Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has told mothers in Italy to return to the office, saying that if she can run the country with a seven-year-old daughter, so can they.
Meloni, who recently returned to work after recovering from a vertigo-inducing ear infection urges mothers to combine motherhood with working.
Meloni said if she and other world leaders including Ursula Von Der Leyen can have a career and children, mothers in Italy can too.
Asked about her party’s promotion of motherhood and the traditional family, Meloni told a three-hour press conference: ‘If I were asked to choose between the role of prime minister and my daughter, Ginevra, I would have no doubts, like any other mother, because motherhood gives something that nothing else can give.’
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But Meloni, who separated from her partner last year after he was recorded asking a colleague for a threesome, said she doesn’t believe that motherhood can or should stop women from holding down a job or pursuing a political career.
She said: ‘Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, has seven children. Roberta Metsola, the president of the European Parliament, has four children. You can do it.’
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