Elly Schlein, the privacy of her partner in Bologna and her family between the USA, Switzerland and Greece – Corriere.it

There is an aspect of Elly Schlein’s character with which the first secretary of the Democratic Party, 37 years old, he has been dealing with since he set foot in the Nazarene. The winner of the primaries has the sacred cult of privacy. If it were up to her, Italians should know nothing about her private life, or almost. But now that she has entered the history of Italian politics, everything about her makes the news, from the family album to the sketch of her mysterious companion.

Three years ago, a guest on Daria Bignardi’s TV on Nove, the then vice president of Emilia-Romagna spoke about his sentimental situation, with a premise: I am very private about my personal life, but I make an exception. He said that he has had several relationships, that he has loved many men and loved many women and, doing coming out, revealed that he was bisexual: Right now I’m with a girl and I’m happy, as long as she tolerates me. Since then the chroniclers of Bologna, where she has lived since she was 18, they torment her to find out who is the woman who always walks side by side and whose name has so far been the best kept secret of the Nazarene. Every time the question comes Elly smiles and doesn’t answer, so much so that many in the Democratic Party are wondering if the first girlfriend really exists. It exists, they live together – confirms a dem deputy -. Her name is Paola and she is even more reserved than Elly. Which is why her friends will continue to protect her from prying eyes and ears, as long as possible.

The international and fascinating history of the Elly’s familydouble citizenship Italian and American and naturalized Swiss. Born in Lugano in 1985, she was registered in the registry office as Elena Ethel, from the names of the two grandmothers he didn’t know and who he wears with pride. The paternal grandfather was called Herschel Schleyenwas born in 1892 to a family Ashkenazi near Lviv, (today Zovkva, Ukraine) and to escape persecution against the Jews he had been forced to emigrate to the USA. He arrived between 1911 and 1914 a Ellis Island where they changed his name and became Harry Schlein, his niece recounted in her autobiography Our share (Mondadori, 2022).

maternal grandfather, Agostino Vivianiwas partisan and fervent anti-fascistlawyer, Senator of the Socialist Party and president of the Justice Commission of Palazzo Madama. At the beginning of the 1980s, his relationship with Bettino Craxi was bad, to the point that he decided to leave the PSI for the Radical Party. He was the only layman of a large Catholic family – recalls Elly – and the only one, on the day of his law degree in 1933, not to wear a black shirt.

The father Melvin SchleinAmerican of New Jersey, state assistant director at the Johns Hopkins University of Bologna e professor emeritus of Political Science and History at the Franklin University of Lugano. from him that the anti Meloni thinks he has taken that strong sense of duty, responsibility and dedication to work. The mother Maria Paola Viviani born in Siena, she taught Constitutional Law in Milan, full professor of Comparative Public Law at the University of Insubria and has been studying the constitutions of European countries for a lifetime.

Elly has a brother and sister. Benjamin Danielis, ten years older, an accomplished mathematician who has taught at Stanford, New York, Harvard and now Professor of Mathematical Physics in Zurich. Susanna Sylvia, 44, a career diplomat. First adviser to the Italian embassy in Athens, on 2 December you were saved from an anarchist-inspired attack. Her car was set on fire in the night and exploded in her garage. For Elly it was a shock. Two days later, launching his candidacy in the Monk club on the outskirts of Rome, Schlein was burst into tears and he called the militants’ embrace for his sister and beloved nephews who survived the Molotov cocktails: It’s been a difficult dayI really needed to be together.