1.
THE MELONI
GOVERNMENT
November 2022

2.
THE ELECTIONS
On 25 September 2022 Italians voted for a
new Chamber of Deputies and the Senate.
For the very first time, even 18-year-olds
could vote for the Senate (Constitutional
Law n. 1/2021 lowering the voting age from
25 to 18 in Senate elections).
The centre-right coalition won with an
absolute majority in both Houses.
Brothers of Italy, led by Giorgia Meloni,
came out ahead with 26% of the votes.

3.
THE MELONI GOVERNMENT
President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella
began talks to form a new government and
the following day appointed Giorgia Meloni
as Prime Minister.
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Meloni and her ministers were sworn in
before the President of the Republic.
The new government won the vote of
confidence in the Chamber of Deputies with
a large majority (235 in favour, 154 against,
5 abstained) and the next day in the Senate
(115 in favour, 79 against and 5 abstained).

4.
WHO ARE THE NEW MINISTERS?
There are 25 new Ministers: 10
from Brothers of Italy, 5 from
the League, 5 from Forza Italia
and 5 ‘technocrats’
Many of them, including
Prime Minister Meloni, have
already held government
office or have experience in
Parliament. An experience that,
in some ways, is reflected in
the average age of the new
government: 60 years old.
This is the first time in
Italian history that a woman
has been the Head of the
Government.
However, in the new
executive, only 7 out of 25
ministers are women.

5.
THE PRIME MINISTER

6.
GIORGIA MELONI
She started her political career at the tender age
of 15. In 1996 she became the national leader
of Student Action, the youth movement of the
National Alliance. At 21 she became Councillor to
the Province of Rome. At 29 she was elected to the
Chamber of Deputies for the first time. At 31 she
was appointed Minister for Youth Policies, making
her the youngest minister in the history of the
Republic.
In 2012 she founded her party, Brothers of Italy.
In 2016 she ran for Mayor of Rome, interestingly,
while she was pregnant with her daughter Ginevra.
She is a journalist and a writer.
She adores the J.R.R. Tolkien series ‘The Lord of the
Rings’. She was born in Rome on 15 January 1977.

7.
THE MINISTERS

8.
MATTEO SALVINI (THE LEAGUE)
He is the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport
and the Deputy Prime Minister.
In 2018-2019 during the first Conte government, he
was the Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister
of the Interior. He has been the Federal Secretary
of the League since 2013. He began his career in
politics in 1993 when he was elected Milan City
Councillor. He has been elected to the European
Parliament three times (2004-2006, then for two
consecutive terms from 2009 to 2018). He is wildly
popular on social media, with over 4.5 million
followers on Facebook and over 2 million on
Instagram. He is a huge fan of the Milan football
club. He was born in Milan on 9 March 1973.

9.
ANTONIO TAJANI (FORZA ITALIA)
He is the Minister of Foreign Affairs and
International Cooperation and the Deputy Prime
Minister. He is the co-founder of Forza Italia and in
2021 became the party’s National Coordinator.
Since his election to the European Parliament in 1994,
he has spent over 20 years of his political career
inside the EU institutions. He was the European
Commissioner for Transport (2008), European
Commissioner for Industry, Vice President of the
European Commission (2010) and President of the
European Parliament (2017). He was born in Rome
on 4 August 1953 and lived in France for five years as
a child when his father was an army officer stationed
in a NATO command. He speaks French, English and
Spanish.

10.
MATTEO PIANTEDOSI
He is the Minister of the Interior. Formerly the
Prefect of Rome (2020-2022), in 1989 he began his
career in the civil administration of the Ministry of
the Interior. He has served as Head of Cabinet for
the Bologna Prefect, Vice Prefect (2007), the Prefect
of Bologna (2017) and the Prefect of Lodi (2011).
He was the Deputy Head of Cabinet for Interior
Minister Annamaria Cancellieri (2021) and the Head
of Cabinet for Interior Minister Salvini (2018-2019)
and Minister Luciana Lamorgese (2019-2020). He
is a fan of Italian singer-songwriter Pino Daniele, a
cycling enthusiast and an avid reader of books by
Gabriel Garcia Márquez. He was born in Naples on
20 April 1963 but grew up in the Province of Avellino.

11.
CARLO NORDIO (BROTHERS OF ITALY)
He is the Minister of Justice. Until 2017, he was a
judge and in the ‘80s conducted investigations into
The Red Brigades and in the ‘90s into the so-called
‘Tangentopoli’ (often translated as ‘Bribesville’)
system of Italian political corruption. In 2022 he
was elected to the Chamber of Deputies on the
Brothers of Italy list. During the 2022 elections for
the President of the Republic, he was one of the
candidates proposed by the centre-right. He is
passionate about history and literature and has
written two novels set during World War II. His
favourite politician is Winston Churchill.
He was born in Treviso on 6 February 1947.

