{"id":40218,"date":"2025-10-19T19:57:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T17:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/2025\/10\/19\/meloni-government-becomes-the-third-longest-serving-in-italys-history\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T19:57:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T17:57:02","slug":"meloni-government-becomes-the-third-longest-serving-in-italys-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/2025\/10\/19\/meloni-government-becomes-the-third-longest-serving-in-italys-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Meloni government becomes the third longest serving in Italy&#8217;s history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<br \/><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Meloni overtakes Craxi to reach new milestone as government marks three years in office this week<\/strong>.<\/h2>\n<p>Italy&#8217;s right-wing coalition led by prime minister Giorgia Meloni on Sunday became the third longest-serving government in the 79-year history of the Italian republic.<\/p>\n<p>Meloni&#8217;s coalition has clocked up 1,094 days since taking office in Palazzo Chigi on 22 October 2022, just ahead of the\u00a0first Bettino Craxi government which lasted for 1,093 days, from 4 August 1983 until 1 August 1986.<\/p>\n<p>Leader of the right-wing Fratelli d&#8217;Italia, Meloni shares power with her coalition partners, deputy premiers Matteo Salvini and Antonio Tajani, respectively leaders of the right-wing Lega and centre-right Forza Italia.<\/p>\n<p>As the government prepares to mark three years in office this week, Meloni claims that the coalition remains united, noting that Italy has had 68 governments since 1946.<\/p>\n<p>Topping the ranking of Italy&#8217;s longest-lived executives is Silvio Berlusconi with his second government, which served for 1,412 days, from 11 June 2001 to 23 April 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Berlusconi also holds second place in the ranking, with his fourth executive holding power for 1,287 days, from 8 May 2008 to 16 November 2011.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo credit: Alessia Pierdomenico \/ Shutterstock.com<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meloni overtakes Craxi to reach new milestone as government marks three years in office this week. Italy&#8217;s right-wing coalition led by prime minister Giorgia Meloni on Sunday became the third longest-serving government in the 79-year history of the Italian republic. Meloni&#8217;s coalition has clocked up 1,094 days since taking office in Palazzo Chigi on 22<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[18415,6562,2800,18417,199,18418],"class_list":["post-40218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eventi","tag-government","tag-history","tag-italys","tag-longest","tag-meloni","tag-serving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}