Giorgia Meloni
Giorgia Meloni (born January 15, 1977 in Rome ) is an Italian journalist and politician .
She has been the leader of the Fratelli d'Italia party since 2014 . In Silvio Berlusconi 's fourth cabinet , she was Minister for Youth and Sport from May 2008 to November 2011.
youth
Meloni grew up as the daughter of a Sicilian and a Sardinian in the Roman quarter of Garbatella. At the age of 15 she joined the Fronte della Gioventù ("Youth Front"), the youth organization of the neo-fascist Movimento Sociale Italiano (MSI). In addition, she founded and organized the protest movement Gli Antenati (German: "The Ancestors" but also the Italian name of the flintstones cartoon series ) against the school reform initiated by the Christian Democratic Education Minister Rosa Russo Iervolino . In 1996 she completed a language course at a hotel management school. According to her own information, she worked temporarily as a waitress, as a barmaid in the Piper discotheque and as a nanny in the household of the show master Fiorello .
Political career
In 1996 she was elected to head the Azione Studentesca , the student organization of the Alleanza Nazionale party (AN; successor party to the MSI, which had since turned away from fascism), and represented it in the forum for all student associations created by the Ministry of Education. From 1998 to 2002 she sat for her party in the Provincial Council of Rome . In 2000 she moved to the top of the Azione Giovane (youth organization of the AN), and she was elected national chairman in 2004.
In the 2006 parliamentary elections , she ran for the AN in the constituency of Lazio 1; she was elected to the Chamber of Deputies and held the office of Vice-President of the Lower Chamber of Parliament in the 15th legislative period (2006–2008) as the youngest member.
After her re-election in the early elections in 2008 and the clear victory of Berlusconi's new center-right alliance Popolo della Libertà (PdL), she became youth and sports minister of the new government on May 8, 2008 at the age of 31. She held the office until November 2011. After AN and Forza Italia merged into PdL in 2009, she became chairman of their youth organization Giovane Italia ("Young Italy"), which she led until 2012.
Out of dissatisfaction with Berlusconi's management style, Meloni founded the Fratelli d'Italia party together with Ignazio La Russa and others in December 2012, and was elected chairman in March 2014. In the local elections in Rome in 2016, she ran as a candidate for the office of mayor and came third with 20.7%.
Web links
- Official website (Italian)
- Biography at the Italian Government (Italian)
- Profile at the Italian Chamber of Deputies (Italian)
- Profile at openpolis.it (Italian)
Individual evidence
- ^ Giorgia Meloni: biografia, studi e carriera politica, curriculum. In: The Italian Times , May 27, 2019.
- ↑ Giorgia Meloni: gli Inizi nel Fronte della Gioventù. In: Corriere del Veneto , May 9, 2019.
- ^ Biografia di Giorgia Meloni. Governo italiano, as of November 2011, accessed on June 4, 2019.
- ^ Giorgia Meloni: "Io militante ventenne ei Lego con la figlia di Fiorello". In: Corriere della Sera (online), January 17, 2013.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meloni, Giorgia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian politician (Fratelli d'Italia) and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 15th January 1977 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rome |