Giorgia Meloni is about to become the prime minister leading the longest-serving government in the history of the Italian Republic. And at Repubblica, the sour grapes have already started, complete with the usual reference to fascism. “In nine days, on September 4, 2026, Giorgia Meloni’s government will be solemnly proclaimed by statistics as the longest-serving in history, not only of the Italian Republic. Excluded, of course, is the twenty-year Mussolinian period, a parenthesis that sounds a bit off to the right, but so be it,” writes Filippo Ceccarelli in the newspaper directed by Stefano Cappellini. “That Friday, Her Majesty Giorgia will have led the Nation for 1413 days, against the 1412 days of the Berlusconi bis; but comparing herself with the longest-lasting government of the Kingdom,” it continues.
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Immediately after, an (unflattering) comparison is made between Giorgia Meloni’s longevity record at Palazzo Chigi and that of Elly Schlein at the helm of the Nazareno. “Here, behind the records of permanence in power, once again emerges the shadow of the great and denied democratic and – here it is needed – also republican crisis – Repubblica’s consideration – for which a leadership command and a vertical sovereignty that persist without possibility of ending, undoubtedly recall the monarchical idea, and not by chance for some months now in current journalism Meloni and Schlein have been referred to as two ‘queens’“. So, according to the comrades, stability is synonymous with democratic deficit. And not the result of excellent work at the helm of the country.
