I believe that Giorgia Meloni, in her oratory enthusiasm, has the wrong word in hoping that the next head of state will be a patriot. A patriot is someone who loves his homeland to the point of the ultimate sacrifice of his life, for which his figure is necessary in particular historical contexts. Patriots, for example, were the heroes of the Risorgimento: many of them sacrificed their lives.
Today other characteristics are required of the Head of State, those recalled in our Constitutional Charter: moral integrity, the ability to choose the right men to lead the government, balance and determination to dominate politics and not be dominated. from it. These are the same characteristics that have characterized the institutional figure of the Head of State who is about to leave us. The rest is pure rhetoric, a kind of amatriciana politics that doesn’t benefit anyone.