Correct Answer : Giorgia Meloni
Giorgia Meloni has become the first woman prime minister of Italy, after defeating, Mario Draghi by a huge margin.
* Giorgia Meloni looks set to become
Italy's first woman prime minister at the head of its most right-wing government since World War Two after leading a conservative alliance to triumph at Sunday's(25th Sep 2022) election.
* Provisional results showed the rightist bloc should have a strong majority in both houses of parliament, potentially giving Italy a rare chance of political stability after years of upheaval and fragile coalitions.
* However, Meloni and her allies face a daunting list of challenges, including soaring energy prices, war in Ukraine and renewed slowdown in the euro zone's third largest economy.
* "We must remember that we are not at the end point, we are at the starting point. It is from tomorrow that we must prove our worth," the 45-year-old Meloni told cheering supporters of her nationalist Brothers of Italy party early Monday(26th Sep 2022) morning.
* Meloni plays down her party's post-fascist roots and portrays it as a mainstream group like Britain's Conservatives. She has pledged to back Western policy on Ukraine and not take risks with Italy's fragile finances.
* European capitals and financial markets will carefully scrutinize her early moves, given her eurosceptic past and her allies' ambivalent position on Russia.
* She has joined politics at age 15 in 1992, joining the neo-fascist Social Movement.
* She has also served as a youth minister in Berlusconi's 2008-2011 government before founding the Brothers of Italy in 2012.
* Three prominent political leaders
Meloni, La Russa, and
Crosetto founded a
new political movement Brothers of Italy in 2012.
Source : India Today
