Giorgia Meloni

Giorgia Meloni (born 15 January 1977) is an Italian politician and journalist who is the Prime Minister of Italy since 2022. She has also been the president of Fratelli d'Italia since 2014.^[1]

Giorgia Meloni
Official portrait, 2023
Prime Minister of Italy
Incumbent
Assumed office 22 October 2022
President	Sergio Mattarella
Deputy	Antonio Tajani Matteo Salvini
Preceded by	Mario Draghi
President of Brothers of Italy
Incumbent
Assumed office 8 March 2014
Preceded by	Ignazio La Russa
President of the European Conservatives and Reformists Party
Incumbent
Assumed office 29 September 2020
Preceded by	Jan Zahradil
Minister of Youth
In office 8 May 2008 – 16 November 2011
Prime Minister	Silvio Berlusconi
Preceded by	Giovanna Melandri
Succeeded by	Andrea Riccardi
Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies
In office 4 May 2006 – 28 April 2008
President	Fausto Bertinotti
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
Incumbent
Assumed office 28 April 2006
Constituency	Lazio 1 (2006–2008) Lazio 2 (2008–2013) Lombardy 3 (2013–2018) Latina (2018–2022) L'Aquila (since 2022)
Personal details
Born	(1977-01-15) 15 January 1977 (age 48) Rome, Italy
Political party	FdI (since 2012)
Other political affiliations	MSI (1992–1995) AN (1995–2009) PdL (2009–2012)
Domestic partner	Andrea Giambruno
Children	1
Signature
Website	giorgiameloni.it

Meloni was Minister of Youth from 2008 to 2011.^[2] She was also a member of the Chamber of Deputies since 2006.

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.^[3]

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,^[4] 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.^[5][6]