Giorgia Meloni, who will go down in history for being the first woman in Italy to become Prime Minister, dreamed of creating a high-profile government. She didn't exactly go like that. Compared to Draghi government, in which the figure of the prime minister was enough to give him a dimension of very high quality and great international credibility, the step backwards is quite evident. But the one presented by Meloni is a government that won the elections, which has every right to govern and which deserves to be judged on the facts. Which doesn't mean making discounts. Far from it. In a democracy, information, if it wants to be the watchdog of power, must be able to evaluate government action severely but without prejudice and without blinders. It was like this with previous governments and it must be like this with the Meloni government too.
Meloni government: unnecessarily divisive presences, but institutional profiles in the 5 key ministries
In the new government, the presence of some unnecessarily divisive ministers of questionable standing is certainly annoying – such as Daniela Santanchè at Tourism, Gennaro Sangiuliano at Culture and above all Eugenia Roccella at the Family – but overall it is a presentable government, in which the institutional profile of the five key ministers stands out: Antonio Tajani ai World, having already been President of the European Parliament; Matteo Piantedosi, the prefect of Rome, at theInternal; Giancarlo Giorgetti at theEconomy after having been Minister of Economic Development; Guido Crosetto, former entrepreneur, at the Ministry of DEFENSE and Carlo Nordio, former magistrate, at Justice. Of no one can it be said that he is Eurosceptic and that he is suspect of pro-Putin sympathies like Silvio Berlusconi and also Matthew Salvini. And this is no small thing. And it does credit to Giorgia Meloni who from the very first steps demonstrated undoubted leadership skills by keeping Salvini at bay (whom he denied returning to the Interior Ministry) and putting Berlusconi on the ropes, who demanded Justice for Casellati.
Will Meloni be able to govern? You will have to prove it in deeds and it is on these that you will be judged
So the team is there, but now they have to demonstrate their ability to govern on the field. It must do it immediately on the economic and social terrain but it must do it above all on the international terrain. We will understand better where the new government wants to go from the presentation to Parliament on Tuesday. But more than words will count the facts. Meloni of Palazzo Chigi is still the one who warned the EU during the electoral campaign that “The fun is over” or is that – as it seems to testify the Rome meeting with Macron – who has become aware that Europe is no joke and that Italy, if it does not want to end up on the margins, must establish a constructive relationship with its historic allies, starting with France? What's ahead of him are challenges that make your wrists shake but the history bus passes once and for Meloni the game of life is now. You can have all the opinions you want about the new prime minister and ours are certainly not prejudicially favorable to those who come from the sovereign and illiberal right like you, but you have to know how to put the national interest and at this moment Italy's interest is that the Meloni government makes it. Dreaming of a different future is always possible but the alternatives are not for today.
