Brothers of Italy

Italian political party

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2024 Galeazzo Bignami becomes Leader in the Chamber of Deputies.
2024 Secures 8 seats in the Emilia-Romagna regional council election, winning second place with 23.74% of votes and positioned in the opposition.
2024 Wins 3 seats in the Basilicata regional council election, securing first place with 17.4% of votes and maintaining a majority position.
2024 Wins 2 seats in the Liguria regional council election, securing second place with 15.1% of votes and maintaining a majority position.
2024 Secures 6 seats in the Abruzzo regional council election, winning first place with 24.1% of votes and achieving a majority position.
2024 Wins 9 seats in the Piedmont regional council election, securing first place with 24.4% of votes.
2024 Obtains 5 seats in the Sardinia regional council election, winning second place with 13.6% of votes and positioned in the opposition.
2024 European Parliament election where Meloni leads the party in all five constituencies, with Brothers of Italy winning 28.9% of the vote and 24 seats.
September 2024 Brothers of Italy is admitted into the International Democracy Union.
June 2024 A Fanpage.it investigation exposed Nazi and fascist behaviors within the party's youth organization 'National Youth', revealing militants using Nazi slogans and making fascist salutes.
2023 Arianna Meloni appointed as Head of Political Secretariat.
2023 Wins 5 seats in the Trentino regional council election, achieving a majority position.
2023 Wins 19 seats in the Lombardy regional council election, securing first place with 25.2% of votes and a majority position.
2023 Wins 19 seats in the Lazio regional council election, securing first place with 33.6% of votes and a majority position.
2023 Obtains 1 seat in the South Tyrol regional council election, maintaining a majority position.
2023 Secures 6 seats in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia regional council election, winning second place with 18.1% of votes and maintaining a majority position.
2023 Wins 3 seats in the Molise regional council election, securing first place with 18.9% of votes and a majority position.
December 2023 Annual party convention Atreju takes place, featuring international guests including British PM Rishi Sunak, Albanian PM Edi Rama, Spanish right-wing leader Santiago Abascal, and businessman Elon Musk.
2022 Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, FdI condemned the invasion and promised to send arms to Ukraine, shifting the party's stance towards Atlantism.
2022 Giovanni Donzelli becomes Organisational Secretary. Tommaso Foti becomes Leader in the Chamber of Deputies. Lucio Malan becomes Leader in the Senate.
2022 Giovanni Donzelli becomes Organisational Secretary of the party.
2022 Secures 10 seats in the Sicily regional council election, winning first place with 15.1% of votes.
2022 Brothers of Italy achieves a major electoral breakthrough, winning 26% of votes and becoming the first party in both the Chamber of Deputies (87 seats) and the Senate (48 seats), marking Giorgia Meloni's rise to national political prominence.
2022 Brothers of Italy became the largest party in the Italian general election, marking a significant political shift.
October 25 2022 Meloni government successfully wins confidence votes in both houses of the Italian Parliament, establishing the first far-right-led coalition since World War II.
October 22 2022 Meloni government officially assumes functions after ministers are sworn in.
October 20 2022 Giorgia Meloni accepts the task of forming a new government following talks with President Sergio Mattarella.
October 13 2022 First day of the new parliamentary term, with Ignazio La Russa elected President of the Senate of the Republic, becoming the first politician with a neo-fascist background to hold this position.
April 2022 The party organized a large convention in Milan to discuss its political program and launch the campaign for the upcoming general election.
February 2022 Giorgia Meloni was a guest at the CPAC Conference in the United States.
January 2022 During the Italian presidential election (24-29 January), FdI voted for Carlo Nordio, while other main parties supported incumbent president Sergio Mattarella's re-election.
2021 Wins 4 seats in the Calabria regional council election, achieving a majority position.
December 2021 A Fanpage.it investigation revealed potential ties between FdI and neo-Nazis in the Milan party section.
October 2021 FdI distanced itself from New Force (FN) after they violently assaulted the Italian General Confederation of Labour's headquarters.
2020 Secures 7 seats in the Apulia regional council election, positioned in the opposition.
2020 Obtains 7 seats in the Marche regional council election, securing a majority position.
2020 Wins 2 seats in the Campania regional council election, positioned in the opposition.
2020 Wins 3 seats in the Tuscany regional council election, positioned in the opposition.
2020 Party participates in a joint list with Forza Italia in Aosta Valley, securing no seats.
2020 Secures 4 seats in the Veneto regional council election, achieving a majority position.
2020 Giorgia Meloni became leader of the European Conservatives and Reformists group.
2019 Carlo Fidanza continues as Leader in the European Parliament.
2019 Brothers of Italy wins 1 seat in the Umbria regional council election, securing a majority position.
2019 Brothers of Italy increases electoral performance, winning 6.4% of votes and securing 6 seats in the European Parliament, moving up to 5th position in the ECR Group.
2019 Brothers of Italy recruited several candidates for the European Parliament election, including five outgoing MEPs and former Forza Italia politicians.
2019 FdI joined the European Conservatives and Reformists political group.
December 2019 A Fanpage.it investigation revealed potential ties between FdI and neo-Nazis in the Milan party section.
December 2019 Gianni Alemanno returned to the party through the National Movement for Sovereignty (MNS) faction.
December 2019 Academic Đorđe Sredanović categorized FdI alongside neo-fascist parties CasaPound and New Force in the post-fascist/neo-fascist categories.
December 7 2019 The National Movement for Sovereignty, led by Roberto Menia and Gianni Alemanno, merged into Brothers of Italy.

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