12.
GUIDO CROSETTO (BROTHERS OF ITALY)
He is the Minister of Defence. He is an entrepreneur
and since 2014 has served as President of the Italian
Federation of Aerospace Companies (AIAD) and
since 2020 of Orizzonte Sistemi Navali, a joint venture
between Fincantieri and Leonardo for high-tech
systems for military ships. From 1990 to 2004 he was
Mayor of Marene, his hometown and from 1999 to
2009 served as Councillor to the Cuneo Province.
He was first a member of centrist Christian Democracy
(DC) then switched to Forza Italia. He was elected to
the Chamber of Deputies in 2001, 2006 and 2008.
From 2008 to 2011 he was Undersecretary of
Defence for the fourth Berlusconi government. He is
one of the founders of Brothers of Italy. He was born
in Cuneo on 19 September 1963. People call him the
“Gentle Giant” and the “Great Mediator”.

13.
GIANCARLO GIORGETTI (LEAGUE)
He is the Minister of Economy and Finance. Federal
Deputy Secretary of the League, from 2002 to 2012
Giorgetti was the secretary of the Lombard League.
He served as President of the Budget Committee for
the Chamber of Deputies for two legislatures (2001-
2006/2008-2013). During the first Conte government,
he served as Secretary of the Council of Ministers
and during the Draghi government (2021-2022) as
the Minister of Economic Development. His political
activism began in the ‘80s with the Youth Front.
He later joined Umberto Bossi’s Lombard League in
the ‘90s. From 1995 to 2004 he was Mayor of Cazzago
Brabbia (Varese), his hometown. He is passionate about
football and a fan of Southampton and the Varese
football club. He was born on 16 December 1966.

14.
ADOLFO URSO (BROTHERS OF ITALY)
He is the Minister of Enterprises and Made in Italy.
He served as a MP for five legislatures, from 1994
to 2013. He was one of the founders of the National
Alliance and later of the People of Freedom. In 2013
he joined Brothers of Italy. From 2001 to 2006 (second
Berlusconi government) and from 2009-2010 (fourth
Berlusconi government) he served as Deputy Minister
of Economic Development. In 2018 he was elected
to the Senate on the Brothers of Italy list. In 2021 he
was elected President of the Joint Committee for the
Security of the Republic (COPASIR). He was born in
Padua on 12 July 1957. He is the author of ‘Euroglobal:
Freedom, Identity, Integration’ (2003), a book about
globalisation based on his direct experience ‘in the field’.

15.
FRANCESCO LOLLOBRIGIDA (BROTHERS OF ITALY)
He is the Minister of Agriculture, Food Sovereignty
and Forests. His political activism began with the Youth
Front, then continued later with Youth Action, where
he met Giorgia Meloni. He is one of Meloni’s most
trusted collaborators. From 2006 to 2010 he served
as Regional Councillor to the Lazio Region and from
2010 to 2013 as Regional Minsiter of Mobility and
Transport for the Lazio Region. In 2018 he was elected
to the Chamber of Deputies for the first time and is the
group leader of Brothers of Italy. He is a huge Lazio
football fan and even founded a Lazio Fan Club within
the Chamber of Deputies. He is married to Arianna
Meloni, Giorgia’s older sister and is the grandnephew
of Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida. He was born in Tivoli
(Municipality of Rome) on 21 March 1972.

16.
GILBERTO PICHETTO FRATIN (FORZA ITALIA)
He is the Minister of the Environment and Energy
Security.
His got his start in politics in the ‘80s, when he
held various municipal and regional offices in the
Piedmont. In 2008 he was elected to the Senate
for the first time and then returned in 2018. In 2021
he was appointed Deputy Minister of Economic
Development.
An accountant and Juventus football fan, during the
Draghi government he liaised with entrepreneurs
and trade groups. Which ones? The beach
concessionaires during the tug of war over the
Competition Bill, for example.
He was born in Veglio (Biella) on 4 January 1954.

17.
MARINA CALDERONE
She is the Minister of Labour and Social Policy.
Since 2005 she has been President of the National
Council of the Order of Labour Consultants.
From 2014 to 2020 she was on the Board of
Leonardo SpA. In 2019 she was one of the
candidates for President of the National Institute
for Social Security (INPS), proposed by the League.
She is the author of the book ‘Ten Work Ideas for
Our Children’ (2012).
She was born in Bonorva (Sassari) on 30 July 1965.

