To Be The First Italian Women's PM, Giorgia Meloni: Remember, We Are Not At The Final Point

Giorgia Meloni. (Twitter/@GiorgiaMeloni)

JAKARTA - Giorgia Meloni became the strong candidate for the prime minister of Itala, the first time the position has been occupied by women since World War Two, after leading a conservative alliance to win Sunday's election.

Ahead of the final election results, the right group has a strong majority in both parliamentary assemblies, potentially giving Italy a rare chance of political stability after years of upheaval and a fragile coalition.

"Giorgia Meloni has won", wrote Italy's biggest daily, Corriere della Sera, as reported by Reuters, September 26.

Meanwhile, the right-leaning Il Tempo contains the title "It's Giorgia's turn".

Meloni and her allies face a frightening list of challenges, including soaring energy prices, the war in Ukraine, and a new slowdown in the three-largest economy of the eurozone.

"We have to remember that we are not at the endpoint, we are at the starting point. Starting tomorrow we have to prove our value", said 45-year-old Meloni to supporters of the Nationalist Brothers of Italy party, Monday morning.

She has pledged to support Western policy on Ukraine, taking no risk with Italy's fragile finances.

The European capital and financial markets will carefully examine his first steps, given his skeptical past and the ambient position of his ally in Russia.

In her winning speech, Meloni gave a peaceful tone.

"If we are called upon to rule this country, we will do it for all Italians, to unite the people and focus on what unites us rather than what separates us", Meloni said.

"This is the time to take responsibility", she stressed.

With results calculated at more than 90 percent of polling stations, the Brothers of Italy took the lead with more than 26 percent, up from just 4 percent in the last national election in 2018, as voters voted for figures most of them had not been tried to sort out the country's many problems.

Meloni will replace Prime Minister Mario Draghi, former head of the European Central Bank, who pushed Roma to the European Union's policy-making center for 18 months on duty, in close ties with Paris and Berlin.

Despite the clear results, the vote was not strong support for the conservative alliance. The voter is only 64 percent compared to 73 percent four years ago, the lowest record in a country that has historically had strong voter participation.