SortI is candidate without a real administrative experience, the opponents accused her. “Caruccia but inexperienced” has come to call her the forzist group leader in the Senate Maurizio Gasparri (and ..“Elections are not a beauty contest”). In three months of the election campaign Silvia Salis has disappeared the cards and today is the new mayor of Genoa, elected in the first round. The former Olympic champion in the launch of the hammer as well as First woman to be appointed Vicar President of the Coni won driving an XXL coalition That now, he has always said herself, “can become an example for national politics”. He won by claiming his own personal history and his political independence, but also the years spent to engage in the subject of rights and gender equality.
Who is Silvia Salis, former Martelistic and new mayor of Genoa in the first round
Graduated in Political Science, 39 years old, a small son, Eugenio, and a well -known husband, the director Fausto Brizzi, Silvia Salis was born and raised between the waves and the steps, in the Sturla district, in the Genoese Levant.
The militant father of the PCI disappeared in the days of the street to the electoral adventure, was the custodian of the athletic field Villa Gentile, where his father. There, between a jump and a launch, the passion for the hammer was born, a discipline that requires strength, technique and a good dose of courage. And of courage, Salis has shown to sell it, conquering Ten national titles and participating in two OlympicsBeijing 2008 and London 2012.
The new mayor of Genoa Silvia Salis at Palazzo Tursi, home of the Municipality of Genoa, to celebrate victory. In his arms, his son Eugenio, had by her husband, the director Fausto Brizzi. The child is called as Silvia’s father, who disappeared at the dawn of the election campaign, and to whom the new mayor has dedicated the victory Ansa/Pietro Gammandroni
In 2016 he stripped the role of the athlete to wear those of the sports managerentering the Federal Council of the Federation of athletics. A year later it is in Federal Council of the Coni. “In an environment often dominated by men, I made myself a road with competence and character, without ever giving up my values,” he said. In 2021 President Giovanni Malagò the appointment Vice -president Vicaria.
In Genoa It is already tomorrow
His curriculum is rich but it was certainly not political until he chose to apply in February. The slogan of his election campaign, “is already tomorrow,” he says enough.
To manage his wide field (i.e. Pd and M5s, more left and center parties, as action) has had to impuntrate several times (“If we do not find an agreement, I withdraw my candidacy”, threatened in a couple of occasions). Always reiterating the on «Vision of the city: Reduce inequalities, offer opportunities to young people and improve the quality of life in the neighborhoods too often forgotten. I believe in an administration close to citizens, capable of listening and solving problems with concrete solutions ».
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