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Meloni's record term faces far-right challenge from the northeast
Giorgia Meloni's government becomes Italy's longest-lasting since WWII, even as Roberto Vannacci's Futuro Nazionale polls strongly in the northeast.
Sergio Madrussan · 412 words
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