their particular obsession is with gender equality laws and laws dealing with violence against women, over 1,200 women killed by their partners, and they ve enacted progressive legislation to deal with it and special courts to deal with violence against women. vox is against these, considers these institutions are a challenge and a threat toward men of a certain age. they also consider that the lgbtq movement has gone way too far here. they re looking to crack down on transgender rights in certain parts of the country, they banned pride flags, for example. we re looking at a lot of measures targeting social issues and then a lot of measures that more widely worry europe. vox would like to deploy the spanish navy to stop migrant ships. it is openly euro-skeptic and wants to crack down on the impact that brussels bureaucrats have on spain. te don t trust european courts. it would mark a major claim for the country. in terms of europe, a year ahead
barbie, you ve been following these elections closely. what more can you tell us at this stage? tell us where you are. reporter: we re in a polling station. the polls have been open about 2 1/2 hours. we ve seen a steady stream of people coming in to vote. this is a hugely crucial election here because the center right coalition led by the far-right party is euro skeptic, supported the ukraine war, but there are issues within that coalition that aren t necessarily cohesive. so we re seeing a lot of people coming out to vote today. the results will be in about 11:00 tonight local time. people are on tenterhooks to see how this vote is going to go. georgia malone would be the first female prime minister in a very male-dominated country, but she has issues among the feminist population. she s promised clamping down on abortion rights, she s made comments about lgbtq rights, things like that. so a first female prime minister in a country like italy doesn t
mal maloney and the anchors of the coalition that was pulling ahead are divided on how they see sanctions against russia going on and europe in general. it s a euro-skeptic potential here. what happens in italy at the end of today, voting ends at 11:00 tonight, will not just affect rome and not just affect italy, it will affect brussels and the wider europe as well, kim. and when we talk about sort of a far right party, i mean, you talked about europe, but for italy itself what kind of policies would they bring in assuming they win? reporter: well, you know, they are going to have a very strong anti-immigration policy, that s something they campaigned on. they will try to follow the problems of the economic crisis that s been looming in this country since even before the pandemic but certainly after the pandemic. their platform was very cohesive. a lot of the reason they are polling strongly is because the
she s leading a coalition that is anti-immigration, euro skeptic and has mixed feelings on russia and the continuing support to ukraine. the italians we ve talked to really do care about this. we will know how many people are going to the points, the voter turnout, but from what we re seeing it s been a steady stream all lorng long. interesting. and when you re saying so their far right party, what does that mean not just for italy but for the rest of europe? reporter: it is going to be very important throughout europe and also in a geopolitical level globally. within you look at this center right coalition anchored by giorgia meloni who is for the continued support of the war in ukraine her two coalition members are friends of vladimir putin and want to see a softening of sanctions. all three of these center right parties are euro skeptics. sergio berlasconi is less euro
polls closed, congratulating macron. and it seems to me and please correct me if i m wrong, it seems to me today is biggest loser is vladimir putin. funny you should put it that way because this is very true. when asked once why he lent her the money for her campaign when she could not get any french banks to lend her money because of the project, because it s a far right party, no matter how much it dresses itself up and how much she shifted her image, it is still a far right party, euro skeptic, anti nato, anti u.s. sot today one of the guests we had on said the first thing i thought and tweeted, he s a european adviser to this government, he said well in france today, putin was defeated. and that is how people are looking at these various political elections and the