The Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, assured this Thursday, April 9, before parliament, that she does not intend to carry out any governmental remodeling and that she intends to complete the legislature, despite the recent defeat in the referendum on judicial reform.
Addressing the chamber of deputies, in Rome, in a session on government action as he heads into the last year of his executive’s mandate – which ends in September next year -, Meloni assured that “there is no intention of carrying out a ministerial reform”.
He argued that “despite having had to manage the worst situation in recent decades, this continues to be the government that returned Italy to political stability, international credibility, seriousness in resource management and better economic indicators”.
In power for three and a half years, since October 2022, Meloni, leader of the conservative nationalist party Brothers of Italy and the first woman to hold the head of government in the history of the Italian Republic, suffered the first major defeat at the polls in a referendum held on March 22 and 23.
Meloni saw his executive’s proposal to reform the justice sector rejected, by a difference of almost two million votes (the “No” obtained 53.7%, against just over 46% for the “Yes”), a result that led to the dismissal of three members of the government.
Commenting today that the government has a “clear conscience” and respects the rejection of the justice reform, which he admitted was “one of the commitments made to the Italians” at the beginning of the legislature, Meloni assured that there will be no more “dismissals or remodeling” and the current executive will carry out its mandate until the end.
“There is no need for new political guidelines, because ours have always been part of the government’s program, and we will govern for five years, as we committed to doing,” he declared.
“I have many defects, except one: I don’t run away, I don’t run away from problems and I’m used to assuming my responsibilities”, he reinforced, promising that, by the end of the legislature, his government “will do more and better”.
The ultra-conservative government led by Giorgia Meloni, which, in addition to her party, Brothers of Italy, includes the League, by Matteo Salvini (far right), and Força Italia, by Antonio Tajani (right), is already the third longest-lived in the Italian Republic, which, over its 79 years, has had 68 governments, which means that the average ‘life expectancy’ of an executive in Italy is approximately 13 months.
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