Giorgia Meloni was born in Rome in 1977. Politically active since her teenage years, she became a professional journalist at 29 and was elected to Parliament for the first time. She holds the record as the youngest minister in the history of the Italian Republic: in 2008, at 31, she became the Minister of Youth. On December 21, 2012, she founded Fratelli d'Italia, of which she is the national president. Since 2020, she has been the president of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR Party), one of the leading political groups in Europe. On October 22, 2022, she was sworn in by the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, as Prime Minister. She is the first woman in Italy's history to hold this position.