Lula will meet Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s right-wing prime minister

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT), who has been traveling through Italy and France since Monday night (19), will have an audience with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Wednesday afternoon (21). The meeting with the right-wing leadership was not foreseen in the official agenda and was scheduled this Tuesday (20).

Initially, interlocutors linked to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that there was an “agenda incompatibility”, since Lula will also have a meeting with Pope Francisco, with President Sergio Mattarella and with the mayor of Rome, Roberto Gualtieri, during his stay in Italy.

However, in the middle of the first day of commitments, Itamaraty confirmed the meeting with Meloni. “On the occasion of his official visit to Italy and the Vatican, from the 20th to the 22nd of June, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will meet with the Prime Minister of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, on the afternoon of the 21st”, said the ministry. in note.

Giorgia Meloni is one of the leaders of Fratelli D’Itália, a right-wing party that formed a coalition with Forza Italia, founded by the late former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, and the League, which sympathizes with conservatism. The prime minister is the first woman to hold the position, and the coalition was the winner of the parliamentary elections, with Fratelli D’Itália being the most voted in the Italian congress.