Salvini & Meloni, hijos de la misma rabia

Matteo Salvini and Giorgia Meloni are the children of a new century in which the radical right seems to be moving inexorably towards the government. Salvini was already in power, Meloni also, more than ten years ago, led by Silvio Berlusconi. Today, everything indicates that they could govern without the support of Berlusconi's Forza Italia. How is it possible that today two radical parties occupy all the space of the Italian right? What do we understand by radical right-wing populist parties? What distinguishes them from a far-right party? What consequences does its heyday and its more than possible access to the Italian government have for Italy and Europe? To understand how we got to this situation we must go back to the first great crisis of the republican political system in Italy. At the beginning of the nineties of the last century, Italy would go through a serious political crisis. Most of the Italian leaders were involved in a corruption scheme that forced them to leave politics and between 1992 and 1994 the country was submerged in an interregnum from which the most diverse phenomena would emerge. Silvio Berlusconi, Umberto Bossi's Lega Nord and Gianfranco Fini's Alleanza Nazionale were the first consequences. Then came Matteo Salvini, Movimento 5 Stelle, and, finally, Giorgia Meloni. And it is that almost thirty years later, the echoes of Tangentopoli continue to resonate in the Italian political laboratory.