Italian communists welcome Meloni’s referendum defeat, call for broader political struggle

In a result described as a “clear political slap” to the far-right government of Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s recent referendum on justice reforms has produced a decisive rejection of the proposed constitutional changes. 

 

According to the Communist Front (Italy), the outcome reflects not only opposition to a specific reform, but a wider and deepening discontent with the current political direction of the country.

 

KKE: Statement on the result of the elections in Italy

Following the result in the Italian general election and the victory of the far-right bloc, the Press Office of the CC of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) issued a statement (here in Greek).

 

The statement reads:

"The electoral result in Italy, with a record abstention and the far-right as the first power, only foreshadows the continuation and escalation of the anti-people policy in the neighboring country. The “anti-systemic” cheap-talks of Meloni, the leader of the far-right bloc, cannot hide the assurances of loyalty to EU and NATO, her alignment with their plans in the war between thieves in Ukraine and the aspiration of the Italian bourgeois class, through the recovering of the far-right, to shield the interests of the third strongest economic power in the intensifying competition within the EU.