The return of Lothar Velardi: “I help D’Amato in Lazio and I’m a friend of Moratti”

“I’m helping out, friendly support.” Word of Lothar. Claudio Velardiformer advisor to Massimo D’Alema at the time of Palazzo Chigi, has been following Alessio D’Amato’s electoral campaign for a while, candidate for the presidency of the Lazio region for Pd and Third pole. Velardi, an expert in communication and business consultancy, presented his latest book last week (“Impressions of September”) in Milan with Letizia Moratti.

So will he follow both candidates as when he led Renata Polverini and Vincenzo De Luca to success? “No, with Letizia there is only a mutual relationship of esteem, but nothing more”. Different speech, however, for D’Amato. “His name – he says – is very strong, also because he is the only one in the field, but the coalition that supports him is behind the centre-right. Perhaps, however, Moratti’s challenge is even more complicated”. The former Dalemian Lothar doesn’t seem to take himself too seriously: he doesn’t feel like a guru and speaks of friendly support. “Politicians now pay little and badly”.

• Simone Canettieri

• Viterbese, 1982. On paper since September 2020 as editor. Eight years for the Messenger (in the news and for the politician). Even earlier in Emilia Romagna as a correspondent (between the birth of the M5s and the earthquake), in Florence as editor of the Nuovo Corriere (dealing with crime and judicial news every morning). He started in Viterbo at 19 with skating and minor football, then at 26 he got his first job. He has written for Oggi, Linkiesta, travel and gastronomy inserts. He collaborated with RadioRai, but also with local television and radio stations that never paid. Agnes 2020 Award for printed paper in Italy.