 2014 and joined theEuropean Conservatives and Reformists in 2019, which was led by Meloni from 2020 to 2025.[ 49] [ 50] FdI proposes a "confederal Europe" of nations as opposed to a "federal Europe ".[ 51] [ 52] [ 53]
History
Background and foundation In November 2012,Ignazio La Russa andMaurizio Gasparri , leaders of theProtagonist Right , a faction withinThe People of Freedom (PdL), announced their support forAngelino Alfano in the party primary scheduled for December.[ 54] The subsequent cancellation of the primary was not agreed with by La Russa and many others in the party. On 16 December 2012,Giorgia Meloni ,Fabio Rampelli ,Guido Crosetto , andGiuseppe Cossiga organised in Rome the Primaries of Ideas,[ 55] in which they openly criticisedSilvio Berlusconi 's leadership and any possible prospect of an electoral alliance with Prime MinisterMario Monti , proposed by some leading factions of the party, among themLiberamente ,Network Italy ,Reformism and Freedom ,Liberal Populars ,New Italy , andFareItalia .[ 56] [ 57]
On 17 December 2012, La Russa, one of the three PdL national coordinators, announced he was leaving the party to form the "National Centre-right" (Centrodestra Nazionale ), including not just right-wingers but alsoChristian democrats andliberals fromForza Italia (FI) such as Crosetto and Cossiga.[ 58] The split from the PdL was agreed with Berlusconi to better represent the Italian right and offer an appealing choice to right-wing voters.[ 58] Simultaneously, Crosetto and Meloni announced the formation of "Brothers of Italy", whose name was taken from the first line of theItalian national anthem .[ 59] On 21 December, the two groups, formed mainly by former members ofNational Alliance such as La Russa, Meloni, Rampelli, Massimo Corsaro, Viviana Beccalossi, andAlfredo Mantica , joined forces as "Brothers of Italy – National Centre-right",[ 60] usually shortened to Brothers of Italy (FdI). La Russa's followers soon formed their own groups in most regional councils, starting with theRegional Council of Lombardy ,[ 61] and theSenate of the Republic .[ 62] Carlo Fidanza andMarco Scurria , MEPs in theEuropean People's Party group , also joined the party.[ 63]
2013 general election and aftermath In the2013 Italian general election , the party obtained 2.0% of the vote and won nine seats in theChamber of Deputies .[ 64] On 5 March 2013, the party's executive board appointed La Russa president, Crosetto coordinator, and Meloni leader in the Chamber of Deputies. During the2013 Italian presidential election 's fourth ballot on 19 April, FdI decided to supportFranco Marini , aDemocratic Party (PD) member supported also by PdL andLega Nord (LN). Following the unsuccessful outcome of the vote, FdI started voting for colonel Sergio De Caprio, known for having arrestedSicilian Mafia bossSalvatore Riina .[ 65] On 29 April, Meloni announced in the Chamber of Deputies the party's vote of no confidence forEnrico Letta 's government, supported by PD, PdL, andCivic Choice .[ 66]
In September 2013, FdI launched "Workshop for Italy" (Officina per l'Italia , abbr. OpI), a political initiative aimed at broadening the party's base.[ 67] The newly formed OpI's political committee, led by Cossiga, included, among others, former minister of Foreign AffairsGiulio Terzi di Sant'Agata , former members of AN (notably includingGianni Alemanno ,Mario Landolfi ,Sergio Berlato ,Adolfo Urso , andSouad Sbai ), former members of FI (including formerSocialists such asGiulio Tremonti andAntonio Guidi , and formerChristian Democrats such as Fabio Garagnani), former members of theUnion of the Centre (Magdi Allam and Luciano Ciocchetti), and a former member of the LN (Oreste Rossi).[ 68] Alemanno'sItaly First and Urso'sFareItalia were to join FdI by February 2014.[ 69] [ 70]
National Alliance Foundation Giorgia Meloni andGuido Crosetto in 2014In December 2013, the National Alliance Foundation, the association in charge of administering the assets of the defunct party, authorised FdI, supported by Alemanno and Urso, to use the logo of AN in the2014 European Parliament election in Italy ,[ 71] despite opposition from theMovement for National Alliance alternative front composed ofThe Right ,Future and Freedom ,Tricolour Flame ,I the South , andNew Alliance ,[ 72] as well as the former members of AN who had joined FI such as senatorsMaurizio Gasparri andAltero Matteoli .[ 73]
