There is something deeply revealing in the controversy that the left has unleashed against the video made by Brothers of Italy for June 2nd. A short spot of a few minutes that tells the story of the first vote of women in 1946, the long path of female emancipation, and the historic milestone reached in 2022 with Giorgia Meloni’s arrival at Palazzo Chigi. A story that should unite. Instead, it divides. Because the final protagonist of that story is not a woman from the left.
The short film “The future needs you” tells the symbolic story of Teresa, a young wife and mother, who in 1946 is undecided whether to go to the polls (“if until now they have done without my vote, they can continue without it”). But in her dream, she sees the future of Italy unfold before her eyes: women conquering increasingly important roles in institutions, until the day Meloni becomes Prime Minister. Teresa smiles, moved, and decides to go to the polls.
The left’s response was a barrage of accusations: partial reconstruction, appropriation of history, personal celebration of the premier. La Stampa attacks: Meloni is the heir of a political faction rooted in the conservative right that was not exactly in favor of women’s suffrage… And the FdI senator, Ester Mieli, replies: “Beyond the sterile political polemic, there is a lot of chatter from the left that claims to be outraged by a video that celebrates women’s vote, made by Brothers of Italy. Not only do they present useless and unproductive arguments but they attack a government that has always been working to strengthen the role of women in politics, in the workforce, and in society.”
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The left has claimed the monopoly on women’s battles for decades, only to short-circuit when a woman breaks the glass ceiling without asking permission from progressive circles. The truth is that the premier represents a living contradiction for a certain political culture. She is a woman who has reached the top of the State without gender quotas, without preferential lanes, without being the product of ideological cooptation. She won the voters’ consensus and achieved a result that no left-wing leader had managed before: becoming the first female Prime Minister of the Italian Republic.
In the short film, made with funds from the 2 per thousand which, by law, must go at least partly to promoting women’s participation in political life, appear Tina Anselmi, Nilde Iotti, Maria Elisabetta Casellati, and Marta Cartabia, figures who marked fundamental milestones as female presence in Italian institutions. The message is clear: each generation opens a door to the next. As clear as it is that what irritates the premier’s opponents is not so much the content of the video, but the symbol it represents. Because Meloni broke a consolidated pattern: that female emancipation should have a single political color. Instead, women are free. Free to vote left, right, or center. Free to think with their own heads. Even free to identify with a center-right leader.
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