In ten months, a new parliament will be elected in Italy.
The non-party Prime Minister Mario Draghi, who leads a broad coalition of left-wing populists, social democrats and right-wing nationalists, is not available for another term.
Opposition leader Giorgia Meloni of the post-fascist party "Brothers of Italy" is claiming to be his successor and, according to recent polls, has hopes of leading the next government in Rome.
Like Marine Le Pen in France, she is courting voters with a recently “moderate” right-wing populism.
It does not demand the Italexit, but wants to overcome the EU with a confederated "Europe of Nations".
Like Viktor Orbán in Hungary, Meloni advocates a hard-line national policy against illegal immigration, but is in favor of arms sales to Ukraine.
Meloni's model of Italian nationalism manages without anti-Americanism and without pandering to Russia or China.
Many Italian voters might find this offer attractive precisely because it doesn't draw sharp dividing lines between the right and the political center.
Italy faces difficult months: high inflation, looming recession.
In crises, the hour of opposition usually strikes.
Italy's leading force is the "Brothers of Italy".