In Spain, there is a great tendency to compare the speech of Santiago Abascal with that of Matteo Salvini and little with that of Giorgia Meloni. The president of the patriotic Brothers of Italy party does not have the same international media reach as her compatriot, but her argument does not lack coincidences with that of Vox (Nationalist) Party.

In fact, Italy’s national leader is fashionable within the formation led by Roman politics, which was Minister of Youth in the fourth Government of Silvio Berlusconi and president of Giovane Italia, the youth section of The People of Liberty, force founded by the former ‘Cavaliere’ and which was dissolved in November 2013.

Spain’s anti-globalist Santiago Abascal was the only Spaniard invited to give a speech this weekend in Atreju, a meeting that the training organises annually and which was also attended by the Prime Minister of Hungary, Victor Orbán, and the former Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, among others. All three have been received like stars on the Tiber Island.

Meloni, who is proud to have been the only politician who has never moved from the right and who accuses Matteo Renzi of letting Merkel and Macron write the speeches, has become one of those in charge of being decisive in bringing her Spanish counterpart, Santiago Abascal into the international coalition of anti-globalist nationalists.

In the last European elections, the Brothers of Italy, Meloni’s party, got 6.5% of the votes. Although it is not a very high percentage, it is worth noting its good reception, especially in the central regions of the neighbouring country. Everything has changed as pollsters and pundits agree that the Rome former journalist has the same level of popularity as Salvini (44%). They are only surpassed by Conte and European commissioner Paolo Gentiloni.

The fierce defence of secure borders against mass immigration and its pro-life approaches have led to more and more Vox members embracing the Italian leader’s speech. Abascal’s latest new colleague was born and raised in the popular neighbourhood of Garbatella, in Rome. Meloni’s political commitment began at the age of 15, when, according to her official biography, she felt the desire to build a different future for his country after the Via D’Amelio massacre, in which judge Paolo Borsellino lost his life.

A tireless tweeter, she currently recognises in the Hungarian Orbán and in his training, Fidesz, the mirror in which to look at herself. ’He is a patriot like us, a person who is not afraid to defend European identity and denounce the Islamization of Europe,’ he applauded. Source