What will Giorgia Meloni as Prime Minister do?
Characteristics and strengths of the leader of the Brothers of Italy, Giorgia Meloni. The article by Alessandra Servidori, professor of labor policies, member of the Steering Council for programmatic activity in the field of economic policy coordination at the Presidency of the Council
And we got there and we must give Cesara what is Cesara's.
Giorgia Meloni will become the prime minister of Italy. The president of the Fratelli d'Italia (FdI) party, the first woman in this position and the second youngest head of the Italian government ever.
Meloni looks less than her 45 years old and has undoubtedly been good at bringing her party to this goal. Small in stature, the photograph that portrays her suspended in the arms of Guido Crosetto, a likeable Piedmontese businessman who weighs three times her weight, with whom she founded the party in 2012, has often also been used to ridicule her.
Meloni, however, is anything but a doll and in the rallies "I am Giorgia, I am a woman, I am a mother, I am Christian!" was appreciated as an effective business card, repeated in every rally and hammered in rap time in the clip "Io sono Giorgia – Remix", displayed 13 million times – and it is the title of his autobiography, with full-cover portrait, so as in the Brothers of Italy program.
Raised in Garbatella, her common spirit and her strong Roman accent make her perceive as a genuine novelty, different from "politicians attached to power". In this way she manages to make people forget that for about ten years she supported the governments of the Republic, those of Silvio Berlusconi, who made her minister of youth at the age of 31 and vice president of the Chamber.
In public debates Meloni is pugnacious, speaks decisively, prepared and credible. So, today has a chance. His words as a nation, patriots, defense of the homeland and national borders (from irregular migrants), Judeo-Christian tradition, Italian pride. Then there is the goal of making Italy a presidential republic.
Finally, there are some of the electoral promises such as the abolition of the crime of torture ("prevents agents from doing their jobs"), "chemical castration" (for those responsible for certain violence), fight against "LGBT lobbies", obtaining more easy to carry arms, the principle that "defense is always legitimate", "naval blockade in front of Libya" against irregular immigrants, seizure and sinking of the ships that transport them, repression of NGOs that rescue the shipwrecked and seizure of their ships , abolition of citizenship income (a law of the 5 Star Movement), reduction of taxes for the richest, "fiscal peace", that is, amnesty of many tax evasions.
Addressing the energy crisis with a cap on the cost of gas and separating the costs of the electricity item from the gas item. The position on the war in Ukraine is blurred and the closeness to the Orbán delusion is instead evident.
Finally, on the posters of his coalition it is written: “Flat tax at 15%”. In reality, the 15% rate of income tax would only apply to the portion of income higher than that of recent years.
To Senator Liliana Segre, a victim of fascist atrocities, who asked her to remove the flame, Meloni replied: “There is no reason to remove the flame from the Brothers of Italy symbol. It represents continuity with the history of a republican and democratic right ”.
In the confrontation with Letta she was talkative and almost ironic unlike the leftist candidates who, unfortunately often happens, have the presumption of being the elite of politics and print a smile of systematic irreverent presumption towards the interlocutor or interlocutor. Bad habit.
Meloni personalizes whether or not she likes politics for women, even if at her side there are very few sisters but many brothers. Before Meloni, all of its presidents were male. The vast majority of leaders, adherents, and voters are male. Yet the party leaders behind Meloni, elderly right-handed people, managed to make people forget the masculinity of the party by completely withdrawing from the limelight, on which they left, alone, a talented, good-looking and pugnacious woman.
No election campaign in Italy has ever been so personalized as that for Meloni. Meloni's success is based very, very much on images rather than words. The media are inundated with the photographs that portray her.
The manipulation of words. "Center-right" is the name used by the media and by almost all politicians for the coalition between the Brothers of Italy (Meloni, was 24% of voting intentions now exceeded), Lega (Salvini 10%), Forza Italia ( Berlusconi, 7%).
In European comparison, however, the Brothers of Italy and the Lega are more to the right than the far right of Europe, for example the Rassemblement National in France. For this reason their denomination is not adequate, it should be far right but Meloni defines himself as the head of the "center-right", but he calls the center-left with haughtiness "left".
The "center-right" would have twenty points ahead of the "center-left" today, the results say, albeit still partial. In reality, as has been the case for decades, the right and the left both account for 40%. The artifice of the 20% difference results from considering only the coalition of the Democratic Party with some small parties (25%) as "center-left". Thus, however, the other opponents of the right are obscured: the 5 Star Movement (15%) and other anti-fascist parties (8%).
Consequently, even television appearances have often been unbalanced in favor of the Brothers of Italy. We hope that Meloni's victory will not mean room for pennants or even what most commentators predict a loss of "market confidence" in Italy. We are sure that employers' organizations will work together to give energy to productivity and work.
And Europe too must recognize it because the vote of a democratic people is shared in the interest of the whole European community.
But one thing is certain. Giorgia Meloni shuffled the cards in Italian politics. It was a well-organized surprise and it could surprise us again, this time on his own terms, at the helm of Italy.
A viper from her party (Meloni is not the only woman) said that Meloni is often wrong, and instead the lift driven by Meloni has broken through the famous "glass roof" and has already taken her to the penultimate floor. Now he promises he will do the same with the Italian lift.
We will see and in any case the priorities are very clear in order not to face the decline and who knows how to face and does not stay as Mario Draghi clearly said.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/che-cosa-fara-giorgia-meloni-presidente-del-consiglio/ on Mon, 26 Sep 2022 11:18:18 +0000.