Giorgia Meloni on Why ‘Meritocracy’ Enrages the Left

Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from Giorgia Meloni’s Giorgia’s Vision (in conversation with Alessandro Sallusti). It is reprinted here with permission.

Fairy tales aren’t real life. There are no fairies that can make you beautiful by waving a magic wand, nor are there princes who rouse you from sleep with a kiss. In real life, you have to pull yourself out of your own circumstances. That’s what I’ve always believed and that’s what I’ve always done — with the same determination I now bring to delivering what I promised Italians. And I owe it to them — because they’re the ones who made it happen, not me. You see, when I became prime minister, I wasn’t struck by the fact that many people were happy, but that they got so emotional. “Why are you all crying?” I asked with a mix of surprise and embarrassment. I even joked, “I haven’t even started yet and you’re already crying?”

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Giorgia Meloni

Giorgia Meloni is the prime minister of Italy.

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Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from Giorgia Meloni’s Giorgia’s Vision (in conversation with Alessandro Sallusti). It is reprinted here with permission.

Fairy tales aren’t real life. There are no fairies that can make you beautiful by waving a magic wand, nor are there princes who rouse you from sleep with a kiss. In real life, you have to pull yourself out of your own circumstances. That’s what I’ve always believed and that’s what I’ve always done — with the same determination I now bring to delivering what I promised Italians. And I owe it to them — because they’re the ones who made it happen, not me. You see, when I became prime minister, I wasn’t struck by the fact that many people were happy, but that they got so emotional. “Why are you all crying?” I asked with a mix of surprise and embarrassment. I even joked, “I haven’t even started yet and you’re already crying?”