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So far-right, anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant parties have been on the rise throughout Western Europe,

but they haven't actually taken power anywhere.

That could change after recent elections in Italy,

because this guy could be the next Italian Prime Minister.

So that's Mateel Salvini, the head of Italy's League, and what he's saying is we need a mass cleaning in Italy, from one street to the next, one neighborhood to the next, town square to town square, with strong methods if necessary, and it's the strong method of necessary

part that's particularly scary.

His party won the second most seats in last week's election which means he could be

Western Europe's first far right leader since 1945.

So Zach, let's start with the election itself because you've written about the

far right in Germany and France elsewhere.

They haven't done as well.

They did really well in Italy.

Why? Italy has a really fractured political system with very little public

trust in established parties and the incumbent Democratic Party had a huge drop-off for a variety of complex reasons. The result was that the

vote went primarily, in fact a rough majority, to two anti-establishment parties, the

five-star movement which is like an

ideologically confusing pretty unique movement they got the most votes and then

the League, formerly known as the Northern League, they were aligned the League

with several other right-wing parties.

And so the result is that they, as a coalition, have more seats in Parliament than the

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