[14] On 14 October, Lorenzo Fontana, who is widely seen as an ultraconservative for his long-time anti-abortion and anti-LGBT views,[15] was elected President of the Chamber of Deputies for the League.

[22][23] Additionally, Berlusconi's views of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and Vladimir Putin, with whom he said he was rekindling their friendship and claimed to have received vodka as a gift and exchanged letters,[24][25] came to light a few days later, when a recording of a private conversation between him and MPs from his party was leaked.

"[28][29] During talks with President Sergio Mattarella on 20 October, delegates from the Democratic Party, the Five Star Movement, Action – Italia Viva, For the Autonomies, and various sub-groups within the Mixed Group stated they would not back a Meloni-led government during confidence votes.

[33] Galeazzo Bignami, one of the chosen deputy ministers,[34][35] caused controversy and garnered international attention as a 2005 photo of him with a Nazi armband became public.

[38] Meloni thanked several Italian women, notably including Tina Anselmi, Samantha Cristoforetti, Grazia Deledda, Oriana Fallaci, Nilde Iotti, Rita Levi-Montalcini, and Maria Montessori, who she said, "with the boards of their own examples, built the ladder that today allows me to climb and break the heavy glass ceiling placed over our heads.