The Prime Minister, who makes her political return on Thursday, has been able to assert her style, without filter and full of pride, whether on political issues or on her personal life.
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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni holds her back-to-school press conference on Thursday January 4. A conference already postponed several times, the manager having suffered from the flu. Among the topics of the moment, Italy taking over the presidency of the G7, the agreement to send some of the migrants heading towards Italy to Albania and the constitutional reform project wanted by Giorgia Meloni.
In power for almost 15 months, the Meloni style has asserted itself. In September, she was questioned about a little macho phrase from her companion at the time, a television journalist. “I would like to understand your concept of freedom of the pressshe replies. A journalist does not say on television what his wife thinks. I hope anyway. That’s my idea of press freedom.” The trick question turns into a lesson for the press. This is the Meloni style: direct and on hot coals.
A square of faithful
“The” Prime Minister, as she wants to be named, firmly controls her majority: when she presents the budget, her deputies are asked not to table any amendments. She governs even more than her predecessors through decree laws, shortening debates in Parliament. Giorgia Meloni leads Italy with a cadre of faithful, her own sister holds the party. This also says the lack of strong personalities around her.
And when she presents her wishes on December 24, it is with these words: “May it be a Christmas of serenity and pride.” Pride in showing that his right-far right coalition, watched by all of Europe, can last. Stability is also the objective of his contested reform project, which concerns the election of the Prime Minister. Direct election.
