Lives solidarity

For Meloni, mothers are “veterans on the front line”

The Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni(Bild: APA/Getty Images via AFP/GETTY IMAGES/CHIP SOMODEVILLA)

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni compared mothers to "veterans on the front line" on Sunday. The mothers of her seven-year-old daughter's school friends would help her in her everyday life, the politician said in a podcast.

"I don't know what many of the moms in my daughter's class vote for, but they do their best to help me. They know that I can't take Ginevra to school parties and offer to take her with me," Giorgia Meloni explained. "Mothers support each other like veterans on the front line. They are people who have fought together and in the end have achieved a special dimension of solidarity," she is convinced.

Regrets being an only child
Meloni has been Italy's head of government since October 2022. A few months ago, she separated from her partner, journalist Andrea Giambruno. She would have wanted a second child, but had Ginevra at the age of 39. "By the time I tried to have a second child, there was no more time. I am so sorry that Ginevra is growing up as an only child."

Meloni's government wants to increase the birth rate, but has had little success so far. In 2022, the rate was 1.24 children per woman, the lowest in Europe. In Austria, the average rate at that time was 1.41 children per woman.