The hard-right leader Georgia Meloni won the election campaign with a promise to restrict migrant ships and added support to family values and anti-LGBTQ themes. Now she has been sworn in as Italy's first female Prime Minister. She has also looked to form an alliance between far-right and centre-right parties to create the most stabilised government in Italy that people have seen in decades with the involvement of his won brother as Italy's chief. Meloni’s victory in the parliamentary’s election last month has clearly indicated the disappearance of the allure of nationalism in Italy but her pledge to take the nation on the hard-right way still highlighted many uncertainties for the future.

The new government has made up a coalition government with two other right-wing leaders. The first leader is Matteo Salvini, a former interior minister who became the darling of the hard right in 2018 when he moved from his party, the League, once a northern secessionist party, into a nationalist force. The other is Silvio Berlusconi, the former Italian Prime Minister from the centre-right wing widely recognized for his “bunga bunga” sex scandals with young women.  Both of these coalition government partners have already remarked appraisal publicly about Russian President Vladimir Putin for the Kyiv invasion, which has certainly raised questions on their engagement with the present government. Before the start of the consultation for forming a new government - secretly recorded audio was circulated in which Berlusconi appeared to blame Vladimir Putin’s army invasion at Kyiv’s (Ukraine) door and showed off for reorganized relationships with the Russian leader. 

“I am thanking Putin for his gift of twenty bottles of Vodka and a sweet letter on my birthday. In return, I responded to Putin with more than forty Lambrusco bottles,” shared by Berlusconi in the audio clip released by Italian news agency LaPresse on Tuesday. An 88-years old billionaire and media magnate was telling these words to Forza Italia Party members at the time. A party spokesperson has denied Berlusconi's statement circulated publicly for his positive relationship with Putin to the Parliamentarians “an old story related happened many years ago”. However, Berlusconi defended his statement in an interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera on Thursday by saying that adverse reports circulated with political opposition intent to put down his image among the public. 

Meloni’s retaliation for the circulated audio comments, who is a strong supporter of Ukraine as it battles the Russian invasion, has clearly notified where she and the coalition will stand once in power. She told, “ I always intended to run a government with a decisive and straightforward foreign policy. However, Italy is the strongest part of Europe and the Atlantic Alliance. Anyone who disagreed with this cornerstone will never be a part of this government. Under our governance, Italy will never become a weak link to the West.”

But the liberals within Italy and European Union are feared of a U-turn taken for promises made for the coalition government may mean a lot for the country and its future while conservative constituents look to Meloni, a strong-arm lady politician who can lead the country out of the crisis in the middle of rising energy prices and high youth unemployment.

Political science professor Lorenzo De Sio of the Luiss Guido Carli University has explained that he has fair data on votes contribution to Meloni during the parliamentary election held last month, where centre-right has mostly voted for her. In contrast, no vote contribution has been seen from radical right-wing voters. “I would tell that the objective of Meloni must be the launch of the new Italian conservatism in the 21st century. She might move on with some previous connection to the post-fascist-legacy but it is not the core of her political platform for now.” the professor explained to us on Monday.