The 45-year-old Giorgia Meloni was sworn in as Italy’s first female prime minister since the end of World War II.
Key points
- Meloni’s government replaces the one led by Mario Draghi, a former European Central Bank chief. He was appointed in 2021 to lead a pandemic national unity coalition.
- Giorgia Meloni’s political party Brothers of Italy, emerged victorious in recent elections winning more than 25 percent of the vote in snap elections in late September 2022.
- Meloni recited the oath of office before President Sergio Mattarella, who formally asked her to form a government a day earlier.
- Fratelli d’Italia or Brothers of Italy was co-founded by Giorgia Meloniin 2012. It will rule in coalition with the right-wing Lega or League of Matteo Salvini and the conservative Forza Italia party headed by octogenarian mainstay Silvio Berlusconi.
