A month after the death of party founder and former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian party Forza Italia elected a new leader on Saturday. Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, long the number two of the party, will take over the interim presidency until the next regular party congress next year. He must protect the Italian governing party from insignificance after the death of party icon Berlusconi.
Before his election, the deputies approved Tajani’s proposal to change the party leader’s title from “President” to “National Secretary” henceforth. “It is no longer possible to have a chairman for our movement. Because for us there is only one president,” Tajani said. He was confident: “We want to be the center, the cornerstone of the Italian political system.” The leader of the European People’s Party (EPP), Manfred Weber, also attended the party meeting.
Antonio Tajani has long been a professional politician. He was a member of the European Commission from 2008 to 2014 and President of the European Parliament from 2017 to 2019. He was elected as a member of the Italian Parliament for the first time in the 2022 parliamentary elections. interview in March 2019 stated that Mussolini had “done positive things as well”, namely “roads, to build bridges, buildings, sports facilities”.
Forza Italy still the third strongest force
Berlusconi was and still is the face of the party. According to observers, the question arises how long the party has a future without him. The party has been losing voters and MPs for years. Only Berlusconi held them together thanks to his charisma and the memory of previous successes. Tajani faces the task of leading the party to the party congress for the 2024 European elections and saving it from possible collapse.
Despite illness and advanced age, early Italian prime minister and media mogul Berlusconi refused to establish his successor in the party leadership until his death a month ago. As of October 2022, Forza Italia is the third strongest force in Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s right-wing governing coalition. (km/sda/dpa)
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