The leaders of the French extreme right have rushed to congratulate Georgia Meloni on her electoral victory in Italy. Both Marine Le Pen and Éric Zemmour are encouraged to continue fighting for power.
Le Pen, leader of the National Rally (RN, former National Front) and who achieved 41% of the vote against Emmanuel Macron in the presidential elections last April, published a tweet in which he stated that "the Italian people have decided to resume their destiny in his hand by electing a patriotic and sovereignist government".
Le Pen has not had an easy relationship with Meloni in recent years. The Italian did not ask for the vote of the leader of the RN in the past presidential elections. Le Pen has always been much closer to Matteo Salvini, the leader of the League. All in all, the electoral victory of the right-wing and extreme-right coalition is excellent news for Le Pen, especially because it supports her thesis that the RN could in the future be a unifying force for the conservatives, breaking the taboo that it cannot be make a coalition with the extreme right.
"Bravo to Giorgia Meloni and Matteo Salvini for having resisted the threats of an undemocratic and arrogant European Union by obtaining this great victory!" Le Pen stressed.
The founder of the Reconquista party, Éric Zemmour, congratulated himself on Meloni's success in these terms: "How can we not look at this victory as proof that it is possible to come to power?" The far-right leader, who failed in the presidential and legislative elections, issued a statement in which he referred to the victories of his ideological allies in Sweden and Italy and assured that "in recent weeks we have experienced the second union of the right victorious in Europe, whose cement is clearly the question of identity".
According to Zemmour, the Italian people are "proud" and "reluctant to die." This is the same rhetoric he uses to talk about France. The Reconquista leader sees Meloni's rise as a mirror. He recalled that four years ago she obtained 4% of the vote and now Brothers of Italy is the first party. Zemmour dreams of doing the same, rejecting all ideological and political renunciation, maintaining his principles and waging "the cultural battle."
Although there is still no official reaction from the French government, it is obvious that an Italy governed by the extreme right is a problem. In recent weeks, moreover, the concern that exists in the Elysee and in Macron's party, Renaissance, about the rise of the extreme right and the possibility that it will also win in France in 2027 has become clear. Although there is still a long way to go time, there is concern and fear that Macron's presidency will open the doors to Le Pen, just as Obama gave way to Trump in the United States. Hence, Macron wants to emphasize security and immigration control policy, so as not to give arguments to his radical sovereignist rivals.
