Giorgia Meloni’s Instagram post goes live

Here is her Instagram post, if you want to get a taste of Giorgia Meloni's political style.

She says she is looking deeply into the camera and winking. She also happens to be carrying a pair of melons because melons, meloni, geddit?

If you want to get more of a sense of Meloni the politician, read this by my colleague Angela Giuffrida who visited Garbatella, the neighborhood of Rome where Meloni grew up and went to see what used to be the local branch of the neofascist Italian Social Movement MSI's youth wing.

Meloni knocked down the door aged 15 and signed up despite the violent confrontations between young left and rightwing militants in the early 1990s and the messages to kill the fascists that have been daubed on the walls of Garbatella. The toxic political atmosphere at the time was formative, according to those in the neighbourhood who have recollections of the young Meloni, whose Brothers of Italy party emerged from the National Alliance, a descendant of MSI.