Giorgia Meloni — the New Prime Minister of Italy: “a Woman, a Christian, an Italian”

Abstract

Giorgia Meloni, the leader of the right-wing Brothers of Italy party, who was elected as Prime Minister of Italy in September 2022, has already made history by becoming the first woman in this post and the first representative of a political force in the entire post-war history of the country, which many in Italy call the “heiress of neo-fascism”, who took the highest political position in The Republic. Being in big politics for quite a long time, Giorgia Meloni remained aloof from the highest echelons of power, her party in recent years has been in fierce opposition to the current cabinets, so for the Italian electorate tired of the “traditional” political forces, her figure has become the most preferred against the background of total disappointment with the actions of the country's political leadership. Classic populist political technologies used by the center-right coalition, which included the Brothers of Italy party before the parliamentary elections of 2022 in Italy, they had tremendous success and brought Giorgia Meloni to the prime minister's chair a right-wing politician, a populist who once admired Benito Mussolini.