League and the Five Star Movement (M5S) formed a coalition government led by the independent university professor Giuseppe Conte. The government was sworn in on 5 September 2019. Fontana was appointed Minister of Family and Minister for Disabilities. In August 2018, Fontana called for the repeal of the 1993 Mancino Law, which criminalises hate speech, saying the law was being used by globalists to promote "anti-Italian racism". In March 2019, he helped organize the anti-gay, anti-feminist, and anti-abortion World Congress of Families in Verona, to the point of authorizing the use of the logo of Conte's administrative office in order to promote the event without the prime minister's permission. On 10 July 2019, Fontana was appointed Italy's Minister of European Affairs. In August 2019, the League filed a motion of no confidence in the coalition government and the cabinet collapsed. President of the Chamber of Deputies After the 2022 Italian general election, which saw a clear victory of the centre-right coalition able of winning an absolute majority both in the Chamber and the Senate of the Republic, Fontana was re-elected to the Chamber for the single-member constituency of Verona, gaining 132,554 votes. On 14 October, Fontana was elected President of the Chamber of Deputies in the fourth round with 222 votes out of 400. In his inauguration speech, Fontana thanked President Sergio Mattarella and Pope Francis for their role in Italy's life and quoted several Catholic personalities, such as Saint Thomas Aquinas and Blessed Carlo Acutis. Political views Fontana is widely considered an ultraconservative. He calls himself a "crusader" who fights against abortion, euthanasia, same-sex civil unions, and stepchild adoption, which he considers as a "weakening of the family". He is also against "pro-LGBT" sexual education, stating that Vladimir Putin's Russia "is the reference for those who believe in a nationalist model of society". Fontana is an admirer of Putin, who described as a light for the Western world. On 2 June 2018, the day after becoming minister, he added that "gay families do not exist", labelling them as "filth". He opposes illegal immigration to Italy, claiming it to be a serious threat that "aims to erase the Italian people along with their communities and traditions", along with "gay marriages and the so-called gender theory in schools". During his political career, Fontana built strong ties with neo-Nazi groups in his hometown Verona. In 2016, he welcomed and greeted Golden Dawn,