MADRID, 22 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The leader of the Brothers of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, was sworn in this Saturday as the country’s new prime minister in front of President Sergio Mattarella at the beginning of the inauguration of his new government, held at the Quirinal Palace.
Meloni champions the most right-wing government in Italy since the postwar period, made with the support of La Liga and Forza Italia, the formation of Silvio Berlusconi, and which involves the return of the leader of La Liga, former Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, to a portfolio of government, now in charge of Infrastructures.
The far-right leader announced yesterday the composition of her new executive, in which both Salvini and the number two of Forza Italia and the new Foreign Minister, Antonio Tajani, will also act as deputy prime ministers.
For his part, the former Secretary of State for the Ministry of Defense between 2008 and 2011 under Berlusconi’s mandate and also president of the Brothers of Italy for just four months between December 2012 and April 2013, Guido Crosetto, will be in charge of defense functions.
The formation of Berlusconi, however, has been left without the portfolio of Justice, for which former judge Carlo Nordio, deputy for Brothers of Italy in the current legislature, has been appointed. Maria Elisabetta Albertini Casellati, who dreamed for said Ministry, will finally exercise the functions of Reforms.
For its part, the Ministry of the Interior will pass into the hands of Matteo Piantedosi, Giancarlo Giorgetti will be in charge of Economy and the Health portfolio will go to Orazio Schillaci; Giuseppe Valditara will exercise the tasks of Education.
