from the former Young Turks to the Sardines- Corriere.it

There are new faces but also more mature ones in the new management bodies launched yesterday by the National Assembly of the Democratic Party. There are names, which sound unknown even to the delegates who have to vote for them, there at the Nuvola, while the new president Stefano Bonaccini reads them. The two vice-presidents appointed by the secretary are certainly not unknown to that audience, although they have not had leading roles so far. The first, Chiara Gribaudo, in her third legislature. She was with Matteo Orfini’s young Turks, then was electrocuted by Elly Schlein, she left her boss, and followed the electoral campaign of the former Occupy Pd leader. Born in 1981, from Cuneo, he was in the secretariat with Enrico Letta, at the Orfini level, and in the primary campaign he was in charge of coordinating the committees for the new secretary: now Schlein was thinking of going back to it, but his too many utterances these days (some, on work and on Ukraine, would have embarrassed the leader) the they backtracked.

The other vice president will be Loredana Capone: at Stefano Bonaccini’s first initiative on the field for the primaries she was on stage with him in Bari. About a week later she spent with Schlein. They say that the president of Emilia-Romagna didn’t take it badly because she well knew that Michele Emiliano he had divided his team between one challenger and another. And in fact now the governor of Puglia applauds this appointment: We are pleased. You, who spoke yesterday in the Assembly, claimed that you had not heard anything about your appointment until two minutes earlier: I still don’t believe it.

In the Directorate the names little known to the delegates of the Assembly themselves are different. Two for are Sardines and alla Nuvola know them all. One Mattia Santori, whose star, after a period of notoriety, had faded. Then the spotlight returned to him when he denounced the attack by a dog on two geese in the Bologna city council where he had been elected in the meantime. Expert in frisbee, Mattia Santori invented sardines and mobilized the young people of Emilia-Romagna when Matteo Salvini’s candidate, Lucia Borgonzoni, challenged (losing) Stefano Bonaccini for the presidency of that region.

And, speaking of sardines, there is another one in the Management: Jasmine Coral. Also under 40, born in Catanzaro, in 2020 she opened an episode of the Amici broadcast on Canale 5 with a monologue against the fear of the different. Another new entry Mati Pizzolante, former head of the Unity parties, feminist, under 40, who yesterday tried to keep her beautiful (and very active) child at bay in the Assembly.

But in the Directorate there are also long-time captains. Those who have never left the Democratic Party, like Goffredo Bettini, or the former Minister of Labor Andrea Orlando, such as Dario Franceschini, Lorenzo Guerini and Graziano Delrio, and those who had wandered off from the Democratic Party and who are now back: Livia Turco, for example, whom Elly Schlein wanted to publicly thank .