page_title: Giorgia Meloni
section_title: Minister of Youth
hierarchical_section_title: Giorgia Meloni / Political career / Minister of Youth
caption_attribution_description: English: Giorgia Meloni
context_page_description: Giorgia Meloni is an Italian journalist and politician who leads Brothers of Italy, a national conservative party in Italy. Meloni served also as Minister of Youth in Silvio Berlusconi's fourth government and president of Young Italy, the youth section of The People of Freedom.
  She is the co-founder of the right-wing party Brothers of Italy, along with Guido Crosetto and Ignazio La Russa, and on 8 March 2014, she was elected president of the party. She has been a member of the Chamber of Deputies of Italy since 2006.
context_section_description: In the 2006 general election Meloni was elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies; subsequently she became the youngest ever Vice President of the Chamber. In the same year she started to work as a journalist.
  In 2008 she was appointed Minister of Youth Policies in the fourth cabinet led by the media mogul Silvio Berlusconi, a position she held until 16 November 2011 when the former was forced to resign as Prime Minister amid a financial crisis and public protests. She was the youngest-ever minister in the history of the Italian Republic. In August 2008 Meloni invited Italian athletes to boycott the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games in disagreement with the Chinese policy implemented towards Tibet; however, this statement was criticised by Berlusconi and Foreign Affairs Minister Franco Frattini.
  In 2009 her party merged with Forza Italia into The People of Freedom and she took over the presidency of the united party's youth section, called Young Italy. In the same year she voted for the decree law against euthanasia.
  In November 2010, on behalf of the ministry, she presented a 300 million euro package called the "Right to the Future", aimed at investing in young people and containing five initiatives, including incentives for new entrepreneurs, bonuses in favour of temporary workers and loans for deserving students.
  In November 2012 she announced her bid to contest the leadership of the People of Freedom party against Angelino Alfano, in opposition to the party's support of the Monti Cabinet. After the cancellation of the primaries, she teamed up with fellow politicians Ignazio La Russa and Guido Crosetto to set out an anti-Monti policy, asking for renewal within the party and being also critical of the leadership of Silvio Berlusconi.
caption: Portrait of Giorgia Meloni for the Chamber of Deputies (2006)
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