Two women are now at the forefront of Italian politics. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and the newly elected leader of the Democratic Party, Elly Schlein. But Schlein, a US-Italian national who once worked on Barack Obama’s election campaigns, could not be more different from the nationalist prime minister. The World’s Europe correspondent Orla Barry reports.
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