Italy’s first female prime minister sworn in at head of far-right coalition

Italy has formally sworn in its first female leader, Giorgia Meloni, at the head of the country’s most far-right coalition. At the ceremony, which took place on Saturday at Quirinal Palace in Rome, Meloni took her oath, swearing to ‘to be loyal to the republic, to faithfully respect its constitution, its laws and to exercise my role in the exclusive interest of the nation’.