Giorgia Meloni is an Italian journalist and politician who leads the "Brothers of Italy" party. She was a member of the Chamber of Deputies in 2006, and was the youngest minister in the history of the Italian Republic when she was appointed on May 8, 2008 as Minister of Youth in Silvio Berlusconi's fourth government (2008-2011).

Meloni also became the first woman candidate for prime minister in Italy after her "Brothers of Italy" party won the results of the general elections held on Sunday 25 September 2022, when she is expected to unite with "Forza Italia" leader Silvio Berlusconi and "League" leader Matteo Salvini. to form a new government.

Birth and upbringing

Georgia Meloni was born on January 15, 1977, to a left-wing father from the island of Sardinia and a right-wing mother from the island of Sicily in the Garbatella district of the Italian capital, Rome, where the working class lives and the majority embraces the leftist ideology that controlled schools and universities at that time, and was merely belonging to the The oath is a revolutionary act.

Meloni was only one year old when her father Francesco left his family and moved to the Canary Islands, prompting speculation that Georgia's political path was partly motivated by a desire to avenge her absent father.

Study and scientific training

After completing her primary and middle studies, Meloni obtained a high school diploma in languages ​​from the Amerigo Vespucci Institute in Rome, but it turned out that the school was not a high school for foreign languages, and therefore it was not qualified to issue a diploma in languages, but was a school A technical high school specializing in the tourism industry, which sparked a debate over whether Meloni lied about her degree.

In 1996, Meloni earned a diploma in journalism from the same institute, and Meloni did not complete her education, so she does not have a college degree.

maternity

Meloni is an unmarried mother and has a daughter, Jennifera, born out of wedlock, who was born on September 16, 2016.

Functions and Responsibilities

After graduating from school, Meloni decided to work and took on various jobs, such as a vegetable seller in a popular market, a babysitter and a bartender at the Piper Club, one of the most famous nightclubs in Rome.

political experience

In July 1992, when Meloni was a 15-year-old schoolgirl, she joined the Youth Front, a far-right student movement in Rome that Meloni later headed in 2004.

She also became a member of the youth section of the Italian Social Movement (MSI), which represented neo-fascism, and was called by the Italian Socialist Movement founded by Benito Mussolini.

In 1998, she was elected a member of the Provincial Council of Rome, a position she held until 2002.

In 2006, Meloni became the youngest ever MP and deputy speaker of Parliament, and in the same year she began working as a journalist.

Meloni is also the youngest minister in the history of the Italian Republic when she was appointed on May 8, 2008 as Minister of Youth in Silvio Berlusconi's fourth government, which lasted until November 16, 2011.

In 2012, Meloni resigned from Angelino Alfano's Democratic Labor Party, and co-founded the Brothers of Italy (FDI) party, which ran in the 2013 general elections, receiving only 2% of the vote with a total of 9 parliamentary seats.

In 2014, Meloni became the party's president and ran in the European Parliament elections but was unsuccessful, and she also failed to win the mayor of Rome in the 2016 elections.

On 2-3 December 2017, the Brothers of Italy congress re-elected Meloni as the party's chairwoman, and in 2018, the party won only 4% of the vote in the legislative elections.

Before the early general elections in 2022, it was agreed between the center-right coalition that the leader of the party that received the most votes would be presented as a candidate for prime minister, a position to which Meloni is strongly approaching.

intellectual orientation

At the beginning of her political career, Meloni praised the ideas of the late leader Benito Mussolini, whom his opponents describe as a "fascist and dictator", but later changed her position and condemned his actions.

Meloni holds anti-immigrant ideas and has called for a naval blockade of Africa's Mediterranean coast to prevent migrants from reaching Italy.

Meloni said - in a press statement - that she shared the experiences and values ​​of the Conservative Party in the United Kingdom, Likud in Israel, and the Republican Party in the United States.

On January 30, 2016, on the occasion of Family Day, Meloni participated in a demonstration against what is known as “gay rights”, and declared that she was against adopting what is termed as “LGBT people”.

literature

In 2021, Meloni published her book "I am Georgia, my roots, my thoughts", in which she praised Italian leaders, such as Betino Craxi and Silvio Berlusconi, for standing up to the United States from her point of view.