FdI is a in shapeshifting phase.

The core values are still the ones of the post-fascist conservatism, which are nanny state, pro-birth policies, ethonationalism (you shouldn't be overhyped over here, it's the correct definition but it's nothing groundbreaking) and pro-white immigration and anti non-white immigration (Meloni came out with the formula "compatible immigration", which is the immigration from european countries or catholic countries like south america ones). That's at least something.

On the other hand, Meloni wants to get more power. This include the egemony over her european political group, which is the "European Conservatives and Reformists Party". Now that England is gone, FdI is the major player in the legue, but the other one is the poland PiS, which is, in my opionion, the reason beyond her very pro-nato stance, which is alienating her base atm. It's also a risky political move because on european level her party rely on the alliance with Identity and Democracy, and expecially with Hungary. There was quite a debate on tv, where a retired university professor, Franco Cardini, claimed that the party was betraying the anti-americanism of the old MSI. She's also big on military spending and probably will try to get some nukes, but i don't think that's a realistic plan. She seems to be sure that the americans will help us to have our own military stuff if we are vocal enough about Russian threat, which i suppose may be true, but we still have american military bases in the country and literally 90 american nukes on national soil which we have 0 access to. i would argue that if you are planning to get a big army, you should first remove the occupation army from your country. She also claimed something about the "sea priority", which implies she is planning to get the egemony over the mediterranean sea if she gets elected, probably trying to establish once again our informal commercial empire in north africa which was disrupted by the american wars of the last 20 years. That's totally unrealistic and she should focus on building stuff here within the nation and stop immigration once and for all before starting this useless imperialistic policy.

But the real biggest problem, the one that determines the shapeshifting, is that the party is understaffed. The the growth was too sudden and right now they are promoting everyone and their dogs to important positions. That means that the more traditional wing of the party, rooted in the post-fascism, is finally getting some bones, but also that we are literally promoting the most useless people in the world. Ridiculous women that openly claim the superiority of the males while holding political officies (what's the point? you are just alienating women and you are not gaining support between males) alongside with liberals that just wants to cut the taxes (and that will clash with the pro-welfare stance of the party because it's not clear how we are going to pay the increased welfare that is in the platform, expecially for mothers and families, if we cut the taxes). That's not going to end up well, and if meloni won't be able to find some actually competent people we are going to be trashed once again. So this recruiting phase before the next election is the moment where the party's identity will be shaped. As you may have noticed, i'm pretty critical of how the things went so far.

The other problem is that obviusly everyone knows that FdI is the heir of the fascist party, and as Cardini said, "when Meloni will get the power, you can be sure that during the night someone will draw a swastika on the great synagogue of Rome", implying a saboutage. (Yes, i shill for Cardini. He is from my city and from my very same background). It's obviusly good that 1/5 of the country is willing to vote for the party which is largely perceived as the fascist party, but our constitution states that we are antifascist as a country. Since Meloni isn't going to build a dictatoriship, she should address this asap, clarifying that FdI is a national conservatives party and hopefully explaining the differences between us and the american conservatism. Otherwise we won't hold power for much long. And i'm extremly concerned about this, because since 2015 we saw the votes moving as much on the right as possible. In 2015 FdI was maybe 1%, now it's going to be 23%. But now we don't have any more parties on the right, except the ones that are explicitely fascists, and by fascist i mean that they openly call themselves fascist, they do the roman salute, they are packed with icons of Mussolini and they use the good old empirial eagle. Those parties were left free to exists because crancking on them would be counterproductive, but the fascist party is formally outlawed, so they can't simply been elected. I fear that if we can't put up something that resemble a real government, the people will look left once more.

and as a final note, no, M5S is not a right wing party at all.