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Giorgia Meloni (Italian: [ˈdʒordʒa meˈloːni]; born 15 January 1977) is an Italian politician who has been serving as the prime minister of Italy since October 2022, the first woman to hold this position.
The prime minister's bloc, including her Brothers of Italy party, the League and Forza Italia, won all four regional elections held in 2023 and still control 14 of Italy's 20 regions.
In the 2018 Italian general election, held on 4 March, no political group or party won an outright majority, resulting in a hung parliament. [30] [31] The centre-right coalition, in which Matteo Salvini's League emerged as the main political force, won a plurality of seats in the Chamber of Deputies and in the Senate, while the anti-establishment Five Star Movement (M5S) led by Luigi Di Maio ...
With almost all ballots counted, Brothers of Italy won 28.8%of the vote, more than four times what it took in the last European Union election in 2019, and exceeding the 26% it secured in the 2022 ...
Giorgia Meloni looks set to become Italy's first woman prime minister at the head of its most right-wing government since World War Two. ... a conservative alliance to triumph at Sunday's election ...
He is the first politician with a neo-fascist background and to come from a post-fascist party to hold the position, which is the second highest-ranking office of the Italian Republic. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ] He was proclaimed president by Liliana Segre , a senator for life and Holocaust survivor , who presided the first meeting of the Senate due ...
“Secondly, with the growth of far-right parties, Meloni is in a pivotal position between the far right and the European People’s Party,” he added. Based on the latest projections, Meloni’s party will get from 23 to 25 seats in the European Parliament, up from six after the 2019 elections, when it was only a minor opposition party.
A party with neo-fascist roots has won the most votes in Italy's national election, setting the stage Monday for talks to create of the country's first far-right-led government since World War II ...