Giorgia Meloni, Berlusconi and Salvini present their candidacy to Mattarella: “We are ready”

The president of the Republic, Serge Matterella, received this Friday at the Quirinal Palace Giorgia Meloni, Matteo Salvini and Silvio Berlusconi to form a government in Italy. At the end of the match, which lasted 11 minutes, the leader far-rightist Meloni has assured that “the center-right has designated me as prime minister”. This afternoon, at 4:30 p.m., Mattarella will summon Meloni to entrust him with the formation of the Government.

Meloni will be the first woman to occupy the presidency of the Italian Executive and has advanced that she will accept Mattarella’s assignment “without reservations” after attending the round of consultations at the Quirinal Palace together with her partners, Matteo Salvini and Silvio Berlusconi, in a show of unity from the right-wing coalition.

The leader of the Brothers of Italy has said that she is “ready” and has confirmed having the “unanimous” backing of Salvini’s League and Berlusconi’s Forza Italia. “The entire coalition has been presented together and in a unanimous declaration he has proposed to the president the indication of the one he subscribes to form a Government”, Meloni said at the end of the meeting.

[Las diferencias de Meloni y Berlusconi: Il Cavaliere no quiere ser secundario en el Gobierno de una mujer]

“We are readywe want to proceed in the shortest possible time”, added the leader of the Brothers of Italy, the party with the most votes in the elections on September 25. She also highlighted “the need to give this nation a new government as soon as possible in the face of the many national and international urgencies it faces”.Matteo Salvini has followed the same line: “The government team is ready. I can’t wait for it to start.”

ministers

At 4:30 p.m., Mattarella will summon Meloni again to ask him to form a government. Once Meloni accepts the assignment, the three parties must agree to divide up the ministries.

After this procedure, Giorgia Meloni will return to meet with Sergio Mattarella to give him the list of ministers, predictably this afternoon or already this Saturday. The president of the Republic it has the capacity to filter that list if it considers any of the names presented to be inadmissible.

The dance of names on that list of ministers is endless and controversial. In fact Salvini has demanded the Interior portfolio, to which Meloni refuses, and Berlusconi of Justice.

[Meloni no dará Interior al “prorruso” Salvini, que amenaza: “El ministerio o solo daré apoyo externo”]

Despite this, the unity of the right seems to show that the coalition has overcome, at least for now, the tensions between Meloni and Berlusconi, especially after he justified the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

In some audio leaked to the press, Berlusconi affirms have resumed his friendship with Vladimir Putin who, according to him, gave him 20 bottles of vodka and a “very kind letter” for his birthday, in addition to blaming the Ukrainian president, Volódimir Zelenski, for the war in Ukraine.

Berlusconi’s words have put the number two of Forza Italia in trouble, Antonio Tajani, the name that sounds like the most future foreign minister who this Thursday had to reiterate in public the Europeanism of his formation, that of his leader and his own after some leaks that, according to him, were a “revenge”.

The first government crisis

Meloni’s assignment will come after the first crisis of Government after last week Meloni Y Salvini divided up the Parliament by placing in the presidency of the Senate and of the Chamber of Deputies to their respective candidates, excluding from this first distribution of power the other coalition partner, the veteran Silvio Berlusconivisibly angry

The Chamber of Deputies elected President Lawrence fountaina salvinian ultra-catholic admirer of Vladimir Putin which captured 222 votes, with the support of the right-wing coalition that won the elections.

The choice of Fontana, a benchmark for the hard wing of the League for his positions against the collective LGBTIthe abortion and sanctions on Russia, was greeted by the left-wing opposition with a banner reading “No to a homophobic pro-Putin president“.

The person chosen to preside over the other parliamentary seat, the Senate, was Ignacio Benedict Maria The RussianMeloni’s right-hand man and old leader of the Italian Social Movementthe party of the last fascists (in fact it is named after the dictator Mussolini).