Giorgia Meloni, the confession on the political debut: "Men didn't accept me. But Bertinotti …"

Giorgia Meloni, president of Fratelli d'Italia, is the leader of the moment. 42 years old, Roman, Meloni has recently passed Matteo Salvini in the approval ratings on the leaders, finishing second after the premier Giuseppe Conte. If the polls represent a thermometer, Giorgia Meloni has channeled the sovereignty fever. "But what an effort to get to this point", says Meloni in an interview full of anecdotes a The Republic. After the good wishes of the new premier-woman in Finland, the leader of the sovereignists speaks about the condition of women in politics and difficulties in being accepted as leaders. To give an idea, use the similitude of the students always "under scrutiny" and cites the Canadian Charlotte Witton, the first female mayor of a capital: "A woman must do everything twice as good as a man to be considered good half."

The interview de The Republic continues retracing some salient points of Giorgia Meloni's political career. The political debut at 15, then the president of the right-wing youth association "Action", until it landed in Parliament in 2006, when it was chosen as Vice-President of the Chamber. From that period, Meloni remembers thehigh level and the depth of politics. In his view, the then president of the Chamber, the communist Fausto Bertinotti, represented an illuminating guide for a young Meloni novice. Despite the antipodal political sensitivities, Bertinotti was close to her, unlike left of today, that with the proverbial moral superiority looks "from the top down the sovranist parties". She, a sovereign leader "respected more from the right than from the left", confirms the synergy with Salvini to which she is linked by common values ​​and horizons. Finally a tip to his daughter: "Do not do politics. Study, study, study".