Outgoing industry minister Giancarlo
Giorgetti is the League's pick for economy minister in the
likely new government of Brothers of Italy (FdI) leader Giorgia
Meloni, League leader Matteo Salvini said Friday.
Salvini said it was "indisputable" that the League would
indicate Giorgetti's name to Meloni when she picks her new
cabinet. She is expected to accept Giorgetti in the key post.,
having already said he would be an "excellent" economy minister.
Giorgetti, 55, who became deputy League leader in 2016, has won
plaudits for his work as industry minister in outgoing Premier
Mario Draghi's executive.
Italia media say he is not formally among the League's quota of
candidates for the new government but is considered a
technocrat.
Giorgetti is close to the League governors who govern many
Italian regions, especially in the richer north of the country,
and is seen as being a rival to Salvini, whose position has been
weakened by the party's poor performance in the September 25
general election.
The League's vote, largely cannibalised by Meloni's FdI, fell
from 34% in European elections in 2019 to just 9% in last
month's general election.
The League is the second biggest party in the centre right
coalition after FdI, which got 26%, and just ahead of three-time
former premier and media magnate Silvio Berlusconi's centre
right Forza Italia (FI) party, which got 8% as many of its
voters also migrated to Meloni.
Giorgetti will be faced with the toughest policy decisions for
the new government amid an energy emergency due to the Ukraine
war, cost of living crisis and looming recession.
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