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Gina Lollobrigida (November 2021 photo): Getting down to business
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She was tired of "hearing politicians argue with each other without ever getting to the point": At the age of 95, the Italian film icon Gina Lollobrigida wants to run for the Senate in the upcoming parliamentary elections on September 25th.
The actress underlined this in an interview with the newspaper "Corriere della Sera".
The »Repubblica« had previously reported on Lollobrigida's candidacy.
"Italy is in a bad way, I want to do something good and positive," said the woman from films like "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" (1956), "Fanfan, the Hussar" (1952) or "The Beauties of the Night" (1952). well-known film diva.
Lollobrigida wants to run on the candidate list, which includes the Communist Party and other splinter parties.
As long as the well-being of Italy is at stake, she wants to work with everyone, said Lollobrigida.
Before deciding to run for office, she said she spoke to her lawyer Antonio Ingroia.
Lollobrigida has a guardian, who was assigned to her by a court after years of family disputes, and is therefore not allowed to decide on her assets herself.
Entry into the EU Parliament failed
Lollobrigida had already tried a political career in 1999.
She was a candidate for the EU Parliament at the time, but clearly missed the necessary number of votes.
'It was an experience.
In life you can lose and you can win,” she said in an interview.
The people of Italy are due to elect a new parliament on September 25 after Mario Draghi's government collapsed at the end of July.
Head of state Sergio Mattarella then dissolved the parliamentary chambers and initiated the early elections.
Draghi is still in office as an executive.
In recent polls, the centre-right bloc led by the post-fascist Fratelli d'Italia, the right-wing Lega and the conservative Forza Italia.
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