18.
GIUSEPPE VALDITARA (LEAGUE)
He is the Minister of Education and Merit. He
is a Professor of Private and Public Law at the
University of Turin.
He has been elected to the Senate three times, in
2001, 2006 and 2008.
In 2005 he was invited by the People’s Republic of
China as a legal expert to draft the Chinese law on
non-contractual liability.
He was born in Milan on 12 January 1961.

19.
ANNA MARIA BERNINI (FORZA ITALIA)
She is the Minister of Universities and Research.
Bernini got her start in politics in the National
Alliance. In 2007 she helped found the thinktank
FareFuturo (literally, Make the Future). Then she
joined the People of Freedom and, finally, Forza
Italia, where she has served as Deputy National
Coordinator since 2021. In 2008 she was elected
to the Chamber of Deputies for the first time,
and in 2011 Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi
appointed her Minister of EU Affairs.
In 2013 and 2018 she was elected to the Senate.
A lawyer and professor of comparative public law,
she was born in Bologna on 17 August 1965.

20.
GENNARO SANGIULIANO
He is the Minister of Culture. A journalist and writer,
from 1996 to 2001 Sangiuliano was the director of
the Naples daily newspaper ‘Roma’; from 2018 to
2022, the director of channel TG2 of the Italian state
broadcaster RAI; and from 2009-2008 Vice-director of
the daily newspaper ‘Libero’ and of RAI channel TG1.
As a young man, he was a member of the Youth Front
and from 1983 to 1987 served as Naples City Councillor
for the right-wing Italian Social Movement (MSI) in the
Soccavo constituency in Naples. He is passionate about
contemporary history and has published biographies
on historical figures of our time, from Putin to Trump
to Hillary Clinton. He boasts a personal library of over
15,000 books. He was born in Naples on 6 June 1962.

21.
ORAZIO SCHILLACI
He is the Minister of Health.
Since 2019 he has been Dean of the University
of Tor Vergata in Rome after serving as Head
of the Medical Faculty. A Professor of nuclear
medicine, from 2006 to 2009 he was a member
of the National Health Council. In 2020 he was
appointed to the Scientific Committee of the
National Institute of Health (ISS) and in the past
served on numerous committees of the Ministry
of Health and of the Lazio Region.
His hobbies include reading and… football.
He was born in Rome on 27 April 1966.

22.
DANIELA SANTANCHÈ (BROTHERS OF ITALY)
She is the Minister of Tourism.
She began her political career by working with
Ignazio La Russa (today the President of the
Senate) in 1995 and joined the National Alliance.
In 2001 she was elected to the Chamber of
Deputies, then re-elected in 2006. In 2008 she
ran in the political elections as the leader of the
Right-Tricolor Flame, but the lists didn’t get the
number of votes required for the quorum. From
2010 to 2011 (fourth Berlusconi government)
she was Undersecretary of Programme
Implementation. In 2013 she joined Forza Italia
and, in 2017, Brothers of Italy. She was born in
Cuneo on 7 April 1961.

23.
ALFREDO MANTOVANO (BROTHERS OF ITALY)
He is the Undersecretary to the Prime Minister’s
Office with secretary functions. A judge and Member
of the Italian High Court of Cassation until receiving
his government appointment, in 1995 he was Head
of the legislative office of the Ministry of Agriculture
during the first Berlusconi government. He has
been elected to Parliament various times: first with
the National Alliance and then with the People of
Freedom. In 2001 he served as Undersecretary
of the Ministry of the Interior during the second
Berlusconi government and served in the same
capacity in 2008 during the fourth Berlusconi
government. He has worked as a freelance journalist
since 1984. He was born in Lecce on 14 January 1958.

24.
LUCA CIRIANI (BROTHERS OF ITALY)
He is the Minister for Parliamentary Relations.
Ciriani was the youth director of the right-wing
Italian Social Movement, then joined the National
Alliance. In 1998, 2003 and 2008 he was a member
of the Regional Executive Council of the Friuli
Venezia Giulia Region. In 2018 he was elected to the
Senate for the first time, then re-elected in 2022.
He is considered one of Prime Minister Meloni’s
right-hand men. What is his main distinguishing
characteristic: his calmness. He was born in
Pordenone on 26 January 1967.

25.
PAOLO ZANGRILLO (FORZA ITALIA)
He is the Minister of Public Administration.
Head of human resources for important Italian
companies such as Magneti Marelli, Fiat, Iveco and
Acea, Zangrillo was elected to the Chamber of
Deputies for the first time in 2018 and in 2022 to
the Senate.
He is the younger brother of Alberto Zangrillo,
Silvio Berlusconi’s personal physician and
president of the Genoa football club, which is also
Minister Zangrillo’s favourite club. He was born in
Genoa on 3 December 1961.

