So now Italy would deserve an inexperienced head of government just because Giorgia Meloni has been in charge for four years. Bloomberg just crowned Silvia Salis, mayor of Genoa, as anti-Meloni. That’s, with all due respect, close to ridiculous.

Salis (40 years old, center-left) is simply not the right person for the job. She might be able to win elections, but I’m not sure – to say the least – whether she can run a G7 country. She’s not experienced. Nobody knows what she thinks. And, moreover, she’s backed by Matteo Renzi, the most Machiavellic politician Italy has had since ages, doing business with people like Mohamed Bin Salman and floating from left to right at his pleasure. With his 2%, he barely makes it to Parliament; but, nevertheless, ends being decisive all the times. Salis might be his horse to remain in the game, and that wouldn’t be good for the country.

Italy needs strong reforms (justice, labor market, healthcare, above all) which might only be pursued by a leader with knowledge of the matters and of the deep state, whose interest is often not changing anything. Meloni herself has a good and long cursus honorum: young Salis would be manipulated by her mentors, if not by the apparatus.

Italy should not resign itself to have an inexperienced leader in charge. The centre-left should build, instead, a strong candidature alternative to Meloni. Otherwise, we’ll be facing another five years of nothing.