After taking office, the new Italian Prime Minister presents this Tuesday, October 25 to the deputies the program of the right-wing coalition composed of the Fratelli d’Italia, the League and Forza Italia. On Wednesday, she will appear before the Senate. When its program has been approved by both chambers, the government will be officially in office.
With our correspondent in Rome, Anne Treca
In recent weeks, Giorgia Meloni has changed. Gone is the passionate tone of the meetings which ignites the far-right crowds as in Spain, at the Vox party meeting, in June 2022. Since his electoral success, she always insists in her rare statements on the responsibility of the new government at a difficult time for Italy. It is much more discreet, pragmatic and institutional.
Before Parliament, she must present this Tuesday, October 25 the common program of a coalition which did not have one and finally say what the three right-wing parties want to do together for the next five years. These speeches will be a balancing act for the Prime Minister, because there are all the shades of the right in the coalition. Giorgia Meloni is on the far right, but she must also satisfy the elected representatives of the League, an autonomist party and those of Forza Italia, who are heirs to Christian democracy.
Towards constructive work with the European Union?
Moreover, his speech will also be widely followed outside Italy by European governments and by the financial markets, very suspicious of the management of the colossal Italian debt. It has very narrow room for manoeuvre.
She will talk to the elected members of Parliament about ultra-urgent issues for Italians: the price of energy, the cost of living, the finance bill. The presence to the new government of two former ministers of Mario Draghi seems to indicate a desire for continuity in managing the economy and the energy crisis.
It even announces now a constructive collaboration with the European Union. There remains the method and the discourse. We will see if in front of her elected officials the new Prime Minister finds the nationalist and protectionist accents of the campaign which made her electoral success.
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