Meloni becomes Italy’s longest-serving PM since World War II

• Giorgia Meloni’s government became the longest-lasting in Italy’s history since World War II.

• Meloni became Italy’s first woman Prime Minister on October 22, 2022.

• She has been in charge of the same administration for 1,413 days, one more than Silvio Berlusconi managed in 2005.

• Italy has had 68 governments over the past 80 years.

• Past governments were toppled by crises and defections.

Profile of Giorgia Meloni:

• Giorgia Meloni was born in Rome on January 15, 1977.

• She became involved in politics at the age of 15, as a student and youth movement member. 

• At 21, she was elected councillor of the Province of Rome and, at 27, she was elected leader of Azione Giovani, the youth movement of the Alleanza Nazionale party.

• When she was 29, she was elected as a member of Parliament for the first time and, during the XV Legislature, she held the role of vice-president of the Chamber of Deputies. 

• She holds the record for being Italy’s youngest minister. In 2008, she became Minister for Youth at the age of 31.

• On December 21, 2012, she founded Fratelli d’Italia (Brothers of Italy), and is the party’s national president. 

• During the XVII Legislature, she was parliamentary group chair at the Chamber of Deputies. 

• In 2020, she was elected president of the European Conservatives and Reformists Party, a political family that brings together more than 40 EU and non-EU parties.

• On October 22, 2022, she was sworn in as the President of Italy.