By Safe Investment July 20, 2025
Meloni was ranked seventh on Forbes magazine's list of the world's most powerful women.
Giorgia Meloni (Italian) is an Italian politician serving as Prime Minister of Italy since 22 October 2022, the first woman to hold the position. A member of the Chamber of Deputies since 2006, she has led the Brothers of Italy (FdI) political party since 2014, and she has been the president of the European Conservatives and Reformists Party since 2020.
Giorgia Meloni is a prominent Italian politician known for her rapid rise from grassroots activism to becoming Italy’s first female Prime Minister.
Early Life
Political Beginnings
Political carrier
In 1992, Meloni joined the Youth Front.She later became the national leader of Student Action, the student movement of the National Alliance (AN), a post-fascist party that became the legal successor of the MSI in 1995 and moved towards national conservatism.
She was a councillor of the Province of Rome from 1998 to 2002, after which she became president of Youth Action, the youth wing of AN. In 2008, she was appointed Italian Minister of Youth in the fourth Berlusconi government, a role she held until 2011.
In 2012, she co-founded FdI, the legal successor of AN, and became its president in 2014. The FdI increased its popularity in opinion polls, particularly during the management of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy by the Draghi Cabinet, a national unity government in which the FdI was the only opposition party. Following the fall of the Draghi government, the FdI won the 2022 Italian general election.
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A supporter of NATO, she holds Eurosceptic views about the European Union, which she describes as Eurorealist, and was in favour of better relations with Russia before the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, after which she promised to continue sending arms to Ukraine.
Meloni has expressed controversial views, such as in 2020, when she praised Giorgio Almirante, the head of cabinet in Mussolini's Italian Social Republic who spread racist propaganda and co-founded the MSI. In 2022,
Why Forbes Ranked Her So High
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