Meloni makes history as coalition bags most votes

ROME: A party with neo-fascist roots, the Brothers of Italy, won the most votes in Italy's national elections and looks set to deliver the South European country's first far-right-led government since World War 2 and make party leader Giorgia Meloni its first woman premier, near-final results showed on Monday.

Italy's lurch to the far right immediately shifted Europe's geopolitical reality, placing a euroskeptic party in a position to lead a founding member of the European Union and its third-largest economy.