It took 88 days, but finally the Lega-M5s government led by Giuseppe Conte he managed to see the light. The swearing-in of ministers took place on Friday at 16 pm, there are 18 in all: only 5 women, 13 men. They are joined by the Undersecretary to the Prime Minister, Giancarlo Giorgetti as well as, of course, the Prime Minister. In the government structure, born with the intention of having a political identikit but then, in concrete terms, characterized by numerous technical ministers, 9 are in force in the M5S, 7 in the League.
Many, it was said, the so-called technicians who make up this executive, including the premier. Three in particular have assumed key positions: Giovanni Tria in Economics, Paolo Savona in Community Policies, Enzo Moavero-Milanesi in the Farnesina. Two deputy premiers: Matteo Salvini and Luigi Di Maio. We report below the complete list of members of the new government, the sketch of the most important ministers and, clicking here, the profiles and photos of some other "freshmen" in the most significant dicasteries.
THE MINISTERS OF THE LEGA-M5S GOVERNMENT: HERE IS THE LIST
- Prime Minister – Giuseppe Conte,
- Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Labor - Luigi Di Maio (M5S),
- Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior – Matteo Salvini (Lega),
- Minister of Economy – Giovanni Tria,
- Minister of Community Policies – Paolo Savona,
- Minister of Foreign Affairs - Enzo Moavero Milanesi,
- Minister of Justice – Alfonso Bonafede (M5S)
- Minister of Relations with Parliament and Direct Democracy – Riccardo Fraccaro (M5S),
- Minister of Public Administration – Giulia Bongiorno (Lega),
- Minister of Regional Affairs and Autonomies – Erika Stefani (Lega),
- Minister for the South - Barbara Lezzi (M5S),
- Minister for Disability – Lorenzo Fontana (Lega),
- Minister for the Environment – Sergio Costa (M5S),
- Defense Minister – Elisabetta Trenta (M5S),
- Minister of Agricultural Policies - Gian Marco Centinaio (Lega),
- Minister of Infrastructures - Danilo Toninelli (M5S),
- Minister of Education – Marco Bussetti (Lega),
- Minister of Cultural Heritage and Tourism - Alberto Bonisoli (M5S),
- Minister of Health – Giulia Grillo (M5S),
- Undersecretary Prime Minister - Giancarlo Giorgetti (Lega).
GIOVANNI TRIA, MINISTER OF THE ECONOMY
The most discussed ministry, the one that risked blowing everything up in the end went to Giovanni Tria, dean of the Faculty of Economics at the Roman University of Tor Vergata and president of the National School of Administration.
Tria, 69, an economist with a degree in law, was a professor of Economics, Macroeconomics, History of Economics at the universities of Perugia and La Sapienza in Rome. He also collaborated in the past with Renato Brunetta and participated in the political training school of the Popolo delle Libertà. He has written editorials for Formiche.net and for The paper in which he strongly criticized Germany and its trade surplus.
Su an article published on FIRST online on 6 March 2017, the new head of the Treasury explained his positions on the euro and the European Union: to relaunch them, a vast public investment program must be put on the table, much more ambitious than the so-called "Juncker Plan".
He declares himself in favor of the Flat Tax, while on the basic income he wants to see more clearly before expressing a judgement.
PAOLO SAVONA, MINISTER OF EUROPEAN AFFAIRS
He was for days “the man of contention”. Initially called for the Treasury by Matteo Salvini, after the No of the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, Paolo Savona found his place in Community Affairs. He will still be an influential minister in the balance of the executive. His curriculum is broad and noble and he is also the only one, together with Vincenzo Moavero Milanesi, to have already been minister (of Industry, with the Ciampi government).
Graduated in Economics in 1961, specialized at MIT in Boston, a pupil of Guido Carli, Savona began his career at the Bank of Italy. He was general manager of Confindustria and one of the founders of the Roman university of the Luiss business association. For years he was the representative of Mediobanca's parlor on the boards of directors of the most important Italian companies and banks, thus representing the establishment at the highest levels. Some examples: president of Credito Industriale, of the interbank deposit protection fund, of Gestifondi, of the Impregilo companies, of Gemina, Aeroporti di Roma and of the Venezia Nuova Consortium. Then the "turn" in a Eurosceptic key, his anti-German positions and contrary to the Maastricht treaties, in 2015 he published a "Practical guide to leaving the Euro" on the "Economic Scenarios" website. It should be remembered that he had previously been coordinator of the Technical Committee for the Lisbon Strategy during the Berlusconi government.
ENZO MOAVERO MILANESI, FOREIGN MINISTER
Lawyer, law expert, pro-European, professor of European Union law at the Luiss University in Rome. His role is a counterweight to the anti-European tendencies present in the executive. Moavero Milanesi was minister for European affairs in the Monti and Letta governments. With Monti and Grilli he vetoed Angela Merkel who opposed the anti-spread shield at the June 2012 European Council.
He held the position of judge at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg.
Moavero is a market and competition expert: until 2006 he was general director of the Bureau of European Policy Advisors of the European Commission and previously director of the Antitrust Service (2000-2001) and head of cabinet of the then EU Competition Commissioner Mario Monti (1999-2000).
In his hands incandescent dossiers, from Libya to the United States.
ALFONSO BONAFEDE, MINISTER OF JUSTICE
Born in 76, a lawyer, Sicilian by birth but Florentine by adoption, the M5s deputy Alfonso Bonafede is one of the parliamentarians closest to Luigi Di Maio, a closeness that has earned him the nickname "Mr Wolf of the Movement". He is among the big names in the Cinquestelle and was a proud opponent of the wiretapping reform wanted by Silvio Berlusconi, declaring: “It's madness. The prescription? We need more judges”. And again: "We need a new prison plan".
GIULIA BONGIORNO, MINISTER OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
Giulia Bongiorno, 52, is a well-known lawyer, who has always sided with the center-right. Together with Michelle Hunziker, you founded Double Defense, a foundation that helps women who are victims of discrimination, violence and abuse.
His name and fame are linked to the trial of Giulio Andreotti, accused of collusion with the mafia and of the murder of journalist Mino Pecorelli, which ended successfully thanks to his defence. Since then he has assisted many well-known names: Pierfrancesco Pacini Battaglia, the "banker one step below God", the financier Sergio Cragnotti, Vittorio Emanuele of Savoy, but also the footballers Cristiano Doni, Stefano Bettarini, Francesco Totti and Antonio Conte. He also defended Raffaele Sollecito in the trial for the murder of Meredith Kercker.
In 2006 she entered the Chamber with the National Alliance. With the elections of 4 March you became a senator under the League.
GIULIA GRILLO, MINISTER OF HEALTH
43 years old, Sicilian, Giulia Grillo has a degree in medicine and surgery with a specialization in forensic medicine. She has been an activist of the 5 Star Movement since the first hour, she entered parliament in 2013 and is today group leader in the Chamber.
Grillo declared herself in favor of vaccines, but against the Lorenzin decree. “We believe vaccines are essential in disease prevention and our goal is to ensure maximum vaccination coverage in the country. How to achieve this? The Lorenzin decree relies entirely on coercion, exposing itself to the extremely dangerous risk of obtaining the opposite effect”. This is what we read on her blog in a post entitled 'Vaccini, we will stop the Lorenzin decree'.
(Last update: 17.22 pm on 1st June)
