The far-Right former general raiding Meloni’s coalition

In the classic sixties action film The Dirty Dozen, Lee Marvin plays an American major who recruits 12 military convicts to undertake a secret commando mission behind enemy lines. Half a century on, in the rough-and-tumble world of Italian politics, a real-life special forces commander is seeking his own “dirty dozen” as he mounts a challenge to the conservative coalition led by Giorgia Meloni.