The many questions surrounding Italy’s new right-wing leader

AFTER PARLIAMENtary elections, Giorgia Meloni, leader of the Brothers of Italy party, is set to become the first woman to lead her country’s government. That fact is obscured for many Europeans by accusations that she’ll also be Italy’s first fascist Prime Minister since World War II.

Meloni flatly rejects this charge, despite her party’s origins. Her party has “handed fascism over to history,”