26.
ROBERTO CALDEROLI (LEAGUE)
He is the Minister of Regional Affiaris and
Autonomies. From 2002 to 2020 he was the
coordinator of the National Secretaries of the
League. He has served as Vice President of the
Senate four times (2001-2004, 2006-2008, 2013-
2018, 2018-2022). From 2004 to 2006 he was the
Minister of Institutional Reform and from 2008
to 2011, the Minister of Better Regulation. He was
first elected to Parliament in 1992. He knows the
Senate rules like the back of his hand and when
he was with the opposition, he declared: ‘I know
the rules by heart, and when necessary, I use this
to cause trouble for the majority.’ He was born in
Bergamo on 18 April 1956.

27.
SEBASTIANO MUSUMECI (BROTHERS OF ITALY)
Aka Nello, he is the Minister for Sea Policies and the
South. From 1994 to 2003 Musumeci was President
of the Province of Catania and a member of the
European Parliament (until 2009). In 2011 he served
as Undersecretary to the Ministry of Labour and
Social Policy. From 2017 to 2022 he was President
of the Sicily Region. He got his start in politics at 15 in
the ranks of Young Italy, the youth movement of the
Italian Social Movement and served as provincial party
secretary in 1997. He later joined the National Alliance
but in 2005 left the party to found the Sicilian Alliance,
a right-wing regional autonomy movement. He has
worked as a freelance journalist since 1977. He was
born in Militello in Val di Catania on 21 January 1955.

28.
RAFFAELE FITTO (BROTHERS OF ITALY)
He is the Minister for European Affairs, Cohesion
Policies and the National Recovery and
Resilience Plan.
He began his political activism with the Christian
Democrats (DC) and in 1990 was elected Regional
Councillor for the Puglia Region. In 1999 he
joined Forza Italia and was elected to the
European Parliament.
In 2000 he was elected President of the Puglia
Region and is the youngest regional President in
the history of the Italian Republic. Even his father,
Salvatore, was President of Puglia in the ‘80s.
He was born in Maglie (Lecce) on 28 August 1969.

29.
ANDREA ABODI
He is the Minister for Sports and Youth.
A manager and journalist, from 2010-2017 he
served as President of the National Association
of Professional B League Football and Federal
Councilor of the Italian Football Federation.
He is President of the Sports Credit Institute
and Vice President of the Giovanni Paolo II Sports
Foundation. He was born in Rome on 7 March
1960.

30.
EUGENIA MARIA ROCCELLA (BROTHERS OF ITALY)
She is the Minister for the Family, Birth Rate and
Equal Opportunities.
Roccella is a journalist who at 18 began her
political activism by joining the Women’s
Liberation Movement.
After taking a long break from politics, in 2008 she
was elected to the Chamber of Deputies on the
list of the People of Freedom for Forza Italia. From
2009 to 2011 she was Undersecretary of Health.
She was re-elected in 2013 and joined the New
Centre Left. She is the founder of There’s Only
One Mother, an organisation against surrogacy.
She was born in Bologna on 15 November 1953.

31.
MARIA ELISABETTA ALBERTI CASELLATI (FORZA ITALIA)
She is the Minister for Institutional Reform.
From 2018 to 2022 she served as President of
the Senate. She has been an activist in Forza Italia
since its founding and was elected to the Senate in
1994, 2001 and 2018.
From 2004 to 2006 she was Undersecretary of
Health and from 2008 to 2011 Undersecretary
of Justice. In 2014 she was elected as a layperson
to serve on the High Council of the Judiciary, an
office she held until 2018. Casellati is a marriage
attorney. She was born in Rovigo on 12 August
1946.

32.
ALESSANDRA LOCATELLI (LEAGUE)
She is the Minister of Disabilities. In July 2019 for a
few weeks, she served as the Minister for the Family
and Disabilities during the first Conte government.
In January 2021 she took office as Councillor for
Families, Social Solidarity, Disabilities and Equal
Opportunities for the Lombardy Region. In 2017
she was elected to the Como City Council and then
appointed Deputy Mayor. She was elected to the
Chamber of Deputies in 2018 and until 2021 was
a member of the XII Committee (Social Affairs and
Health). Locatelli holds a degree in sociology and
is a specialised educator in caring for the mentally
disabled. She has worked as a volunteer in Africa.
She was born in Como on 24 September 1976.

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