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Giorgia Meloni

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Giorgia Meloni
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Official portrait, 2024
Prime Minister of Italy
Assumed office
22 October 2022
PresidentSergio Mattarella
DeputyAntonio Tajani
Matteo Salvini
Preceded byMario Draghi
President of Brothers of Italy
Assumed office
8 March 2014
Preceded byIgnazio La Russa
President of the European Conservatives and Reformists Party
In office
29 September 2020 – 14 January 2025
Preceded byJan Zahradil
Minister of Youth
In office
8 May 2008 – 16 November 2011
Prime MinisterSilvio Berlusconi
Preceded byGiovanna Melandri
Succeeded byAndrea Riccardi
Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
4 May 2006 – 28 April 2008
PresidentFausto Bertinotti
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
Assumed office
28 April 2006
Constituency
Personal details
Born (1977-01-15) 15 January 1977 (age 49)
Rome, Italy
Political partyFdI (since 2012)
Other political
affiliations
  • MSI (1992–1995)
  • AN (1995–2009)
  • PdL (2009–2012)
Domestic partnerAndrea Giambruno
Children1
SignatureImage
Websitegiorgiameloni.it

Giorgia Meloni (born 15 January 1977) is an Italian politician and journalist who has been the Prime Minister of Italy since 2022. She has also been the president of Fratelli d'Italia since 2014.[1] Meloni was Minister of Youth from 2008 to 2011.[2] She was also a member of the Chamber of Deputies since 2006.

During her time as prime minister, Meloni has been a critic of same-sex marriages and of globalism. While she is a supporter of NATO, she has been critical of the European Union. In 2024, Forbes ranked Meloni as the third-most-powerful woman in the world and she was listed amongst the most influential people in the world by Time magazine, while Politico ranked her as the most powerful person in Europe in 2025.

Early life

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Giorgia Meloni was born on 15 January 1977 in Rome, Italy.[3] Her father, Francesco Meloni, was the son of Nino Meloni, a radio director from Sardinia.[4] Meloni's mother, Anna Paratore, is from Sicily.[5][6][7] Her father left the family in 1978 when she was one year old, moving to the Canary Islands and remarrying. Meloni has four half-siblings from her father's second marriage.[8] Seventeen years later, in 1995, he was convicted of drug trafficking and sentenced to nine years in a Spanish prison. He last contacted Meloni in 2006, when she became the vice-president of the Chamber of Deputies.[9][10]

In 1992, at 15 years of age, Meloni joined the Youth Front, the youth wing of the Italian Social Movement (MSI), a neo-fascist political party that dissolved in 1995.[11] In 1996, she became the national leader of Student Action, the student movement of the post-fascist National Alliance (AN).[12]

Prime minister

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In a record-low voter turnout election, exit polls projected that the centre-right coalition would win a majority of seats in the 2022 Italian general election. Meloni was crowned the winner of the election with her party, FdI, receiving a plurality of seats, and per agreement with the centre-right coalition, the largest party in the coalition would nominate the next prime minister which made her the frontrunner.

On 21 October 2022, President Sergio Mattarella designated her as the next Prime Minister of Italy, making her the first woman to hold this office.[13]

After she became prime minister, people have debated how right-wing a Meloni-led government would be. Many commentators have described it as Italy's first far-right-led government since World War II,[14] and Meloni as the first far-right leader since Benito Mussolini, and some academics also described it as the most right-wing government since 1945.[15][16]

In April 2025, after U.S. President Donald Trump announced he would put tarrifs on most countries in the European Union, Meloni had a successful meeting with Trump.[17][18]

On 27 August 2025, Meloni criticised Israel's military actions in Gaza and the killing of five journalists in an airstrike on Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis as "unjustifiable".[19]

In March 2026, Meloni's government held a constitutional referendum where voters were asked whether they approved a constitutional law. Meloni's government supported and campaigned in favour of its passing. However, the victory of the "No" side was widely seen as a blow to her government and a boost to opposition parties ahead of the 2027 general election.[20]

Personal life

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In 2015, Meloni began a relationship with Andrea Giambruno, a journalist working for Mediaset TV channels.[21] The couple have a daughter, Ginevra, born in September 2016.[22][23] On 20 October 2023, she announced her split with Giambruno.[24][25][26]

Meloni is a Catholic.[3][27][28] Meloni also speaks English, Spanish, and French.[29]

Meloni is a fan of fantasy, mainly J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.[30][31] She named her political conference Atreyu, after the hero of the novel The Neverending Story (1979).[32]

