Nothey didn’t see her coming, but now they know it’s there and which will bring about a change within the Democratic Party. Starting from the people, from those who will try to make the party something new, recovering however the foundational things of leftist ideology.
New Pd? Millennial generation
Elly Schlein calls his generation, that of the Millennials and offers them front row seats to accompany her in the reconstruction of the party. A bit like saying «Hello boomers!», even if the new secretary leaves room for them too, of course.
Elly Schlein calls her generation to report and the Democratic Party changes its face (Ansa)
Chiara Ghibaudo and Loredana Capone vice presidents
First, however, make way for the younger ones for once: starting with the deputy Clare Gribaudo and by the president of the Apulian regional council Loredana Caponenew vice presidents of the Democratic Party, both great supporters of the new secretary.
Certainly women, but also men
But with them there are many other womenfrom Maria Pia Pizzolante said Mapi, 39, feminist and coordinator of a network of precarious workers to the Roman deputy Michelle DiBiaseanother 1980, but also many other men.
From Flavio Aliverniniborn in 1980, spokesman and spin doctor for the Pistoia deputy Marco Furfaroalso 1980, ex vendolian a Matthias Santorithe founder of sardines.
A new generation in charge
In short, it can definitely be said that the Schlein’s management team has a certain compactness.
People linked by a life path marked by common stages that Schlein always likes to remember: coming of age with the G8 in Genoa and the attack on the Twin Towers, look for work with the subprime crisis of 2008 and obtain the first contracts after the Jobs Act Renziano, considered one of the worst things done in recent years.
Chiara Gribaudo and support for Elly
Clare Gribaudo she’s a big supporter of Schlein, a lot to turn one’s back on the Young Turks of Orfini where he served when the current decided to side with Stefano Bonaccini, to go straight in the arms of the rival of the president of Emilia Romagna.
Which, for its part, has entrusted to the Pd deputy, 41 years old from Borgo San Dalmazzo (Cuneo) in her third legislature, the task of coordinating the committees set up to support his candidacy when it seemed like a bet or little more.
Gribaudo starts out as an accountant, but then in a short time he realizes that this is not his path at all, which he discovers is instead that of an educator. But politics has been in her heart since she was a little girl: enrolled in the Anpi from a very young age, she became a councilor and then alderman of Borgo San Dalmazzo.
He deals with young people, digital and the European Union and stands out, up to the primaries of 2012 which crown Pierluigi Bersani secretary of the Democratic Party. The next year, she was elected to the Chamber for the first time and became deputy group leader of the party.
In view of the primaries chooses to stand against a part of his past to get together with the one who intends to build a new Pd, a party that finally returns to being «the party of labour, of the fight against injustice and the climate crisis, of women and young people».
Loredana Capone, not a Millenial but a woman
Loredana Caponethe second vice president of the Democratic Party is not a Millenial, but for Schlein it doesn’t make too much difference: married, 59 years old, 4 daughters, she leaves the lawyer to devote herself to politics.
In 2009 it becomes regional councilor for economic development of her city, Lecce, called by Nichi Vendola, then president of the Puglia Region. From that moment for Capone, the road is downhill.
She remains regional councilor even when the president of the Region becomes Michele Emiliano and in 2020 she gets a nice recognition: becomes the first female president of the Puglia Regional Council.
In the primaries he supports Stefano Bonaccini just for the first hour, but then announces the turning point: «I side with Schlein for a young and feminist party».
“National Vice President of the Democratic Party and as I write it I still don’t believe it – commented Capone – Thanks to Elly Schlein for the trust that he wanted to place in me – he adds – and in all the Apulians ».
Pd: who are the other “new”
It’s from September 1979, so in theory it would be GenZ, but the deputy from Como Clare Bragahas the license to join the group after having performed excellently as the national policy initiative manager of the Schlein motion in the Primary.
Then there is the former deputy secretary Pepe Provenzano1982, a deputy to whom Schlein delegated the delicate intervention in the courtroom after Minister Piantedosi’s report on the events at Cutro.
But the millennial closest to Schlein is Giovanni Gaspare Righi, thirty-seven year old mathematician from Bologna. Friend, advisor, organizer, the new secretary trusts him like a brother.
Righi has been with Schlein since 2013 and shared his entire political journey with her: from leaving the Democratic Party, to moving to Possible, the movement of Pippo Civatiuntil the congressional campaign
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