On election day last month, Giorgia Meloni appeared to have found a way to flout rules demanding candidates stop all campaigning. The Italian far-right leader posted a video of herself on social media holding two melons in front of her chest while winking into the camera and saying: “25 September [voting day], I’ve said everything.” Meloni in Italian means melons, and it is also slang for breasts.
For those who found the clip distasteful, the sexualised image was a further indication that Meloni would not
