Italy’s PM Giorgia Meloni named ‘man of the year’ by newspaper
Italy’s PM Giorgia Meloni named ‘man of the year’ by newspaper
Italy’s first female Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni has been named the “man of the year” by a right-wing newspaper. The article has not gone down well with women’s rights activists in Italy, who accused Meloni of not doing enough to protect women from violence.
With the title ‘Man of the Year’, the article in Libero stated that Giorgia Meloni had won “the war of the sexes” in Italy and had “not only broken the glass ceiling, she dissolved it”.
The article appeared in the newspaper Libero.
The article stated that “in excessive diversity, we have reversed gender. In times of war, we went on to choose someone who has shown she knows how to fight.
“Giorgia Meloni for Libero is ‘man of the year’ because above everything she has cancelled the war of the sexes by winning it, by thinking differently, being divergent, overcoming the arrogance of men and the defeatism of women. She has not only broken the glass ceiling, she has dissolved it,” the article further read.
But, the article was not well received by Italy’s opposition parties, who accused Meloni of “abandoning Italian women”
As per Elly Schlein, secretary of the centre-left Democratic Party, today a right-wing newspaper is explaining to them that politics and power are for men.
He doesn’t think his aspiration as a politician is to become ‘man of the year’. On the contrary, he thinks this is a surrender,” Schlein was quoted as saying to the media.
Another MP, Elisabetta Piccolotti, described the newspaper article as “an affirmation of male superiority” and called on Meloni to reject it.
Piccolotti wrote in social media Facebook that at this point, Prime Minister, please clarify: are you a woman, are you a man or are you non-binary?”
However, Gennaro Sangiuliano, the culture minister in Meloni’s government and a former deputy director of Libero, told reporters that the title ‘Man of the Year’ was well-deserved.
Meloni has so far not commented on the Libero article.
News Edit K.V.Raman
