Giorgia Meloni

She has led Brothers of Italy, a party she co-founded, since 2014. She is named as a candidate to remain Prime Minister in the next general election, due in 2027.

Career

Meloni joined the Youth Front of the Italian Social Movement in 1992 and became national leader of Student Action in 1996. She was a provincial councillor of Rome from 1998 to 2002, entered the Chamber of Deputies in 2006, and was Minister for Youth Policies under Silvio Berlusconi from 2008 to 2011. In 2012 she co-founded Brothers of Italy and has led it since 2014. She presided over the European Conservatives and Reformists party from 2020 to 2025. She has been Prime Minister since October 2022.

Positions

Wikipedia describes Meloni as conservative and right-wing populist; she calls her views Eurorealist, and she supports NATO. She opposes euthanasia, same-sex marriage and same-sex parenting. Her government tightened immigration enforcement, removed Covid-19 vaccination certificate requirements, banned cultivated meat in 2023 and passed a differentiated autonomy law for regions. It has also proposed direct election of the prime minister and a justice reform; critics, including Amnesty International, have objected to its immigration and security policies. In March 2026 voters rejected the justice reform in a referendum.

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