Portrait of Giorgia Meloni
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Giorgia Meloni

Role
Italian prime minister
Lived
1977–
Country of activity
Italy Italy
Strongest axis
Nationalism 83%

Giorgia Meloni has been prime minister of Italy since October 2022, leading the Brothers of Italy party at the head of a right-wing coalition. Her government has tightened migration control, backed Ukraine and pursued a premier-election constitutional reform.

In the 12 Axes register, Giorgia Meloni leans hardest on Internationalism – Nationalism: Nationalism 83%; the register median is balanced 50%.

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The twelve axes

Where Giorgia Meloni sits on each of the twelve axes, in four categories. The label is our estimate; the line under it says why.

Government

FederalUnitary

Centrist

Approved differentiated regional autonomy law

DemocraticAutocratic

Centrist

Proposed direct election of the prime minister

Security 68%Freedom

Statist

Passed security decrees and tougher penalties

Diplomacy

InternationalismNationalism 83%

Nationalist

Defends national sovereignty within the EU

MilitaristPacifist

Neutral

Supports NATO and military aid to Ukraine

Assimilationist 68%Multiculturalist

Assimilationist

Pursues stricter control of irregular immigration

Economy

CollectivizePrivatize 68%

Economic Liberal

Cut taxes and raised the cash payment limit

PlannedMarkets 68%

Markets

Backs business deregulation alongside energy subsidies

IsolationismGlobalism

Moderate

Used 'Mattei Plan' for Africa, wary of tariffs

Society

IrreligiousReligious 83%

Religious

Stresses Christian identity and family values

ProgressiveTraditional 83%

Traditionalist

Opposes same-sex adoption, backs the traditional family

AccelerationBioconservative 68%

Bioconservative

Banned lab-grown meat and surrogacy abroad

What stands out

Set against the median of all 124 figures in the register.

Most distinctive axis

Planned – Markets

On Planned – Markets, Giorgia Meloni is at Markets 68%. The register median is Planned 68%.

Most ordinary axis

Militarist – Pacifist

On Militarist – Pacifist, Giorgia Meloni is at balanced 50%, almost the register median of balanced 50%.

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Closeness is 100 minus the root-mean-square distance on all twelve axes.

Sources and image credit

Portrait: Governo Italiano, CC BY 3.0 it, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped and resized.

About these positions

The tiers on this page are our estimates from public positions and policies. They are not an official statement by the person or the government concerned. Two independent passes scored every axis and a third settled the differences. How the register works. Found a mistake? Write to [email protected].