Elly Schlein, elected leader of the Italian Democratic Party: “We must do as in Spain”

Elly Schlein, 37, surprise this sunday and in the primaries of the Italian Democratic Party (PD). against the favorite candidate in the polls, Stefano Bonaccini after a tight count.

With 80% of the vote counted, Schlein (Lugano, Switzerland, 1985) surprisingly won with 53.8% of the vote. to current governor Emilia Romagna (north) in the primaries of the largest progressive formation in the country, Stefano Bonaccini (46.2%)He was vice president until last October.

And so it happens first woman to lead this organizationheir to the extinct Communist Party.

“He was more skilled than I was at giving the Democratic Party a sense of renewal,” said Bonaccini. By admitting his defeat in an intervention that served to confirm Schlein as the new general secretary of the formation.

As the new leader arrives a breath of fresh air to refloat this formation on the edge of the abyss due to electoral defeats. -anticipated- leftist and rebellious turn.

His candidacy promised a left turn to pull the party out of an era of liberal-lined social-democracy turmoil that put it in opposition in the elections that handed over the far-right Giorgia Meloni last September.

“We want to rebuild a competitive, progressive front capable of winning (…) In short, To avoid being France we must do as in Spain“(The Socialist Party runs the first country and almost disappeared in the second),” he summed up at a meeting at the Foreign Press Association in Rome a few days ago.

Your proposal that wins PD voters requires exactly that: To put an end to the uncertainties that excluded the left in these years in Europe“and the defenders”a single project of fresh language, innovative methods and new content and faces“.

Elly Elena Ethel Schlein He was born in Switzerland to an Italian family.. His maternal grandfather was an Italian partisan, later a member of the Socialist Party, while his father was a Jew who fled persecution in Ukraine to the United States.

His father, Melvin Schlein, a famous political scientist, and his mother, Maria Paola Viviani, a teacher specialized in Public Law, settled in Switzerland with their three children. Elly decided to move to Bologna, Italy (north) in 2011.To graduate from the law department.

He took his first steps as an activist in the world of politics, which is in his blood, in this asylum. even came Volunteering in the 2012 re-election campaign for the Democratic President of the United States barack obama

It was a year later One of the young activists who formed the group ‘OccupyPD’‘ besieging party headquarters and protesting that party’s agreement with the right to form a ‘berlusconiana’ government after that year’s -indefinite- election.

in PD primaries Supported the most leftist and minority candidacy in 2013He joined the leadership of the party led by Pippo Civati ​​and since then by a Matteo Renzi, which will plunge him into a deep ideological crisis that stretches to the present day.

MEP

Elly Schlein was elected in 2014 MEPdedicating their body and soul to the community management of migration and fight against the far right Matteo Salvini, who was campaigning against irregular immigration at the time.

A year later he announced his departure from PD and outstripped him, like many who disagreed with Renzi’s liberal policies.

In 2020, he competed in the regional elections of Emilia Romagna on a progressive and ecological list supported by small parties split from the PD, with a vote success that forced Stefano Bonaccini, the winner, to elect vice-president.

He served two years, He was elected as an independent deputy in the general elections held last September.. But after the left’s decline, she announced that she was returning to the PD as an extravagant girl and was a candidate to lead it.

schlein, often compared to the American Alexandria Ocasio-CortezHe represents a new generation of political leaders for a left that has failed to fully mobilize its constituencies, as confirmed in the aforementioned elections.

First woman responsible for PD A staunch advocate of LGBT rights – he himself admitted on television that he has a girlfriend but “loves men”.– firmly believes in European federalism and considers it necessary to confront the climate crisis.

She is the sister of mathematician Benjamin Schelin and Sussana Schlein, a diplomat at the Italian Embassy in Athens.

Source: Informacion

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