With 3 votes against and 5 abstentions, the National Direction of the Democratic Party, gathered at the Nazarene, approved the lists for the candidates
in view of the next elections during the night.
The secretary of the Democratic Party will be a candidate as head of the Chamber in Lombardy and Veneto
while
Carlo Cottarelli
will be head of the Senate in Milan and the professor and microbiologist
Andrea Crisanti
will be head of the European Parliament.
Among the candidates in contention there will also be 4 young people under 35 indicated as leaders.
They are:
Rachele Scarpa, Cristina Cerroni, Raffaele La Regina, Marco Sarracino.
Sources of the Democratic Party assure that gender equality has been respected in the composition of the candidates on the lists.
Out of the lists Dem Luca Lotti
: "The secretary of my party has decided to exclude me from the lists for the next political elections - wrote
the former minister Luca Lotti on Fb -
. He communicated his choice to me, explaining that there are names of caliber higher than mine. I confess I did not quite understand if he was referring to those who until a few months ago were spitting poison against the Democratic Party and who today almost by magic find themselves a safe place on our lists. I do not know. But so it is ".
"The choice is political, no one is hiding behind cowardly excuses," he adds.
ANSA agency
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THE PARLIAMENTARY M5S
From 10 to 22 you vote to indicate the candidates of the 5 Star Movement in the Chamber and the Senate for the political elections of 25 September.
According to what is learned, more than 10 thousand people have expressed their preferences on the SkyVote platform in the first hour of the parliamentarians.
"Another great test of democracy. Our citizens at the service of the country and the institutions. It is one of the things that distinguish us from the others: we want to choose, we can choose": wrote M5s vice president Paola Taverna in a post in which invites 5-star members to vote and expresses "good luck to all candidates".
