Her mother took care of her and her sister after their father left

Politics is a family affair for Italian right-wing leader Giorgia Meloni

  • Georgia with her sister Ariana.

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  • Giorgia Meloni with her mother.

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  • Meloni grew up in a conservative family.

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Right-winger Giorgia Meloni, 45, will be Italy's first woman prime minister, after winning Sunday's general election.

The Christian Mother, as she describes herself, put the defense of traditional and family values ​​at the center of her campaign;

Her family is also the key to her success and support center.

Meloni is very close to her older sister Ariana, who, like her, was involved in politics from a young age, whom Meloni called "the most important person in my life", before the birth of her daughter, Jennifera, in 2016.

Ariana is also a member of the Brotherhood of Italy, and is married to Francesco Lollobrigida, head of the party's parliamentary bloc in the Chamber of Deputies, and is a candidate for a ministerial position in the Meloni-led government.

Ariana, after the last election, described her sister, Georgia, as "very brave, very determined" and "obsessed with perfection".

She rejected the claim that Meloni, who campaigned on the slogan "God, country and family", would change Italy's abortion laws, saying "she is on the side of women and their acquired rights."

The sisters grew up in a working-class neighborhood in Rome and were cared for by their mother, Anna Parator, who also had a special interest in politics.

In an interview with French television in 1996, activist Meloni, then a teenager, praised the dictator Benito Mussolini;

Paratur has been presenting her as a long-time activist for the post-fascist right.

Currently, her mother, a romantic novelist and supporter of her daughter's career, rejects what she calls "nonsense" about Meloni's radical past.

Bharatour added that she would be happy to see an end to "citizen's income", an anti-poverty measure criticized for encouraging unemployment, which Meloni has pledged to abolish.

"I am happy with her success, but I don't know if I will wish her all this," the mother adds, noting the challenges that await her.

Baratore raised her two daughters alone, after their father left the family, when Meloni was very young, and the family moved to the Spanish Canary Islands.

Meloni, in her autobiography, describes how her mother nearly miscarried while she was pregnant with her, only to change her mind at the last minute.

Meloni, too, wrote of her father's absence, that it left "a wound perhaps deeper than the father who died;

Because when he leaves, you are forced to deal with his ghost.”

Meloni carries her own experience of motherhood as part of her allure.

"I am Georgia, I am a woman, I am a mother, I am Italian, I am Christian," she declared in a speech in 2019, which was widely circulated.

The day after the last vote, she posted on Instagram a note from her six-year-old daughter, Jennifera, saying: “Dear Mum, I'm so glad you won.

I love you so much!".

Ginevra's father is television journalist Andrea Giamprono, whom Meloni first met while giving an interview.

"Andrea is smart, confident, and has very good job capabilities," she says of her husband. "This makes him one of the few people in the world who doesn't mind having a successful woman in their life."

In an interview with French television, in 1996, activist Meloni, then a teenager, praised the dictator Benito Mussolini;

The debate was presented as a long-time activist for the post-fascist right.

Ariana is a member of the Brotherhood of Italy, and is married to Francesco Lollobrigida, head of the party's parliamentary bloc in the Chamber of Deputies.

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