La Gomera made its mark childhood Giorgia Melony. leader far-right Brothers of Italy party and the winner of last Sunday’s election has a close relationship with the Canary Island as he spends the summers on its streets and beaches. this The connection with the archipelago was established by his father, Francesco Meloni. The Italian is known as Franco, an accountant who moved to the Canary Islands in the 1980s after leaving his family when he was just two years old. This is how he describes it in his autobiography ‘I am Giorgia’, published in 2021.
The connection between politics and the Canary Islands is bitter. The father of the person who may have been the first woman to preside over the Italian Government, sailed to the Islands in a ship called the ‘Caballo Loco’. and he never came home. Since then, family contact has only been Two-week visits per year by Giorgia and her sister Arianna They spent time with their father Santiago Beach, according to residents. They had lunch at well-known restaurants and bars on the coast of the municipality of Alajeró and enjoyed spending the afternoons on the beach.
According to residents of the municipality of Gomeran, Francesco Meloni went to the island in search of a new life in a paradise close to Europe, where he lived a “pretty crazy” life. The digital ‘GomeraNoticias’ confirms that the accountant worked at La Gomera between the 80’s and 90’s and for ten years. He was the owner of the well-known and now disappeared Restaurant Marqués de Oristano.an establishment located in the former Casa de Los Ayala and later acquired by Cabildo de La Gomera from another person and forming part of the historic buildings that are now incorporated into this institution and where UNED headquarters are located.
Italian politics experienced joyful moments in the Islands, but also experienced difficult moments that he collected in his autobiography. Just like when he was three years old when he was about to drown when his father left them on a boat with a nanny who couldn’t swim. Meloni has since admitted that one of her biggest fears has been drowning.
never again
this The Canary Islands visits ended when Giorgia was just eleven years old.. The Italian remembers having a “difficult” conversation with his father when he decided not to see him again in his life. And with this episode, Meloni’s connection with La Gomera ended. “She got lost on a boat and left us with her partner. I’ve decided never to see her again,” says the young woman in the book. From then on, the Italian’s only contact with his father was a telegram he sent him for his thirteenth birthday, saying “Happy birthday, Franco.” A message that helps the leader of the extremist Brothers of Italy party understand that he made the right decision.
The father-daughter relationship ended with this impersonal message. The Italian never heard from Francesco again, he didn’t even feel anything when he died of leukemia two years ago. “I didn’t feel hate or discontent. I didn’t feel anything, it was like a television character had died,” Meloni said in several interviews with Italian media during the campaign.
Travels and events in La Gomera, where he lived with his father in the Canary Islands during the summer. He determined the thought that would shape the Italian’s personality and later his political ideology. and his party. Giorgia’s father was a communist and an atheist, which left his mark on family relationships. Neighbors of La Gomera They even state that they have offspring on the island. From an affair with one of the domestic servants he was contracted to while living in the Canary Islands. “Meloni has four half-brothers in La Gomera and she doesn’t even know about it,” they say.
For his current political ideology of refusing to adopt for same-sex couples or single people, the abandonment of the father paid off. Giorgia has explained on more than one occasion that if she defends the traditional family so much, it’s precisely because she grew up with this lack. It has been “very difficult” for Italians to grow up with a father who is no longer there. He even admitted that all the pain the situation caused was what drove him to be “very brave and challenging” in his professional and personal life.
But from his time at La Gomera, he also received positive things like that. Spanish learning still preserved today and for his political career. This was demonstrated on 12 June at a Vox rally in Marbella (Malaga), where he was invited to support the Andalusian campaign. Some of them said, “You say yes or no. Yes to the natural family, no to the LGBT lobbies, yes to the culture of life, no to the abyss of death; yes to the security of the borders, no to mass immigration.” One of the ideas the Italians shouted from the podium in perfect Spanish. Prior to that, Meloni and Santiago Abascal had shared the stage at a roundtable in January 2021 titled ‘The Future of Patriotism: Europe after the US elections’, which they both chaired. The Capitol was provoked by the American Donald Trump. The head of Vox was certainly one of the first to congratulate the Italians on their victory on Sunday, “Meloni has shown the way to a proud, free Europe and sovereign nations, putting the hopes of millions of Europeans in Italy,” he wrote. twitter.
The truth is that family relationships marked many of the steps Giorgia took throughout her life. His mother, Anna Paratore, and his sister continue to be very important people in his daily life. The three lived in a moderately affluent area of Rome until the fire in their apartment forced them to move to the working-class Garbatella neighborhood, where young Giorgia came into contact with politics and to whom she would devote her life. . “My mom was able to start from scratch after the flames, and after the National Alliance disappeared in smoke, I started a party. I saw it at the age of four, why didn’t I get it at 35?”, collects the autobiography.
now 45 years old,The leader of this political formation is preparing to become prime minister after thirty years of political life. and a militancy that started knocking on the doors of the party founded by those who yearned for Mussolini. In 1992, at the age of fifteen, he joined the youth of the fascist Italian Social Movement party. And from that it jumped to the National Alliance. He was appointed chairman of the Brothers of Italy party in 2017, but it was not his first entry into politics. He was appointed minister in 2008 at the age of 31, making him the youngest member of Silvio Berlusconi’s team.
In just a decade, Meloni managed to raise the Brothers of Italy, born from the ashes of the post-fascist Italian Social Movement and later the National Alliance, from 4% of the vote to 4%. 25% last Sunday. His ideas revolve around the rejection of immigration, the defense of the family, the sovereignty of his country, and the defense of the homeland.