References

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  1. ↑ "Giorgia Meloni eletta presidente di Fratelli d'Italia". Sky TG 24. 2014-03-08.[permanent dead link]
  2. ↑ "Giorgia Meloni". Il Sole 24 Ore.
  3. 1 2 Pietromarchi, Virginia (19 September 2022). "Who is Italy's leadership hopeful Giorgia Meloni?". Al Jazeera. Archived from the original on 20 September 2022. Retrieved 21 September 2022.
  4. ↑ "Giorgia Meloni, il teatro nel sangue. Ecco chi erano i nonni della premier". la Repubblica. 2 December 2022. Archived from the original on 17 May 2023. Retrieved 20 May 2023.
  5. ↑ "Meloni's mother: "I, a writer of romance novels for my daughters"". 21 October 2022. Archived from the original on 6 May 2023. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
  6. ↑ "How Giorgia Meloni thinks". 23 September 2022. Archived from the original on 13 June 2023. Retrieved 10 May 2023.
  7. ↑ "How 'fascist' is the party of Giorgia Meloni, Italy's PM frontrunner?". Archived from the original on 10 May 2023. Retrieved 10 May 2023.
  8. ↑ Dell'Arti, Giorgio; Spada, Alberto (27 May 2014). "Giorgia Meloni". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). Archived from the original on 5 November 2014. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
  9. ↑ "Giorgia Meloni, il racconto della stampa spagnola sul padre (che la abbandonò da piccola): 'Fu condannato per traffico di droga'" [Giorgia Meloni, from the Spanish press about her father (who abandoned her as a child): 'He was convicted of drug trafficking']. Il Fatto Quotidiano (in Italian). 28 September 2022. Archived from the original on 1 October 2022. Retrieved 1 October 2022.
  10. ↑ Pistilli, Clemente (29 September 2022). "Il padre di Giorgia Meloni fu condannato per narcotraffico, il racconto della stampa spagnola" [Giorgia Meloni's father was convicted of drug trafficking, the story from the Spanish press]. La Repubblica (in Italian). Archived from the original on 1 October 2022. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
  11. ↑ Fontana, Simone (28 July 2022). "Da dove arriva Giorgia Meloni, l'ultima fiamma della destra" [Where does Giorgia Meloni, the last flame of the right, come from]. laRegione Ticino (in Italian). Archived from the original on 7 August 2022. Retrieved 21 September 2022.
  12. ↑ "'Woman, mother, Christian' guides Italian far-right to brink of power". Euractiv. 10 August 2022. Archived from the original on 22 August 2022. Retrieved 21 September 2022.
  13. ↑ "Far-right leader Giorgia Meloni named as Italy's first female prime minister". CNN. 22 October 2022.
  14. ↑ Barry, Colleen; Cook, Lorne (26 September 2022). "Italy's EU partners vigilant as far right set to take power". AP News. Associated Press. Archived from the original on 26 September 2022. Retrieved 27 September 2022.
  15. ↑ Leali, Giorgio; Roberts, Hannah (25 September 2022). "Italy on track to elect most right-wing government since Mussolini". Politico. Archived from the original on 26 September 2022. Retrieved 27 September 2022.
  16. ↑ Braithwaite, Sharon; DiDonato, Valentina; Fox, Kara; Mortensen, Antonia; Nadeau, Barbie Latza; Ruotolo, Nicola (26 September 2022). "Giorgia Meloni claims victory to become Italy's most far-right prime minister since Mussolini". CNN. Archived from the original on 26 September 2022. Retrieved 26 September 2022.
  17. ↑ Bubola, Emma (18 April 2025). "Meloni and Trump: Oval Office Meeting Cements Special Rapport". The New York Times.
  18. ↑ "The Trump whisperer': Papers react to Trump's meeting with Meloni". France 24. 18 April 2025.
  19. ↑ Berman, Lazar (27 August 2025). "Meloni: War in Gaza 'has gone beyond the principle of proportionality'". The Times of Israel.
  20. ↑ https://www.politico.eu/article/italy-judicial-reform-referendum-defeat-giorgia-meloni/
  21. ↑ Kington, Tom; Willan, Philip (20 October 2023). "Giorgia Meloni separates from partner after threesome comment". The Times. Archived from the original on 20 October 2023.
  22. ↑ "Ginevra, 'sorellina d'Italia': è nata la bambina di Giorgia Meloni" [Geneva, 'little sister of Italy': Giorgia Meloni's baby girl was born]. Corriere della Sera (in Italian). 16 September 2016. Archived from the original on 25 March 2020. Retrieved 14 August 2022.
  23. ↑ "A destra vogliono una famiglia tradizionale. Ma non per loro" [On the right they want a traditional family. But not for them]. La Repubblica (in Italian). 30 August 2022. Archived from the original on 5 September 2022. Retrieved 5 September 2022.
  24. ↑ Italian PM Giorgia Meloni splits from partner after his sexist comments. The Guardian
  25. ↑ I fuorionda di Giambruno: frasi e battute sessiste. Quotidiano Nazionale
  26. ↑ Meloni: "La mia relazione con Andrea Giambruno finisce qui". la Repubblica
  27. ↑ "'Woman, mother, Christian' guides Italian far-right to brink of power". Euractiv. Associated Press. 10 August 2022. Archived from the original on 22 August 2022. Retrieved 20 September 2022.
  28. ↑ "Meloni, Salvini, Berlusconi: The key figures in Italy's likely new government". The Local. 26 September 2022. Archived from the original on 27 September 2022. Retrieved 20 September 2022.
  29. ↑ Kington, Tom (21 September 2022). "My win can help Spanish right triumph, says Giorgia Meloni". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Archived from the original on 30 September 2022. Retrieved 3 November 2022.
  30. ↑ Seibt, Sebastian. "Inspired by Tolkien, Meloni is on a quest for Italy's 'ring of power'". France 24. Agence France-Presse. Archived from the original on 26 September 2022. Retrieved 27 September 2022. The [Hobbit] camps ended in 1981, when Meloni was just 4 years old. Just over a decade later, however, she attended a revival of the festivals, dubbed "Hobbit 93", in Rome. There she sang along with the far-right band Compagnia dell'Anello (Fellowship of the Ring), whose song "Tomorrow Belongs to Us" was an anthem of MSI's youth wing.
  31. ↑ Guerrin, Michel (30 September 2022). "'Pour Giorgia Meloni, 'Le Seigneur des anneaux' n'est pas juste un roman adoré mais un programme'" [For Giorgia Meloni, 'The Lord of the Rings' is not just a beloved novel but a programme]. Le Monde (in French). Archived from the original on 30 September 2022. Retrieved 30 September 2022.
  32. ↑ Horowitz, Jason (21 September 2022). "Hobbits and the Hard Right: How Fantasy Inspires Italy's Potential New Leader". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 22 September 2022. Retrieved 22 September 2022.

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