Overview
- The government reached 1,413 uninterrupted days on Thursday, surpassing Silvio Berlusconi’s postwar benchmark and marking the longest single run for an Italian administration since World War II.
- Meloni’s party plans a large pre-election rally in Bari to celebrate the milestone and use stability as a campaign argument for the 2027 contest.
- A failed justice-reform referendum this year has weakened the government’s reform claim by showing voters an alternative majority and casting doubt on delivery of the coalition’s flagship pledges.
- The coalition is pressing a controversial electoral-law overhaul that would make representation fully proportional while guaranteeing a majority to any bloc that wins over 42% of the vote, a change critics say would shape the next parliament to the ruling bloc’s advantage.
- Right-wing challenger Roberto Vannacci’s new party polls at about 7%, creating a credible risk of drawing conservative voters away from Meloni and complicating her path to a fresh mandate even as the government cites job gains, lower unemployment and a raised international profile.