for mayor-worker Marco Fioravanti He is very fond of the statuette of the saint in his hand. Town hall This is the first thing you touch when you sit at your desk. Justifying her late arrival for the appointment with this newspaper, she says, “Forgive me for being late. I went to the funeral of an old woman in the neighborhood.” Fioravanti exercises extreme right apostle inside Ascoli Picenoinside Brandsinside centre of the Italy, a old district and injured as a result of trauma offshore. Here and there brothers from Italy accelerated its rise to corporate power three years ago. Sitting in his tidy office, Fioravanti remembers the golden age when subsidies poured in to the local industry and the youth didn’t go. This is the memory of a dream in which Fioravanti, the son of a socialist who has been in decline for two decades, believes only a woman can be resurrected: Giorgia Meloni, the most favorite leader to win this Sunday’s elections in Italy.
Fioravanti smiles at the thought of her past. He chose to be on the right a while ago and has no regrets. At 39, rooted in the death of his father, he has a cold-blooded character and political conviction, starting at the age of 19 to work in a rubber pipe factory. “I worked the night shift at a multinational factory, and I lost my job when that multinational moved away,” he says. Thus, he became fully involved in politics. elected in 2009 councilor at Ascoli and in 2019, first mayor of the brothers from Italy of his city. A year later, the regional government was also in the hands of a coalition led by his party.
Upon closer inspection, it was a crushing conquest that explained some of the keys. ultra rise (and its consequences) in Italy. Months after his victory, Fioravanti attended a controversial dinner to mark the anniversary of his death. March in Rome (1922)who brought their ‘black shirts’ to power dictator Benito Mussolini. But the episode did not diminish its popularity. Second place this year Italy’s most popular mayor. “Experience at the factory has reaffirmed my belief that you can only fight the system if you’re inside. And to defend the working class, companies need to be backed up so they can hire people,” Fioravanti says. “The right is an alternative. It is a right, above all, responsible for the social, as it must at least be guaranteed to everyone,” he adds. social and collectivist right.
The adventure of achieving an abortion
in a period social turmoilIt is a message that permeates society. like his defense traditional familyhowever, a world-changing reproductive policy model access real abortion adventure for women Brands. “This is how we discussed abortion 44 years after it was legalized in 1978,” she says. social worker Tiziana Antonuccinetwork head Italian Demographic Education Association (AIED). The last was the decision of the regional government to ban its use in 2021. Ru-486 abortion pill, allowed up to the ninth week according to the new national legislation. Something describing Antonucci adds to his already elusive context. shortage of public clinics helping women have abortions and high rates of conscientious objector gynecologistsUp to 70% overall in this region (a higher figure than the national average of 64%). “There are centers where 100% of the staff are conscientious objectors,” Antonucci says, and complains that not enough resources are allocated for contraceptive measures.
according to the numbers Italian Ministry of Health year 2020, Brands They are at the bottom of the list of regions in Italy by abortion rate, lower than the average (4.5 per 1,000 population) national figure (5.4). In parallel, in some cities of this region, for example fermoThe proportion of women who had to move to other places to stop their pregnancy reaches 50%. According to various sources consulted, it is the result of policies. strategy extreme right stop the depopulation and flight of young people seeking alternatives in other parts of the country and Europe. A phenomenon that is national in Italy, but particularly prominent here, affecting both the Italians (18% of children born between 2013 and 2019) and the immigrant population (-26%).
However, and although Barriers to women having abortions Although it is one of the most controversial issues, it is not the only concern of NGOs and social promotion associations. Paula Amadio, feminist activist, says it openly. “They didn’t do much for the workers, but they cut off funding to the most vulnerable people,” he criticizes. “Attacks against minorities have increased a lot throughout the region. This affects both the LGBTI+ community and immigrants already ‘homeless‘” he adds. Chronicles of recent years vindicate him.