In February 2014, the party organised a primary in which members and supporters agreed to change the party's name to Brothers of Italy – National Alliance, chose the new symbol, including in small AN's one, and re-elected Meloni as president.[ 74] During the party's first congress in March 2014, FdI ratified the primary's outcomes; the congress also voted for the party to leave theEuropean People's Party Group in theEuropean Parliament and adoptEurosceptic positions.[ 75] [ 76] In the2014 European Parliament election in Italy , FdI obtained 3.7% of the vote and no seats, while doing well in Central and Southern Italy, especially inLazio (5.6%),Umbria (5.4%),Abruzzo (4.7%), andCampania (4.5%), as well as in north-easternFriuli-Venezia Giulia (4.4%).[ 77]
During an assembly of the association in October 2015, the representatives of FdI, supported by former AN heavyweights who had remained in the PdL, won a decisive vote over a front led by Alemanno, who had left FdI earlier, joined forces with former allies ofGianfranco Fini and wanted to form a larger party, including FdI, which retained the use of AN's name and symbol, while Alemanno announced that he would create a Movement for the United Right.[ 78] [ 79]
Road to the 2018 general election In November 2015, it was announced that the party would undergo a new process of enlargement and that a new political committee, namedOur Land (TN), would be launched by January 2016. TN would comprise FdI, along with other right-wing politicians, notably including Cossiga (former deputy of FI and founding member of FdI),Alberto Giorgetti (a deputy of FI, who was long a member of AN) and Walter Rizzetto (deputy ofFree Alternative , originally elected with theFive Star Movement ).[ 80] [ 81] [ 82] In March 2016, Rizzetto officially joined FdI and it was announced that the party's group in the Chamber would be renamed Brothers of Italy–Our Land.[ 83] [ 84] [ 85] The name change never happened, but the party's enlargement continued with the switch of two deputies from FI.[ 86]
In the2016 Rome municipal election , Meloni ran for mayor with the support ofUs with Salvini but in competition with the candidate supported by FI. Meloni won 20.6% of the vote, almost twice than FI's candidate, but did not qualify for the run-off, while FdI obtained 12.3%.[ 87] In the2017 Sicilian regional election ,Nello Musumeci , a conservative close to the party,[ 88] [ 89] was electedpresident of Sicily .[ 90]
During the party's second congress in December 2017, Meloni was re-elected president, the party was renamed simply Brothers of Italy, and a new symbol was unveiled. In the event, FdI welcomed several newcomers, notably includingDaniela Santanchè and Bruno Mancuso,[ 91] respectively from FI andPopular Alternative (AP).[ 92] [ 93] [ 94] Mancuso became the party's third senator after Stefano Bertacco,[ 95] as well as Bartolomeo Amidei,[ 96] had previously switched from FI. Additionally, Crosetto and Urso returned to an active role in the party.[ 97] Finally,Alessandro Urzì led theAlto Adige in the Heart party into FdI.[ 98]
Meloni (left) with Matteo Salvini (centre) and Silvio Berlusconi (right) at theQuirinal Palace after the 2018 election
2018 general election and aftermath In the2018 Italian general election , as part of thecentre-right coalition ,[ 99] FdI obtained 4.4% of the vote and won more than three times the seats won in 2013.[ 100] In November 2018, in the run-up to the2019 European Parliament election in Italy , the party agreed to join theEuropean Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group in the European Parliament,[ 101] [ 102] opening the way for a pact with other minor conservative parties in Italy, notably includingRaffaele Fitto 'sDirection Italy .[ 103] [ 104] On 29 October 2019, Direction Italy officially merged into FdI,[ 105] and on 7 December 2019 theNational Movement for Sovereignty ofRoberto Menia andGianni Alemanno merged into FdI.[ 106] In 2020, other minor right-wing parties, such as Gabriella Peluso's Protagonist South and Lorenzo Loiacono's Right Bank, also merged into FdI.[ 107] [ 108]
Party memberMarco Marsilio won 48.0% of the vote in the2019 Abruzzo regional election and became FdI's first regional president on 10 February.[ 109] Since governing the region, which ranked as the ninth-worst region by number of deaths per capita during theCOVID-19 pandemic in Italy , critics said undermined access to abortion and privatised health care, FdI has made it harder for migrants to accesssocial housing . Meloni reclaimed this by saying that "Italians first is not just a slogan."[ 110] For the2019 European Parliament election , FdI recruited several candidates, including five outgoing MEPs (two of Direction Italy, plus three more recent splinters from FI:Fabrizio Bertot ,Stefano Maullu , andElisabetta Gardini ), other former FI politicians (Alfredo Antoniozzi and Monica Stefania Baldi), and sociologistFrancesco Alberoni .[ 111] FdI obtained 6.4% of the vote (10.3% inCalabria , 9.0% in Lazio, 8.9% inApulia , and 8.4% inBasilicata ) and five MEPs.[ 112] [ 113]
