Jo McKenna
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510 appearances
15 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 9 Sep
Jo McKenna’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah, I think it's really interesting at the moment, um, not only because of the very powerful rise of the far right leader Roberto Venacci, who's got about seven percent of the popularity at the moment, but he he is also uh up against the Deputy Prime Minister Mateo Solvini, the head of the league, who described the AFD win as an extraordinary success, and he called it all about democracy.
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Now that puts him again
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against his coalition partner, the Forza Italia, uh they take a tough line against the AFD and in in all of this uh the Prime Minister Giorgio Maloney has really been silent.
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Well, Salvini's trying to make mileage out of it because his popularity's in trouble, so he's cr trying to create a difference for himself a a different spin in within the right.
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Uh and as I said, Fort Italia says a has a tough line against AFD and it's very pro EU.
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And that leaves Georgia Maloney in a very difficult position as she's trying to bring everyone together.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, I think that's a very good way of putting it.
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He's euphoric about this result.
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His national future party wants to end same sex unions.
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It wants stricter immigration controls and it's very pro Russia.
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So he says, Stop calling us extremists.
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This is a popular wave and so he wants to take advantage of this.
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Well that's the issue.
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Uh it's more of an issue that if uh Salvini continues to fall in popularity, that uh weakens uh Maloney's coalition and she may need to turn to Venacci for support going into that election next year.
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Uh n well she's trying to move ahead with electoral reform that's very controversial and many people within the electorate see this as a grab for power.
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She's trying to change the system, it's a little hard to compli uh to explain, but it's uh first past the post and proportional representation.
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It look, it looks like she wants to increase the the power of the coalition going into this election and this is being debated in the Senate at the moment.
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If no coalition reaches the threshold
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It becomes a purely proportional system.
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