Meloni won by just two votes in a marathon overnight session that could have ended in total defeat on one defector's whim, showing how narrow her path is moving forward. She campaigned across Italy — visiting over 50 towns personally (in the signature white Fiat Panda) and battling through multiple filibusters during a night-long vote that pushed into early morning hours. Her coalition isn't monolithic: it includes Giorgia Meloni of Fratelli d'Italia, Antonio Tajani from Forza Italia, Guido Crocco di San Quirico of Lega, Giorgio Schiaretta who joined later, and even Silvio Berlusconi's 'Forza Forza per Silvio' party — a mix that required months of negotiation to align on electoral reform. The legislation splits elections into two tiers (national vs regional) to cut voter confusion, but the close margin also reveals how thin her actual parliamentary majority is going forward. This win solidifies her as a steady European conservative leader despite internal coalition skepticism about changing long-standing political structures, and she'll likely use it to position herself against Rome's established elite — exactly the populist framing that built her platform.

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