{"id":11585,"date":"2022-10-22T14:58:22","date_gmt":"2022-10-22T14:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=11585"},"modified":"2022-10-22T14:58:22","modified_gmt":"2022-10-22T14:58:22","slug":"meloni-takes-charge-as-pm-as-italy-swings-to-the-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/meloni-takes-charge-as-pm-as-italy-swings-to-the-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Meloni takes charge as PM as Italy swings to the right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meloni takes charge as PM as Italy swings to the right. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GiorgiaMeloni\">Giorgia Meloni<\/a> was on Friday named as Italy&#8217;s first woman prime minister and chose her cabinet team, setting her seal on the country&#8217;s most right-wing government since World War Two.<\/p>\n<p>Meloni, head of the nationalist Brothers of Italy, swept to victory in an election last month in alliance with Silvio Berlusconi&#8217;s Forza Italia and Matteo Salvini&#8217;s League.<\/p>\n<p>Her government \u2014 Italy&#8217;s 68th since 1946 \u2014 will replace a national unity administration led by former European Central Bank head Mario Draghi, who attended a European Union summit in Brussels on Friday in one of his last acts as prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>She faces daunting challenges, notably a looming recession, rising energy bills and how to present a united front over the Ukraine war.<\/p>\n<p>Meloni, 45, named Giancarlo Giorgetti of the League party as her economy minister and said the foreign ministry will go to Antonio Tajani from Forza Italia.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"it\" dir=\"ltr\">Ho accettato, dal Presidente della Repubblica Sergio Mattarella, l\u2019incarico per formare il nuovo Governo e ho presentato la lista dei Ministri. <\/p>\n<p>Un Esecutivo di alto profilo che lavorer\u00e0 spedito per rispondere alle urgenze della Nazione e dei cittadini. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/O3pnPKTMtq\">pic.twitter.com\/O3pnPKTMtq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Giorgia Meloni (@GiorgiaMeloni) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GiorgiaMeloni\/status\/1583536878212747264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 21, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Giorgia Meloni has accepted the mandate and has presented her list of ministers,&#8221; presidential official Ugo Zampetti told reporters after she held talks with President Sergio Mattarella in his Quirinale palace in Rome.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"it\" dir=\"ltr\">Il mio intervento al Quirinale <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/47smbMT5zs\">pic.twitter.com\/47smbMT5zs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Giorgia Meloni (@GiorgiaMeloni) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GiorgiaMeloni\/status\/1583490395870068736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 21, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The list of ministers read out by Meloni, who has transformed the fortunes of the Brothers of Italy but has only limited ministerial experience, included just six other women.<\/p>\n<p>In all, nine ministries were handed out to Brothers of Italy politicians and five each to the League and Forza Italia, with technocrats given a further five cabinet posts.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/russia-pounds-dozens-of-ukraine-towns-warns-of-escalation.html\">Russia pounds dozens of Ukraine towns, warns of escalation<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The new government will be formally sworn in on Saturday morning, after which it will face confidence votes in both houses of parliament next week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tensions surface<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Although the process of putting together a new administration has been rapid by Italian standards, it has exposed tensions in the coalition, with Berlusconi repeatedly appearing to try to undermine Meloni&#8217;s authority.<\/p>\n<p>Berlusconi, who is 86, and sits in the Senate, as expected did not take a cabinet role.<\/p>\n<p>League leader Salvini, whose authority was dented by his party&#8217;s relatively poor showing in the election, will be infrastructure minister.<\/p>\n<p>Among other top cabinet posts, the interior ministry went to Matteo Piantedosi, a career civil servant with no party affiliation, and the defence ministry to Guido Crosetto, one of the founders of Brothers of Italy.<\/p>\n<p>Meloni stressed this week that her administration would be firmly pro-NATO and pro-European. &#8220;Anyone who does not agree with this cornerstone cannot be part of the government,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>She asserted her authority after Berlusconi told Forza Italia lawmakers that he blamed Ukraine for the war there and said he had exchanged gifts and &#8220;sweet letters&#8221; with Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meloni takes charge as PM as Italy swings to the right. Giorgia Meloni was on Friday named as Italy&#8217;s first woman prime minister and chose her cabinet team, setting her seal on the country&#8217;s most right-wing government since World War Two. Meloni, head of the nationalist Brothers of Italy, swept to victory in an election [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":11588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[7273,6161,357],"class_list":["post-11585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-world","tag-brussels","tag-european-central-bank","tag-italy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}