In the last few hours, several media outlets, including The Republic Y the 7they have retrieved an interview made by him journalist Stefano Cappellini over a decade ago to the current First minister. The video, which lasts just over a minute, shows a young Giorgia Meloni responding to a battery of quick questions to which he gives concise and, in some cases, diplomatic answers. Their political lines have not changed much since then.
Sometimes it happens that the newspaper library is used to retrieve old statements made by a public figure and check how his line of thought has changed to the point of saying just the opposite in the present with respect to what was said long ago. In this specific case, that of this 2006 interview now recovered, it does not seem that Meloni has currently changed much of his opinion depending on what issues.
The quick test it lends itself to begins with your motivation to enter the match. She mentions the murder of magistrate Paolo Borsellino, who brought several cases against Cosa Nostra and died at the hands of the Sicilian mafia in 1992. She, who in her fiery and euphoric speech at the Vox rally in Andalusia defined herself as a woman, a mother and Christian, in 2006, to the question of whatWhat three adjectives defined his party answered that “identity, community and spirituality”.
A fan of Rome and with a collection of angels like hobby highlighted, this young Meloni responded forcefully when asked about if I would change the Abortion Law ensuring that “no”, but that they would apply it. Precisely this week different information has been published about the plans of the new prime minister regarding the right to termination of pregnancy.
What he has said, in statements to EFE collected by Newtral, is also in that line marked 16 years ago. And it is that he has no intention of modifying the 1978 law, but he has made it clear that what they will do “is also fully implement the first part of the current law 194that is, anticipate prevention policies to offer an alternative women who are considering abortion for financial reasons. These women have to find a friendly State by their side: more opportunities and not less rights”.
Contrary to the legalization of drugs, he also said that he did not consider it necessary for a homosexual politician to make his orientation public and that his minimum salary in order not to be considered poor would be 1,500 euros. 16 years later and with inflation skyrocketing, now her answer, sure of her, would be a higher one. Her salary as Prime Minister of Italy is just over 6,500 euros per month.
In 1996, when I was 19 years old, Benito Mussolini said what had been “a good politician” and that what he did “he did for Italy.” a decade laterin front of Cappellini’s microphone, he limited himself to qualifying him as a “historical character” when they asked about him.
Another outstanding moment is when they ask him how he would explain to a child the difference between the right and the left and he simplifies by assuring that the right puts love above all else in its “own land” while the left “puts its own ideology before everything else”. And how singular noteMeloni said in 2006 that his reference political text was The Lord of the ringsJ. R. R. Tolkien
That interview was done at the age of 29, before the 2006 elections and after which she became the youngest parliamentarian elected in that legislature. as it points The Republic when recovering this video, in it Meloni fixed the key points of his “future political action: identity, love of country, opposition to the legalization of soft drugs and a minimum wage of 1,500 euros, below which one enters poverty”.
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The express test on a young Giorgia Meloni shows how little has changed