The appointment of experienced and pro-European personalities in key positions (Foreign Affairs, Europe, Economy) marks a form of continuity, while the priority of the new firm will be the economic situation.
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After having offered a clear victory to the right coalition of which she directs the most powerful component, after having tamed her majority despite weeks of tensions, Giorgia Meloni, 45, rose to the head of the Italian government Italian , Friday October 21. She becomes the first woman to occupy this function of the history of the country. Following an interview with the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, who called him in the morning to form her government, the far -right leader delivered the list of her ministers, the fruit of intense negotiations and by conflicting moments with its allies.
His party, Fratelli d’Italia, gone from 4 % of the votes cast in the 2018 to 26 % legislative elections by September 25, comes from the post-fascist movement, in which Giorgia Meloni is committed at the age of 15. While she has built all her political life there by associating her name with a radical commitment on identity themes, she is now seen as a leading prower of a conservative right of government. The composition of the new executive reflects both a desire to maintain balance within the Italian right and the concern to ensure Rome partners a promise of institutional normality, as well as a certain continuity with European and transatlantic commitments Associated with the person of the outgoing Prime Minister, Mario Draghi.
It was in Brussels that the latter began the last day of his mandate. Draghi had taken the head of a government of national technocratic color in February 2021 to respond to the crisis triggered by the Pandemic of Covid-19. Fratelli d’Italia represented her only opposition, until her fall, in July.
Returning from a European council dominated by the energy crisis, the president of the outgoing council will pass the witness on Sunday morning to M me meloni. The new government will have to deal with economic emergencies related to the war in Ukraine as a priority. “Draghi and Meloni had excellent relationships when she was in opposition. They now share the same vision on major international and European questions,” says Senator (Fratelli d’Italia) Giovanbattista Fazzolari, who belongs to the close circle of The new president of the council.
a necessary confidence with Brussels
“The Meloni government is devoid of a powerful technical component but the profiles of ministers appointed to key positions are doomed to reassure the external markets and observers”, notes Lorenzo Condogno, guest professor at the London School of Economics and former Director General of the Italian Treasury. Residing from one executive to another, Giancarlo Giorgetti, Minister of Economic Development under Mr. Draghi, must thus take the post of Minister of Economy and Finance. Experienced policy in the economic field without being a technocrat, it is identified with the proeuropian trend of the League, a coalition partner of Giorgia Meloni with Forza Italia, by Silvio Berlusconi.
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