For the2022 Italian presidential election on 24–29 January, FdI votedCarlo Nordio when all the other main parties proposed a re-election of incumbent presidentSergio Mattarella .[ 114] [ 115] [ 116] In April 2022, the party organised a large convention inMilan , to discuss its political program and start the campaign for the next general election.[ 117] [ 118]
Road to the 2022 general election FdI volunteers canvassing inCascina ,Tuscany , three days before the 2022 general election; on the rightClaudio Borghi Aquilini (League) Heading into the2022 Italian general election rising in the polls,[ 119] [ 120] [ 121] asnap election that was called after the2022 Italian government crisis ,[ 122] [ 123] it was agreed among the centre-right coalition that the leader of the party receiving the most votes would become prime minister candidate.[ 124] As of July 2022, FdI was first party in the coalition according to opinion polling,[ 125] [ 126] and she was widely expected to becomePrime Minister of Italy if the centre-right coalition obtained anabsolute majority in Parliament, which would be the most right-wing government in thehistory of the Italian Republic according to some academics.[ 127]
In an attempt to moderate the party to placate fears among those who describe FdI asneo-fascist orfar-right ,[ 128] including fears within theEuropean Commission that she could lead Italy towards Hungary underViktor Orbán ,[ 129] Meloni told the foreign press thatItalian fascism is history. As president of theEuropean Conservatives and Reformists Party , she said she shared the experiences and values of theConservative Party in the United Kingdom,Likud in Israel, and theRepublican Party in the United States.[ 130] [ 131]
2022 general election and aftermath Giorgia Meloni at theQuirinal Palace accepting the task of forming anew government In the run-up to the election, several politicians previously affiliated with Berlusconi's FI joined the FdI electoral lists.[ 132] [ 133] Notably, they includedGiulio Tremonti (ex-PSI and ex-FI, former finance minister),[ 134] Marcello Pera (ex-PSI and ex-FI, former president of the Senate),Antonio Guidi (ex-PSI and ex-FI, former family and social solidarity minister),Giulio Terzi di Sant'Agata (former foreign affairs minister, honorary president of thePRT ),[ 135] Carlo Nordio (former prosecutor, member of thePLI ),[ 136] andEugenia Roccella (a formerRadical and feminist who later turned into aconservative feminist ),[ 137] among others.[ 138] General election candidateCalogero Pisano was sacked after praisingAdolf Hitler .[ 139] While he remained a candidate, FdI removed its symbol from his candidature;[ 140] he was elected in the single-district constituency ofAgrigento ,Sicilia with 37.8% of the vote.[ 141] In one of Rome's single-seat constituencies,Ester Mieli , a former spokesperson of the local Jewish community and granddaughter of aHolocaust survivor ,[ 142] was elected with 37.5% of the vote.[ 143] [ 144]
In a record-lowvoter turnout election,[ 145] exit polls projected that the centre-right coalition would win a majority of seats in the 2022 general election.[ 39] [ 146] [ 147] Meloni was projected to be the winner of the election with FdI receiving a plurality of seats,[ 148] and per agreement with the centre-right coalition, which held that the largest party in the coalition would nominate the next prime minister,[ 149] she is the favourite to become Prime Minister and would be the country's first woman to hold the office.[ 150] [ 151] On 13 October, the new parliamentary term started and FdI's La Russa was electedPresident of the Senate of the Republic ;[ 152] he is the first politician with a neo-fascist background and to come from apost-fascist party to hold the position, which is the second highest-ranking office of the Italian Republic.[ 153] [ 154] [ 155]
