From Meloni’s viral video to Berlusconi’s kiss: Italy elections in pictures

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The election day, which passed without incident in Italy, left some images that caused people to speak in a long wait for the results.

cantaloupe melon

While everyone was waiting for the arrival of Giorgia Meloni, the leader of the Brotherhood of Italy and his big favorite, at the Vittorio Bachelet school on the outskirts of Rome, the far right at the end of the day delayed its emergence and released a video. Her social networks (melon, Spanish) where she appears with two melons at chest height to play with her surname. And smiling at the camera and winking, “September 25. I said it all.” said.

Berlusconi’s kiss

In turn, like any citizen, the four-time president and president of Forza Italia, Silvio Berlusconi, awaited his turn to vote while kissing in Milan with his partner and party vice-president, Marta Fascina. Later, when asked if she would sing the Italian partisans’ song Bella Ciao on her way out of the polls, she said “no, it’s a leftist song”.

Forza Italia leader Silvio Berlusconi and partner Marta Fascina vote in Milan.

Draghi’s appreciation

Wearing a jacket, but not wearing his usual tie, he waited in the long queue with his wife, whom the citizens said goodbye to with applause while leaving the ballot box, and Prime Minister Mario Draghi, who is still in office.

Former Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi will vote at a ballot box in Rome this Sunday. FILIPPO ATTILI

Salvini breaks election silence

Bypassing all the rules, Salvini, like other politicians, did not limit himself to encouraging people to vote. “I say that the League is the parliamentary power on the podium: first, second or at most third. From tomorrow we will move from commitments to action, we have clear ideas,” he said as he left his school in Milan.

League leader Matteo Salvini speaks to the media in front of the Milan electoral college where he voted. MASSIMO PINCA

Cheers to Mattarella

At the entrance of President Serio Mattarella, at his school in Palermo, the constituents of the electoral desk and the president greeted him with a standing ovation. The 81-year-old lawyer from Palermo had to run one of the most difficult legislative assemblies in Italian history and even had to accept a new seven-year term in the face of the inaction of the political parties. Should he intervene again after today’s results?

Italian President Sergio Mattarella (centre) arrived at the polling station in Palermo to vote. IGO PETYX

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