At 2:30 a.m. came the moment that militants of the right-wing Brothers of Italy party had been waiting for, when their leader Giorgia Meloni appeared at the luxury hotel in Rome housing her electoral headquarters.
A roar went up as Meloni began to speak, recalling the sacrifices made over the years as the party rose from being a marginal far-right group to become Italy's strongest political force at Sunday's election.
The centre-right bloc she spearheads is seen winning a comfortable majority in both houses of parliament, paving the way for her to become Italy's first woman prime minister. "This is a starting point, not a finishing line, from tomorrow we have to prove our worth," said an emotional Meloni.
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