Vita gazette – Elly Schlein wins with 53.8% against 46.2%. Bonaccini: “I applaud you. Now it’s Elly’s turn to show the way.”

“The democratic people are alive, they exist, and they are ready to get up again with a clear line”. Elly Schlein said this while speaking at her committee headquarters. We will be a problem for the Meloni government; we will be here. Today there was another massacre that weighs on the consciences of those who a few days ago approved a decree that prevents rescues at sea when legal ways of entry into Europe would be needed”, he added, referring to the shipwreck of migrants in Calabria. “From tomorrow we will work together in the interest of the country. We will work for unity; my commitment is to be everyone’s secretary, to win again”.

With a short speech, the challenger acknowledged defeat: “The first thing I ask is to applaud Elly Schlein – said Bonaccini – Starting tomorrow, we must all lend a hand for the relaunch of the Democratic Party; we feel the responsibility to make ourselves available, we have to give Elly a hand. I’ve always said: if I had won, I would have asked Elly to give me a hand, Elly prevailed, and without asking anything for me, I’m ready to lend a hand”.

Who is Elly Schlein, the new secretary of the PD

Who is Elly Schlein Elly’s father – Melvin Schlein – is a professor emeritus of political science and history at Franklin University in Lugano. On the other hand, his mother, Maria Paola Viviani, is a full professor of Comparative Public Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Insubria.

A historical kinship, that’s whose grandson Elly Schlein is

Elly is the nephew of the anti-fascist lawyer Agostino Viviani, senator of the Socialist Party and former president of the Senate Justice Commission.

Elly Schlein’s political career

After constantly chewing politics, he enrolled in the Faculty of Law in Bologna, graduating with honours in 2011.

After participating in some mobilisations in the United States to support Barack Obama’s candidacy for president, he continued his political commitment in Italy in 2013 by launching the ‘Occupy PD’ mobilisation campaign: an action started by the party’s youth base regarding the choice of the national leaders in giving life to the Letta government, which resulted in the occupation of some offices later on. After supporting Pippo Civati ​​in the Pd primaries of 2013, she was elected to the party’s national leadership.

In 2014 she ran with dem for the European Parliament – many will remember the viral hashtag #siscribeschlein – where she was elected with over 53,000 preferences. She was vice-president of the delegation to the EU-Albania Parliamentary Stabilization Commission and was a member of the Development Commission. In 2015 he left the Democratic Party and joined “Possible”, a party founded by Civati.

She did not reapply for the 2019 European elections. Still, she was elected vice president of the Emilia-Romagna region in the regional elections in 2020 with the ‘Emilia-Romagna Courageous Ecologist and Progressive’ list, starting to hold the position of Bonaccini’s replacement. Elly Schlein, with almost 23,000 preferences, is the most-voted list candidate in the history of Emilia-Romagna.

In the last political elections, she was a candidate for the Chamber of Deputies as an independent among the lists of the Democratic Party. She was subsequently elected, with consequent resignation from the position of vice president of the Region. Following the resignation of Enrico Letta last November, he announced through a direct social network, on Instagram, his willingness to run as the new secretary of the Democratic Party.

Elly Schlein’s program

“Social justice and climate are inseparable”: the incipit of Elly Schlein’s program supported today, the day of the Primary, entitled “Part with us Here’s what the main points are and what it’s about.

Social and civil rights, attention to climate change and the right to housing: are the cornerstones of his program “Part from us”.

Fight against fragility, attention to social and civil rights, public health, taxes and large estates, right to housing and revitalisation of public housing, overcoming of law 194 through guaranteeing a percentage of non-objecting doctors: these, among others, the cornerstones of his candidacy.

“Because those most affected by the ongoing climate emergency are the most fragile and impoverished by crises, both globally and in our country,” the program continues. And again: “Social rights and civil rights are inseparable; those who make hierarchies usually want to deny them both”.

Schlein also insists on the incompatibility between “party positions and public and administrative functions”. In essence, anyone who holds a role within the Democratic Party should abandon other positions, enhancing the aspect of party autonomy.

“The right has gone to the government; it is right and unfortunately wins the regional elections – Schlein said in the last confrontation with Bonaccini on Sky -. And I believe we have to do the left, which today can only be an ecologist and a feminist together. We need a Democratic Party that returns to the side of Italy, which today is struggling more, which has remained further behind and crushed in these decades of political choices that have increased inequalities and risk destroying the planet “.

“I appeal to the many militants who want redemption and to gather around a clear identity – continued Schlein – If you want to help us change it, come and vote on February 26 because if the Democratic Party changes, Italy will change too”.