After customary talks among the parties and the president,Sergio Mattarella , as part of the2022 Italian government formation on 20–21 October,[ 156] [ 157] Meloni accepted the task of forming a new government and announced theMeloni government , which assumed official functions after each ministers were sworn in on 22 October.[ 158] [ 159] It was variously described as a shift to thepolitical right ,[ 160] and the firstfar-right -led coalition, as well as its first far-right leader,[ 161] [ 162] [ 163] since the Second World War.[ 164] [ 165] Other than Meloni, the government included 9 FdI ministers, notably including Nordio at Justice, Crosetto at Defense, and Urso at Economic Development.[ 37] The Meloni government successfully won theconfidence votes on 25–26 October with a comfortable majority in both houses of theItalian Parliament .[ 166] [ 167] [ 168]
During the annual party convention, named afterMichael Ende 's characterAtreju , which took place in December 2023, international guests included British Prime MinisterRishi Sunak , Albanian Prime MinisterEdi Rama , Spanish right-wing leaderSantiago Abascal and businessmanElon Musk .[ 169] [ 170] [ 171]
In the2024 European Parliament election , Meloni led the party in all five constituencies, after presenting the event as a vote of confidence on her leadership and government.[ 172] Differently from other parties, FdI privileged party stalwarts over signature candidates.[ 173] A rare exception was the inclusion ofVittorio Sgarbi ,[ 174] whose candidacy would not succeed.[ 175] FdI came in first place in the election, winning 28.9% of the vote and 24 seats, ahead of the PD and centre-right coalition partners. Meloni, who was a candidate in all five constituencies, received 2.3 million preferences votes and was the most voted individual in the election.[ 176] The second most voted candidate in the party wasNicola Procaccini , outgoing chairman of theEuropean Conservatives and Reformists group.[ 177]
In September 2024, FdI was admitted into theInternational Democracy Union .[ 178]
Ideology and factions Academics and political commentators have variously described FdI's political position asright-wing ,[ 179] [ 180] [ 181] radical right ,[ 46] [ 182] as well asfar-right .[ 183] [ 184] [ 185] The party has been characterised asconservative ,[ 40] [ 41] national-conservative ,[ 186] [ 7] [ 187] [ 8] [ 188] social-conservative ,[ 42] right-wing populist ,[ 9] [ 10] [ 11] nationalist ,[ 43] [ 44] [ 189] neo-fascist ,[ 45] [ 41] post-fascist ,[ 190] [ 5] [ 6] [ 191] [ 192] andnativist .[ 46] [ 193] [ 9] [ 11] Although FdI rejects the "neo-fascist" label, it has been applied due to the party's history dating back to theItalian Social Movement (MSI),[ 194] its far-right ties,[ 195] [ 196] [ 197] its appeal to neo-fascist themes on social media such asFacebook ,[ 198] and some party leaders' nostalgia forItalian fascism ,[ 199] [ 200] [ 201] [ 202] includingRoman salutes .[ 203] Some party members have celebratedBenito Mussolini , with fascist memorabilia in some local offices.[ 204] [ 205] [ 206] Some members of theMussolini family have run for FdI, such asRachele Mussolini , granddaughter of Mussolini, for theCity Council of Rome , and Caio Giulio Cesare Mussolini, great-grandson of Mussolini, for the2019 European Parliament election .[ 207]
In 2019, academic Đorđe Sredanović placed FdI, along with the neo-fascist partiesCasaPound (a split fromTricolour Flame , which refused to join theNational Alliance ) andNew Force (FN) from theTerza Posizione tradition, in the post-fascist/neo-fascist categories.[ 208] In October 2021, FdI distanced itself from FN after they violently assaulted the labour unionItalian General Confederation of Labour 's headquarters; the party abstained on a parliamentary motion to ban FN while condemning "alltotalitarianisms ". A December 2021 investigation byFanpage.it on allegations of money laundering and illicit campaign financing also revealed FdI had ties withneo-Nazis in the Milan party section.[ 209] Meloni toldCorriere della Sera there were no "nostalgic fascists, racists or antisemites in the Brothers of Italy DNA" and that she had always got rid of "ambiguous people",[ 131] and in other interviews she said there was no place for fascist nostalgia in FdI.[ 27]
On economic issues, the party takes inspiration from both theeconomic interventionism ofSocial Right and theeconomic liberalism ofReaganomics , advocating tax cuts andworkfare schemes.[ 210] In opposition, the party advocated moreprotectionist measures.[ 211]
