With a government longevity record secured, Giorgia Meloni turns toward Italy's 2027 legislative elections

Giorgia Meloni is turning a record for political endurance into an electoral argument. On Friday, Italy's first woman prime minister is due to surpass Silvio Berlusconi's record for the length of a single government since the end of World War II, after 1,413 days in office.

Arianna Meloni, Giorgia Meloni's sister and political-secretariat chief of the prime minister's Brothers of Italy party, celebrated the milestone online. She described the record as evidence of a government that had brought Italy stability, vision, credibility and authority on the international stage.

The prime minister, 49, now has a platform from which to prepare for the 2027 legislative elections. Thousands of supporters are expected in Bari, in the southern Puglia region. Brothers of Italy has also prepared a roughly 30-page booklet listing what it calls the government's successes in nearly four years.

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1,413 days of work, choices and challenges. A record that is not only a matter of numbers, but evidence of the stability of a government that has given Italy a vision and restored its credibility and authority on the international stage.

The party says more than 1 million additional people are working, unemployment fell to 5.8% in July, personal taxes were cut by 21 billion euros and arrivals of irregular migrants dropped by 80%. The governing coalition, made up of Brothers of Italy, Matteo Salvini's anti-immigration League and the conservative Forza Italia, has adopted about 300 laws and decree-laws, often through confidence votes, according to the AGI news agency.

Many of those measures focus broadly on security. They target migrants, people smugglers, juvenile offenders, rave-party participants and protesters who block roads during demonstrations against layoffs, issues that appeal to the right-wing electorate.

The government's stability has not ended the argument over what it has achieved. Luiss University economics professor Veronica De Santis said stability should serve as a tool rather than an objective, adding, "The objective is growth and we have not seen it." She criticized the lack of a long-term economic vision as government forecasts projected GDP growth of 0.6% in 2026. Italian newspapers have offered varied assessments, with the left-leaning La Repubblica acknowledging that the government had stabilized public finances while the broader debate centers on realism or inertia.

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Stability is a tool, not an objective. The objective is growth and we have not seen it.