Wednesday 28 September 2022 07:38 PM Father of Italy's next PM was jailed for drug smuggling in Spain, it emerges trends now
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The late father of the woman set to become Italy’s next PM was sentenced to nine years in prison in Spain for drug trafficking, Majorcan press have revealed.
Far-right leader Giorgia Meloni’s dad Francesco abandoned his family when she was just two years old to move to the Canary Islands.
The 45-year-old, who is forming a coalition with Matteo Salvini and Silvio Berlusconi following her election success on Sunday, revealed in her 2021 autobiography ‘I Am Giorgia’ she stopped seeing him when she was 11.
She said her last contact with the accountant-turned-restaurant owner before he died two years ago of leukaemia was a birthday telegram he sent her when she was 13.
Giorgia Meloni’s dad Francesco abandoned his family when she was just two years old to move to the Canary Islands
Today/yesterday (WED) respected Majorcan newspaper Diario de Mallorca revealed he was handed a nine-year jail sentence in September 1996
