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Italy's revolving-door governments — the numbers behind the instability reut.rs/4i3jkez

reut.rsItaly's revolving-door governments — the numbers behind the instabilityPrime Minister Giorgia Meloni is due to set a record as leading Italy's longest-serving administration on September 4. Yet the country's revolving-door cabinets have often masked a more stable political system than first meets the eye.

31/8/26, 7:45 am6 reposts16 likes

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31 Aug

Reuters misreads Italy. Meloni has been in power for nearly 4 years, not 2, with zero structural reforms, no constitutional modernizations, and no real impact on systemic crime or bureaucracy. "Revolving doors" are a convenient scapegoat for a state frozen in the 1800s.

2k115.bsky.social

@2k115.bsky.social

31 Aug

Expecting modern structural evolution while backing traditional conservative architects is a fundamental contradiction. Real systemic risk isn't government turnover—it's expecting 21st-century economic reform from an ideology built on preserving obsolete infrastructure.