Giorgia Meloni will turn down the chance to live in the prime minister’s opulent residence in Rome after being elected Italy’s first female prime minister because it is not a place to bring up her six-year-old daughter, her partner has said.
“Do you think we would raise a six-year-old boy in a palace like Versailles?” said Andrea Giambruno, 41. “We already have a house.”
Meloni, 45, will stay at his home in Mostacciano, a suburb of the capital, and will not move to the 16th-century Palazzo Chigi in the heart of the city, which prime ministers usually use as an office and residence .
Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party led a right-wing coalition to a comfortable victory in Italy’s general election on Sunday and is in talks with its allies.