Meloni says time for figure from Right of political spectrum of be Italy's president

Premier Giorgia Meloni has said it is time for a figure from the Right of the political spectrum to become Italy's president. "After breaking the one at (the premier's office at) Palazzo Chigi, the right can break the taboo of the Quirinal (presidential palace) too," Meloni, the leader of the right-wing Brothers of Italy (FdI) party, told Mediaset's '10 Minuti' programme. "It would be terrible news for a certain part of the establishment, but it would affirm something very simple - that those who aren't on the Left aren't the children of a lesser god. "But the Italians will decide". Meloni became Italy's ever woman premier and its most right-wing head of government since World War II after the centre-right coalition she heads won the September 2022 general election.

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