Giorgia Meloni: Italy’s Giorgia Meloni on Friday formed the country’s new ruling coalition. With Giorgia Meloni at helm, Italy got its first far right government since the end of World War II. She is also the first woman to become the prime minister of Italy.
A presidential palace official announced that Meloni and her Cabinet would be sworn in on Saturday. Meloni’s Brothers of Italy, a party with neo-fascist roots got the maximum votes in Italy’s national election last month. Meloni co-founded the party in December 2012, and it was considered a fringe movement on the right during its first years.
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Mandate sought
A few hours before the new government’s formation was announced, 45 –year old Meloni told mediapersons that she and her allies had unanimously asked President Sergio Mattarella to give her the mandate to govern.
Meloni met with Mattarella along with her two main right-wing allies Matteo Salvini and former Premier Silvio Berlusconi.
Berlusconi and Salvini are longtime admirers of Russian President Vladimir Putin; Meloni staunchly backs Ukraine in its defense against the Russian invasion. Those differences could produce challenges for their governing coalition.
Energy crisis
Italy and much of the rest of Europe are struggling with soaring energy costs and Russia’s war in Ukraine, which could hamper gas supplies this winter and continue increasing household and business power bills.
Italy’s new premier is “a woman that managed to get to the top of a very, very, very male party in a very male dominated country,” said Nathalie Tocci, director of the International Affairs Institute, a Rome-based think tank.
Foreign minister
Meloni chose as foreign minister Antonio Tajani, a top aide to Berlusconi in Forza Italia and a former president of the European Union’s parliament. His pro-EU background could reassure European partners worried about a Meloni government wavering in its international alliances.
On Thursday, Mattarella received opposition leaders, who raised concerns that Meloni, who campaigned with a “God, homeland, family” agenda, would seek to erode abortion rights and roll back rights such as same-sex civil unions.
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