Meloni leaves Giambruno: because it’s an opportunity

The news of the separation between the Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and her partner, the journalist Andrea Giambruno, given by the Premier herself via social media, does not take us by surprise: in Italy separations and divorces have been growing since the pandemic (in 2021 +22.5% compared to the previous year, Istat data).
Many are debating on social media the reasons for the separation, the phrases from Giambruno’s program revealed by Striscia La Notizia last night, on the timing of the end of the relationship (“Our paths have divided some time ago, and the time has come to take note of it”, writes Meloni in the post on IG)

Instead, here we take note and do not discuss the profound reasons that lead two people to take different paths: everyone has the right to live their love life as they want.

But in this case it is the Premier, and therefore every private communication becomes public. A Premier, let’s remember, that has always reiterated the values ​​of the “traditional family”, together with the Minister for the Family Eugenia Roccella. But families, as Istat photographs, often “break up”. And this is not only proof that the “traditional family” has no longer existed for a long time, but that the “family belongs to everyone”, as Michela Murgia taught us, and that “We must leave ourselves for the good of our children”, as Fabio Volo explained to us, for example. It is also the admission of having adopted, for too long and like many other conservative exponents, double standards: Italians must have children (preferably two or more) and possibly have a single family model, and those who separate it’s sad (see lo Esselunga spot and the fishing of discord).

But then, if it happens to her, the rules change. You can not be married, you can have fewer than two children, you can separate, without having to give explanations to anyone. And, let’s be clear, for us it is sacrosanct. But then we wonder if this new life as a single mother might not illuminate greater openness towards all types of families. Where there are also two mothers and two fathers, or a single parent, or a grandparent to take their place. His concern now is all for his daughter Ginevra, and rightly so. The interests of children are always the ones to be given priority. From this newspaper, where many campaigns for rights have started, we hope that, from now on, the Premier’s political outlook on all types of families will also change.