Average age 60, only 6 women, 35% come from the North West: the identikit of the Meloni government

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Giorgia Meloni’s government will be composed of 26 members, namely the Prime Minister himself, the undersecretary to the presidency of the Council Alfredo Mantovano and 24 ministers, two of which (Tajani and Salvini) with the role of vice president of the Council. According to data processed by YouTrend, the average age of government members is 60, with Giorgia Meloni herself being the youngest (45 years old) and Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati the oldest (76 years old). The Council of Ministers will be composed of 19 men and 7 women (which is therefore 27%).

Only six female ministers (apart from Meloni)

In the new Executive, women, besides Giorgia Meloni, who is the first Italian Prime Minister, are 6 out of 26: Anna Maria Bernini, Elisabetta Casellati, Marina Calderone, Alessandra Locatelli, Eugenia Roccella, Daniela Santanché, while in Mario Draghi’s government women were 8 out of 23 ministers.

Northern traction government

The Northern patrol is definitely more nourished. Five of them arrive from Lombardy: Giancarlo Giorgetti (Varese), Alessandra Locatelli (Como); Matteo Salvini (Milan), Giuseppe Valditara (Milan); Roberto Calderoli (Bergamo). The Venetians instead are 3: Carlo Nordio (Treviso), Adolfo Urso (Padua, but grew up between Sicily and Rome), Elisabetta Casellati (Rovigo). Three are originally from Piedmont: Crosetto and Santanchè di Cuneo, Pichetto Fratin (Biella). One from Liguria, Zangrillo and one from Friuli, Ciriani (Pordenone). In addition to the 2 Bolognese Bernini and Roccella. Do not represent central regions such as Tuscany and Umbria in the government. 35% therefore comes from the North-West, 23% from the North-East, 19% from the Center, 15% from the South and 8% from the Islands.

Average age 60 years

As for age, 60-year-olds (12) prevail, but very little over 50-year-olds (10). Only 3, however, the 40-year-olds: Giorgia Meloni (45), Matteo Salvini (49) and Alessandra Locatelli (46). As a parliamentary membership, there are 9 senators: Salvini, Zangrillo, Santanchè, Bernini, Ciriani, Calderoli, Casellati, Musumeci and Urso. All the others, with the exception of 6 non-elected members (Piantedosi, Calderone, Valditara, Sangiuliano, Schillaci, Abodi) and Locatelli, who is a councilor in Lombardy, in addition to the 2 former parliamentarians such as Crosetto and Mantovano, all the others are deputies. Out of 26 members of the government – excluding Meloni and Mantovano – as regards party origin, there are 5 ‘technicians’, 9 from Fratelli d’Italia, 5 from Forza Italia and 5 from the Lega.

Melons first female premier

Giorgia Meloni is therefore the first woman to become prime minister in Italy and is the youngest exponent of the new executive. Before her, in this tiring and slow affirmation of women in politics, Tina Anselmi, who was the first woman minister, at the age of 49, in the Andreotti government in 1976, also achieved important milestones; Nilde Jotti, who was first elected to the Presidency of the Chamber three years later, in 1979, followed by Irene Pivetti (the youngest at the helm of Montecitorio) in 1994 and Laura Boldrini in 2013. Elisabetta Casellati was the first woman at the summit of Palazzo Madama. While the Christian Democrat Angela Maria Guidi Cingolani was the first female undersecretary in the 7th De Gasperi government.