The far-right leader has been sworn in as prime minister of Italy and says she will serve her country “with pride and responsibility”
Italy already has a new government. Giorgia Meloni, winner of the elections held just under a month ago to head the conservative bloc, was sworn in as Prime Minister of Italy, the country’s first woman, this Saturday in a solemn ceremony held at the Quirinal Palace. in Rome, where she was joined by her partner, Andrea Giambruno, and Ginevra, their 6-year-old daughter. After the leader of the far-right Fratelli d’Italia (FdI, Brothers of Italy) party was sworn in, it was the turn of the rest of the members of her cabinet, made up of 24 ministers, including the two deputy prime ministers: Antonio Tajani, former President of the European Parliament and responsible for the Foreign Affairs portfolio, and Matteo Salvini, Leader of the League, at the head of the Ministry of Infrastructure. As a sign of his eagerness to make headlines, which can give Meloni a headache on more than one occasion, Salvini hastened to announce his plans for the pharaonic project to unite the island of Sicily with the rest of Italy through a to dust off the bridge.
Less ambitious than her partner was the new head of the Italian Executive: she noted after the oath that she would start working “immediately” to serve Italy “with pride and responsibility”. In addition to skyrocketing inflation and the energy crisis, the first big ‘hot potato’ for Meloni will be the preparation of next year’s budgets. You have a few weeks to do this, as you have to submit them to the authorities of the European Union before the end of the year. It will benefit, yes, from a comfortable transition with the previous Executive, led by Mario Draghi, whose team is fully available to work with the new government.
Meloni and Draghi will coincide this Sunday at Chigi Palace, the seat of the head of government, in the traditional ceremony where the outgoing ‘Prime Minister’ hands over to his successor the bell used to start the Council of Ministers. The first formal meeting of Meloni’s cabinet will then begin, while it will be next week when the necessary inauguration vote is tabled in parliament. There he will explain what the political priorities of his agenda will be to develop over the five years of the legislature, as long as he manages to get it along.
Tajani’s first gesture after his oath as head of Italian diplomacy is significant: he announced that he would call his Ukrainian counterpart to ensure that Rome will maintain its support for Kiev despite the military aggression ordered by Moscow. It was quite a statement of intent from Forza Italia’s “number two” after his party’s leader, Silvio Berlusconi, has been embroiled in bitter controversy all week for blaming Ukraine for the war and his friend, Russian leader Vladimir. Putin, defended. . Ukrainian President Volódimir Zelensky, who had already invited Meloni to visit Ukraine a few days after the elections, hastened to congratulate the new government and expressed his desire to “maintain a fruitful cooperation to ensure peace and prosperity”.
US President Joe Biden also referred to the war in this Eastern European country in his message to Meloni. “I am impatient to continue working to increase our support for Ukraine, hold Russia accountable for its responsibilities, ensure respect for human rights and democratic values, and build sustainable economic growth,” Biden said in a note issued by the White House. House was published.
Source: La Verdad
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