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· collected 2026-09-04 · by AFP
Giorgia Meloni, Italy's first female leader, is celebrating her government becoming the longest-lasting in post-war history. The far-right government has stayed in power for 1,413 days, despite crises within other coalition parties. A rally in Bari is expected to draw thousands of supporters, while protesters demonstrate nearby. The government claims credit for reducing personal income taxes by €21 billion and increasing employment by over a million people.
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Giorgia Meloni's government in Italy has become the longest-serving postwar administration, surpassing Silvio Berlusconi's record by one day after 1,413 days in office. Prime Minister Meloni marked this milestone with a rally in Bari, where she highlighted her government's stability and achievements, including financial discipline and a reputation for being a steady presence on the international stage. Italy has had 68 governments in 80 years, but Meloni's right-wing coalition has managed to avoid crises and defections that have toppled previous administrations. The event was also seen as an election rally ahead of the 2027 vote, with Meloni expected to lead her coalition into the campaign. Critics argue that Italy's longstanding problems, including weak productivity growth and low wages, remain largely unresolved under Meloni's government.
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Giorgia Meloni on Friday (September 4, 2026) celebrates her hard-right government becoming the longest-lasting in Italy's postwar history, with a rally in Bari expected to draw thousands of supporters, while protesters demonstrate nearby.
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Italy's first leader will have been in charge of the same administration for 1,413 days — one more than billionaire media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi managed — despite crises within the other parties in her governing coalition.
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Italy has had 68 governments in 80 years.
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Past governments were toppled by crises and defections which Ms. Meloni has so far managed to avoid.
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Some 80 coaches will transport supporters to the capital of the southern Puglia region for a shindig thrown by Ms. Meloni's far-right Brothers of Italy (FdI) party, in an area of the port that can host up to 10,000 people, organisers say.
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Ms. Meloni will address the crowds in the early evening, with her deputy Prime Ministers Matteo Salvini and Antonio Tajani expected to appear via video link for an event that effectively doubles as an election rally ahead of the 2027 vote.
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Under the official slogan "Il Governo piu stabile, l'Italia piu forte" ("The Most Stable Government, the Strongest Italy"), festivities will kick off with traditional Puglian light shows and DJ sets.
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Speeches will focus on the government's achievements in just under four years in power, from over one million extra people in employment to a 21-billion-euro ($24-billion) reduction in personal income taxes.
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Debt-laden Italy's fiscal stability has greatly improved — although critics say the stability has failed to translate into growth.
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"Have wages increased?
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Petrol costs more, job insecurity has increased, people are retiring less and the healthcare system is functioning less effectively," Maurizio Landini, head of the CGIL trade union, said ahead of the party.
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Security, migration
Ms. Meloni says Rome's influence on the world stage has grown, despite an early friendship with U.S. President Donald Trump falling spectacularly apart after she chastised him for attacking the pope.
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All together her coalition — which includes the far-right, anti-immigrant League and right-wing Forza Italia — has passed some 300 laws and decrees, the majority tackling "security" threats, from petty criminals to ravers and climate protesters.
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The Brothers of Italy party, which has neo-Fascist roots, won the 2022 election on a pledge to tackle illegal migration and boasts that its policies have cut migrant arrivals by 80 percent.
But listing accomplishments will not be enough.
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Ms. Meloni "will also have to say how she intends to use these last months ahead of the vote -- a very interesting question", Flavia Perina, an editorialist with La Stampa daily, told a press conference in Rome on Thursday.
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As food trucks serve Bari's traditional "Assassin Spaghetti" — pasta with a spicy, smoky sauce — to the party goers, Meloni's critics will be gathering across the city's historic centre for an anti-government demonstration.
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Its organizers accuse the government of creating a "war and weapons economy" and a "police state" and of fuelling a climate of hate against migrants.
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Such a climate has favoured the rise of a challenger not invited to the celebrations — a former general with a party even further to the far right than Ms. Meloni, which on its stellar rise has overtaken both the League and Forza Italia in the polls.
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