Not even time to celebrate Gennaro Sangiuliano’s resignation, that the left already has to take a step backwards. There is no way to say that the Meloni government is coming out with broken bones: the executive led by Fratelli d’Italia has already found its replacement. Alessandro Giuli will be her replacement, a journalist and public figure who has collaborated with various newspapers and is currently president of the MAXXI Foundation. The speed with which the executive has appointed the replacement is a sign of great stability, of great political solidity.
Sangiuliano, in his letter of resignation addressed to Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, explained that “after having pondered for a long time, in painful days filled with hatred towards me by a certain political media system, I have decided to irrevocably tender my resignation as Minister of Culture”. Sangiuliano thanked Meloni ‘for having decisively defended me, for having already rejected an initial request to resign, and for the affection that you have once again shown me. But,’ he added, ‘I consider it necessary for the institutions and for myself to resign’.
For her part, Prime Minister Meloni thanked ‘sincerely Gennaro Sangiuliano, a capable person and an honest man, for the extraordinary work he has done so far, which has enabled the Italian government to achieve important results in relaunching and enhancing Italy’s great cultural heritage, even beyond its borders‘. Indeed, his ministry has achieved many objectives, ‘starting with putting an end to the all-Italian disgrace of museums and cultural sites being closed during holiday periods, and having increased the number of museum visitors (22 per cent more) and museum takings (33 per cent more) in just one year,’ the minister wrote. In December, Palazzo Citterio, purchased by the ministry in the early 1970s and then left unused for decades, will open in Milan. Large projects are well underway,’ he added, ‘such as the former Albergo dei Poveri in Naples, the expansion of the Uffizi in other locations, and the investment for the Venice Biennale. For the first time in Italy, major exhibitions have been organised on authors and historical figures that the Left had ignored for ideological reasons. I am also aware of having touched a sensitive nerve and of having attracted a lot of enmity by choosing to review the system of contributions to the cinema, seeking more efficiency and less waste’.
For Giorgia Meloni, the new minister Giuli, whose swearing-in ceremony took place at 7 p.m. today, ‘will continue the action of relaunching national culture, consolidating that discontinuity with the past that the Italians have asked of us and that we have initiated from our inauguration to today‘. The appointment, therefore, is a great sign of stability: the work of the Meloni government goes beyond matters of gossip. There is no doubt, therefore, that the left has once again been scalded by the strong determination of a government that knows how to work seriously for the Italians.
