The Meloni government reaches 1,413 days and becomes the longest-serving in the Republic's history
As of September 4, the executive sworn in on October 22, 2022 surpasses the second Berlusconi government by one day. Fratelli d'Italia celebrates at the port of Bari with a booklet of claims that the newspaper reports as partisan figures.
The count is arithmetic and closes today. On September 3 the government led by Giorgia Meloni had equaled the second Berlusconi government, which remained in office 1,412 days between June 11, 2001 and April 23, 2005; on September 4 it reaches 1,413 days from the swearing-in of October 22, 2022 and becomes the longest-serving in the history of the Republic. This is reported by the ANSA agency, and the data is also picked up by la Repubblica in its coverage of the celebration preparations. Two distinct records accompany the prime minister: she is the first woman to lead Palazzo Chigi and the head of government who has remained longest at the helm of the same executive.
The political backdrop is a party rally. Fratelli d’Italia has organized an event for today at the port of Bari, where organizers expect around ten thousand people; Meloni’s address is scheduled for around 7 p.m. For the occasion the party has prepared a video roughly thirty seconds long and a 28-page booklet.
«un evento storico, che ci rende orgogliosi ma anche consapevoli di questa importante responsabilità» — Michele Picaro, Member of the European Parliament and provincial coordinator of Fratelli d’Italia in Bari
The figures in the booklet, and where they come from
The booklet distributed in Bari gathers the results the party attributes to four years of government. The news of its content currently comes from a single source (the ANSA agency, which describes the Fratelli d’Italia document in two successive dispatches); no independent confirmation is available. The figures that follow, therefore, are not verified by this newspaper: they are claims made by a party, reported as such.
| Indicator claimed in the booklet | Figure |
|---|---|
| Employment rate | 62.9% (described as a historic peak) |
| Overall unemployment | 5.7% |
| Youth unemployment | 18.4% (described as a low) |
| Irpef and tax wedge cut | over 21 billion euros |
| Spread, current year | −65.6% |
| Landings, first seven months | −80% |
| Repatriations, 2025 vs 2021 | +60% |
| National Health Fund 2026 | +13.49% |
| School dropout rate | from 11.5% to 7.3% |
Added to these, in the material picked up by la Repubblica, is the figure of 1,305,000 new stable jobs in 1,413 days: this too is a figure attributed to the party. The list is an electoral document, and should be read for what it is — the selection of favorable indicators made by those in government — not as a neutral accounting.
What remains open
The longevity record does not close any of the ongoing political fronts. The files on the electoral law, the economic budget, energy, and military spending remain open: these are the four chapters that ANSA lists as still to be settled at the moment the government reaches the record.
What we do not know
We do not know how many people will actually take part in the Bari rally: the figure of ten thousand is the organizers’ expectation, not a count. We do not know the content of the address scheduled for the evening. We do not have, in the available excerpts, the methodology by which the party built the percentages in the booklet — reference period, statistical source, comparison baseline — and without that none of the listed figures is verifiable.
The one ascertainable fact remains, and does not depend on propaganda: since the swearing-in of October 22, 2022, 1,413 days have passed, one more than the previous record in the Republic’s history.
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