In regards to social issues, the party opposeseuthanasia andabortion . It also has been described as being strictly "anti-gay marriage" and supporting the "traditional family unit".[ 212] The party collaborates withanti-abortion andanti-LGBTQ+ movements.[ 213] FdI calls for azero-tolerance policy onillegal immigration and wants to blockade migrants from reaching Italian ports and boost the birth rate of Italian nationals to ease the need for migrant labour.[ 214] FdI, frequently described asEurosceptic ,[ 40] [ 47] [ 215] aims at a "confederal Europe" of sovereign nations as opposed to a "federal Europe ",[ 51] [ 52] [ 53] and wants to "re-discuss"European Union treaties and amend Italy's constitution to give Italian law priority over European law.[ 214] [ 216] Once in favour of withdrawing from theeurozone ,[ 217] [ 218] the party abandoned the idea.[ 219] [ 220] Prior to the start of the2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine , the party was in favour of better relations with Russia while maintaining a pro-NATO stance.[ 40] Since then, it has condemned the invasion and promised to send arms to Ukraine,[ 221] and Meloni moved the party towardsAtlantism .[ 48] [ 222] [ 223] Besides being a leading member of theEuropean Conservatives and Reformists Party , FdI has ties with theConservative Party in the United Kingdom,Likud in Israel,[ 224] and theRepublican Party in the United States, where Meloni has been a guest at theCPAC Conference in February 2022.[ 225]
FdI had several organised internal factions, including a minorliberal-conservative faction.[ 226] It has also been stated that some internal wings of the party have ties to the neo-fascism movement.[ 227] [ 228] Factions include:
Italy First (Prima l'Italia , PI),national-conservative , led byGianni Alemanno (until 2015, later joinedNational Action )FareItalia (FI,lit. ' Make Italy ' ), liberal-conservative, led by Adolfo Urso I Love Italy (Io Amo l'Italia , IAI), social-conservative, led byMagdi Allam (until 2015)I the South (Io Sud , IS), national-conservative andcentrist , led byAdriana Poli Bortone (until 2015, later joinedForza Italia )National Movement for Sovereignty (Movimento Nazionale per la Sovranità , MNS), national-conservative, led by Gianni AlemannoDirection Italy (Direzione Italia , DI), liberal-conservative, led byRaffaele Fitto Alemanno and Poli Bortone left FdI, along with their factions, in December 2014 and April 2015, respectively.[ 229] [ 230] In December 2019, Alemanno returned through the MNS.[ 231]
In June 2024, aFanpage.it journalist infiltrated a Roman section of the party's youth organisation "National Youth ". The resulting investigation showed how militants frequently use the Nazi slogan "Sieg Heil! ", makefascist salutes and praiseBenito Mussolini . The organisation is said to have a policy of masking all these aspects publicly, while in private they are tolerated and promoted.[ 232] [ 233] [ 234]
Election results
Italian Parliament Election Leader Chamber of Deputies Senate of the Republic Votes % Seats +/– Position Votes % Seats +/– Position 2013 Giorgia Meloni 666,035 1.9 New 8th 590,083 1.9 New 7th 2018 1,429,550 4.4 23 5th1,286,606 4.3 18 5th2022 7,302,517 26.0 87 1st7,167,136 26.0 48 1st
European Parliament
Regional councils Region Election year Votes % Seats +/− Status in legislature Aosta Valley 2025 6,634 (3rd) 11.0 4No seats Piedmont 2024 403,954 (1st) 24.4 9Majority Lombardy 2023 725,402 (1st) 25.2 19Majority South Tyrol 2023 16,747 (5th) 6.0 1Majority Trentino 2023 28,714 (3rd) 12.4 5Majority Veneto 2020 196,310 (4th) 9.5 4Majority Friuli-Venezia Giulia 2023 71,503 (2nd) 18.1 6Majority Emilia-Romagna 2024 23.74 (2nd) 23.7 8Opposition Liguria 2024 84,816 (2nd) 15.1 2Majority Tuscany 2025 340,202 (2nd) 26.8 9Opposition Marche 2025 155,540 (1st) 27.4 3Majority Umbria 2024 62,419 (2nd) 19.4 1Opposition Lazio 2023 519,633 (1st) 33.6 19Majority Abruzzo 2024 139,578 (1st) 24.1 6Majority Molise 2023 26,649 (1st) 18.9 3Majority Campania 2020 140,918 (5th) 6.0 2Opposition Apulia 2020 211,693 (2nd) 12.6 7Opposition Basilicata 2024 45,458 (1st) 17.4 3Majority Calabria 2025 88,335 (4th) 11.6 Majority Sicily 2022 282,345 (1st) 15.1 10Majority Sardinia 2024 93,122 (2nd) 13.6 5Opposition
Leadership President:Giorgia Meloni ,Ignazio La Russa ,Guido Crosetto (2012–2013), Ignazio La Russa (2013–2014), Giorgia Meloni (2014–present) President of the National Assembly: Ignazio La Russa (2014–present) Coordinator of the National Board:Edmondo Cirielli (2018–present) Leader in theChamber of Deputies : Giorgia Meloni (2013–2014),Fabio Rampelli (2014–2018),Francesco Lollobrigida (2018–2022),Tommaso Foti (2022–2024),Galeazzo Bignami (2024–present) Leader in theSenate :Maria Alessandra Gallone (2012–2013),Stefano Bertacco (2017–2018),Luca Ciriani (2018–2022),Lucio Malan (2022–present) Leader in theEuropean Parliament :Carlo Fidanza (2019–present)
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