Politics’ Christmas greetings to Italians

After the congratulations of Christmas Eve, i leader politicI also did those in Christmas day. Like the 24th, almost always via social. Starting from the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni. No nativity scene, nor messages on Christian values ​​and identity, but a simple post that reads: “Merry Christmas!”. The wish is accompanied by a photograph of him.

The Prime Minister is clearly at home, she is smiling and wearing a Christmas sweater – red with white ‘frames’ – on which is written: “To you and your family too”, the classic phrase with which greetings are reciprocated during the holidays. In his hand he holds a cup of coffee, also the red one, and behind him you can see a very decorated tree.

Merry Christmas! pic.twitter.com/q7PS7dkvIU

— Giorgia Meloni (@GiorgiaMeloni) December 25, 2025

Deputy Prime Ministers Antonio Tajani and Matteo Salvini

“May this Christmas be an opportunity to rediscover the sacredness of life, respect for others, the freedom that builds dialogue and the peace that renews. Best wishes for a Holy Christmas!”, writes the vice prime minister and foreign minister, Antonio Tajani, in a post accompanied by an image of the Nativity of the Lord. The other deputy prime minister, Matteo Salvini, published two posts. In the first, which consists of a video of just 40 seconds, he has a blue jacket and speaks with a tree and a bookcase in the background. He says he is “happy because after five years of trials, travel and testimonies, it is the first Christmas I can celebrate with my family, no longer as a suspect or accusedbut as an acquitted, free Italian, because – he underlines – I defended the security, borders and dignity of my country”. The minister and leader of the League then sends “many, many and many best wishes for serenity, health, success, peace for the world around us”.

Merry Holy Christmas to all of you, Friends. pic.twitter.com/LNLjiC0KYg

— Matteo Salvini (@matteosalvinimi) December 25, 2025

In the second post, however, he is outside and explains that he is joining his parents for lunch. “Merry Christmas to almost everyone, because at Christmas we should be better. But today there is someone who is less good than others and in these minutes an act of violence and gratuitous institutional malice is underway by the Italian State towards a family, a mother, a father and three children”, he states in the video selfie, returning to the case of the family in the woods.

And he adds: “Someone, in the province of L’Aquilain these minutes he is divided, he is far away because the father of the children in the forest had two and a half hours to spend with his family this morning, but then that’s it, no Christmas lunch because he didn’t deserve it. This is how the judges of the L’Aquila court and the social workers chose. For me it’s a shame. Can I say this on a day of celebration, if not for everyone, then for many? Separating those three children from their mother and father even on Christmas Day is an act of violence, arrogance, gratuitous malice. In my opinion it is shameful and uncommentable.” “Children do not belong to the State but to the heart, to the affection of their mother and father. So Merry Christmas to everyone but, gentlemen judges, put a hand on your conscience because at least on Christmas Day you could treat yourself to an act of generosity and respect. A hug to that dad, that mom and those children. I tell them: you are not alone and we will not have peace until you return to being a family”, concludes Salvini.

Nicola Fratoianni

“Today, all over the world, millions of people celebrate the birth of a marginalized child born in poverty. For those who believe it is a moment of profound emotion, for those who do not believe it is the evening that more than any other speaks of family, affection, life, hopes. It is impossible for me, after the year we have lived through, not to think of Palestine. In Gaza, where Israeli bombings have killed tens of thousands of people, where a third of the dead are children. In the West Bank, where the occupation continues to kill, humiliate and torment the Palestinian people.”

Fratoianni thinks of Palestine, Salvini of the family in the woods, Calenda doesn’t feel like celebrating: all the Christmas wishes from political leaders on social mediahttps://t.co/eDhgG56TI5

— Open (@Open_gol) December 25, 2025

And he continues: “The genocide underway in recent years will remain as an indelible stain for the powerful of the world, who even in these days call the continuation of the war ‘peace’, while men, women and children die of cold during these Christmas hours in tent cities or remain buried under the rubble where they seek shelter. But 2025 was also the year of mobilization: packed squares against the genocide, a true, broad and popular solidarity, for the freedom of a people Even today, on this Christmas Eve, let us not stop dedicating our minds and hearts to Gaza and to a free Palestine because standing on the side of the oppressed is a choice that concerns all of us.

Matteo Renzi

Like Meloni, Matteo Renzi also shows up again and does so, also in this case like the prime minister, with a simple post with a photograph next to his wife, at home and with a tree behind him: “Merry Christmas from Agnese and me, Best wishes!”, is the phrase that accompanies the shot.

Merry Christmas from Agnese and me. Congratulations! pic.twitter.com/DF6zg6cjE2

— Matteo Renzi (@matteorenzi) December 25, 2025

Carlo Calenda

On the 24th he remained silent. On Christmas, he explains: “Being pressured by my social media manager to make a Christmas post, between the alternative Santanché with a hat; Conte with the elves; Renzi quoting the Bible and Salvini wishing the world a happy birthday (let’s make the conjurations), I opt for a classic from the 80s. Merry Christmas”. Attached to the post is a famous scene from the film ‘Christmas Vacation’ by Carlo Vanzina, from 1983. It is the moment in which the actor Riccardo Garrone says: “We’ve gotten the fuck out of this Christmas too.”

Being pressured by my social media manager to make a Christmas post, between Santanchè alternative with hat; Count with the elves; Renzi quoting the Bible and Salvini wishing the world a happy birthday (let’s pray), I opt for a classic from the 80s.

Merry Christmas. pic.twitter.com/bFj5l9bE00

— Carlo Calenda (@CarloCalenda) December 25, 2025

The Quirinal

Finally, while awaiting the traditional end-of-year speech by President Sergio Mattarella, the Quirinale wishes Italians a Merry Christmas from its accounts with a very short institutional video, precisely 23 seconds long, in which we see a maxi star – the traditional symbol of Christmas, but also of the Republic – which stands out, illuminated, in the main square dominated by the Torrino with its flags. Immediately afterwards, a little girl greeting a Cuirassier, who in turn breaks the command of immobility for a moment and returns the gesture. And then the details of the Nativity scene, the zoom on the majestic Christmas tree at the Vetrata, complete with a personalized bauble with the insignia of the Presidency of the Republic.

Merry Christmas wishes pic.twitter.com/gqrn9c4uiv

— Quirinale (@Quirinale) December 24, 2025