Italian democratic party leader
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The Italian left’s radical underdog now holds the tiller of its biggest party, which saw in her the solution to a years-long identity crisis. The young leader promised to double down on core leftwing battles and energise the opposition. But her line on foreign policy – especially regarding Ukraine and NATO – is still foggy
From underdog to top dog. On Sunday, members of the Italian Democratic Party (PD) elected Elly Schlein as their new secretary. The 37-year-old unexpectedly beat the favoured candidate, Emilia-Romagna’s Regional Governor Stefano Bonaccini, who had beaten her in the first round of the open primaries and to whom she had acted as deputy until October 2022.
- Ms Schlein, an Italian, Swiss and United States citizen, has been labelled by Time as “Italy’s AOC” and endorsed by The Guardianas the Italian left’s “rising star.”
- She volunteered in Barack Obama’s 2008 and 2012 electoral campaigns and spent years with the Italian left. She was elected MEP with the PD in 2014, then left the party in 2015, only to return in 2022 to run for leadership.
A flash in the dark. “The Democratic people are alive, [present] and ready to rise with a clear line,” rejoiced Ms Schlein in her victory speech. “We have done it; together, we have made a great little revolution.
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How the Democrats Became Italy’s Establishment Party
Ahead of June’s elections to the European Union’s parliament, Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni is troubling the sleep of progressive public opinion, not only at home but throughout the Old Continent. So strong is her domestic position that the postfascist leader Meloni is now a leading light for European conservative forces in general.
Yet Meloni’s political force also owes to the weakness of the opposition. The simple truth is that the Italian right would not enjoy such a commanding position if it were not for the many self-defeating moves by the main force on the center left, the Democratic Party. This is true even under new segretaria (party leader) Elly Schlein, who raised many hopes when she was elected to this post in March 2023.
But this also tells us something wider about the Democrats and their current position. The Italian center left’s many damaging choices were not individual follies or even outbreaks of collective madness. Rather, they are rooted in this party’s recent history and political culture — and its particular social base.
The Democratic Party may have only a short history, but it has already passed through several sometimes strikingly contradictory phases. The party was founded in 2007 as a
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Democratic Party (Italy)
Italian social republican political party
For the 1913 party, photograph Democratic Social gathering (Italy, 1913).
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