Watch: Giorgia Meloni – The Power of the Clans (ARTE)

She is the first woman to hold the office of prime minister in Italy and the head of the third-longest government in the history of the Italian Republic

Who is Giorgia Meloni, the most powerful woman in Italy?

In the early 1990s, a young Meloni met an unusual group of neo-fascists, who took inspiration from Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, and helped her rise to power.

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