Opinion: Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s first female prime minister, has surprised her critics
Meloni — 46 years old, telegenic, fast on her feet, whip-smart — has been a political operator since her teens. She is in her element working crowds, winning debates and wonking out on policy. Yet she took office amid fears that as head of a party with roots in post-World War II Italian fascism, she would destabilize the world’s eighth-largest economy and send shock waves across Europe.
Many might have been expecting an Italian version of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene , but instead they have someone angling to be seen as a traditional conservative like former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley. Even on immigration, which Meloni once said posed a threat of “Advertisement
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