“I was very struck by what some 100-year-old women who voted for me today told me,” she said. Ellie Schlein after winning the primary, “they told me they had waited 90 years to vote for secretary.” We know it’s not easy to be able to vote for women candidates for high political office, we know even less when we’re talking about progressive women and, in this case, feminists. Ellie Schlein was elected the new Democratic Party Secretary.the first in the history of the party, victory over Stefano Bonacchini with 53.80% of the vote. As she said, “It’s a small revolution.”

Thirty-seven years old, born in Switzerland to an Italian mother and an American father.Elena Ethel Schlein has a family history that connects her to political issues close to her heart. His maternal grandfather, Agostino Viviani, was a prominent anti-fascist lawyer, partisan and senator of the Socialist Party. However, his paternal grandfather Harry Schlein, from a Jewish family, emigrated from Eastern Europe to the United States to escape persecution. Her professional and political training took place in Bologna, where she has lived since the age of 19, and in the United States, where in 2008 she volunteered for the election campaign of Barack Obama. She graduated in law from the Alma Mater Studiorum with a thesis on foreigners held in Italian prisons, was a student representative and in 2013 stood out in the OccupyPD movement, where young party activists demanded a renewal of the centre-left.

Schlein was an MEP from 2014 to 2019, dealing in particular with immigration issues. Then, in February 2020, in the regional elections, she was the candidate on the list with the most personal preferences in the history of Emilia-Romagna and was appointed Vice-President of the region and adviser to the regional delegations on welfare and the Climate Change Pact. Now, after deciding to run as secretary and convincing voters, she faces the arduous task of reimagining the Democratic Party after years of stagnation, infighting and declining support. She seems like the perfect person for this: environmentalist, feminist, progressive, lesbian, pro-European, capable of bold choices, she fights for LGBT rights, basic income, freedom to have an abortion, parental leave and sustainable economic development.” for people and the planet.” His leadership contrasts sharply with that of Georgia Prime Minister Meloni. “The Democratic Party is alive and it’s a mandate for change,” he said, “with a clear line that puts the fight against inequality and the climate emergency at the center.”