*From Bloomberg News reporter Donato Paolo Mancini:*
A referendum defeat for Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni last month is galvanizing Italy’s opposition.
With their hopes of returning to power revived, a new name has emerged as a potential contender when elections are next held: Silvia Salis.
The 40-year old political novice doesn’t sit in Parliament in Rome, but rather in Genoa’s 16th century Palazzo Doria Tursi, where she serves as the city’s mayor. For now, the former Olympic hammer thrower is betting that countering Meloni’s culture-war script while she carves out a national profile is enough to make her a credible challenger.
tomis23 on
The anti-Meloni. Her name? Pepperoni.
Any-Original-6113 on
I’d say that Bloomberg’s commentary wasn’t a description of some political battle-Â it was a description of an 1980s Italian comedy, with two Italian beauties vying for a man called Italy (let’s say Adriano Celentano)./s
litritium on
Classy 40 year old. Italians really excels in style and presentation.
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Silvia Salis is not the anti-meloni, she is ok, but she is doing a good job locally but most people don’t know who she is and she does not want primary election and that’s an issue right now because I think most people that are against Meloni want that the center left wing sit to create a common program and decide a leader for the next election.
I think Elly Schlein should be premier for the center left wing coalition and I will vote for her in the primary election. PD is the first party in the center left coalition and she is the segretaria di partito (basically the current leader of PD) so I think it’s only natural that she will win the primary elections.
The main alternative to Elly is Conte the current segretario di partito of the M5S party… but I don’t think he deserve to be premier since the first the government he led was in alliance with the Lega party led by salvini, basically a right wing government. After that he actually did something good with PD, and he is trying to do good in the coalition, but I don’t think he should lead the coalition (but I will accept the result of the primary election if he win).
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We’ve got two Italian politicians sharing that last name.
Ilaria Salis, currently in the EU parliament, is an extreme left wing politicians, the ones who was in jail in Hungary.
This one is called Silvia Salis, career politician who used to be a professional athlete, moderate left wing.
It’s a actually an issue for Silvia to share that last name with Ilaria, very different politicians.
At some point she even had “not that Salis” in her Facebook banner.
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If the center left coalition wins the next election, the prime minister will be Conte, and than may God help us
lafarda on
Don’t let the anti-Meloni touch the Meloni or it will emc2 the hell out of Italy.
lostproton on
Non esiste un anti Meloni attualmente. Nessuno di sinistra si farà veramente avanti in questo periodo di forti cambiamenti, soprattutto internazionali. La politica fatta a colpi di shorts su tiktok è vuota e propagandistica ma va per la maggiore sia a sinistra che a destra (a cui riesce meglio). Realisticamente resterà al governo per tutto il mandato.
Possible-Wallaby-877 on
And what do actual Italians think of her? Instead of some Bloomberg article…..
SnoozeButtonBen on
A Prosciuttoni.
Nagash24 on
So Bloomberg reduces a politician to “being an anti-Meloni” because she’s a blonde woman on the opposite side of the political spectrum?
Good stuff /s
riki232 on
Oh yes, the infamous Weloni 🙂
ankokudaishogun on
What drug have these people taken and where can I find some?
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*From Bloomberg News reporter Donato Paolo Mancini:*
A referendum defeat for Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni last month is galvanizing Italy’s opposition.
With their hopes of returning to power revived, a new name has emerged as a potential contender when elections are next held: Silvia Salis.
The 40-year old political novice doesn’t sit in Parliament in Rome, but rather in Genoa’s 16th century Palazzo Doria Tursi, where she serves as the city’s mayor. For now, the former Olympic hammer thrower is betting that countering Meloni’s culture-war script while she carves out a national profile is enough to make her a credible challenger.
The anti-Meloni. Her name? Pepperoni.
I’d say that Bloomberg’s commentary wasn’t a description of some political battle-Â it was a description of an 1980s Italian comedy, with two Italian beauties vying for a man called Italy (let’s say Adriano Celentano)./s
Classy 40 year old. Italians really excels in style and presentation.
Silvia Salis is not the anti-meloni, she is ok, but she is doing a good job locally but most people don’t know who she is and she does not want primary election and that’s an issue right now because I think most people that are against Meloni want that the center left wing sit to create a common program and decide a leader for the next election.
I think Elly Schlein should be premier for the center left wing coalition and I will vote for her in the primary election. PD is the first party in the center left coalition and she is the segretaria di partito (basically the current leader of PD) so I think it’s only natural that she will win the primary elections.
The main alternative to Elly is Conte the current segretario di partito of the M5S party… but I don’t think he deserve to be premier since the first the government he led was in alliance with the Lega party led by salvini, basically a right wing government. After that he actually did something good with PD, and he is trying to do good in the coalition, but I don’t think he should lead the coalition (but I will accept the result of the primary election if he win).
We’ve got two Italian politicians sharing that last name.
Ilaria Salis, currently in the EU parliament, is an extreme left wing politicians, the ones who was in jail in Hungary.
This one is called Silvia Salis, career politician who used to be a professional athlete, moderate left wing.
It’s a actually an issue for Silvia to share that last name with Ilaria, very different politicians.
At some point she even had “not that Salis” in her Facebook banner.
If the center left coalition wins the next election, the prime minister will be Conte, and than may God help us
Don’t let the anti-Meloni touch the Meloni or it will emc2 the hell out of Italy.
Non esiste un anti Meloni attualmente. Nessuno di sinistra si farà veramente avanti in questo periodo di forti cambiamenti, soprattutto internazionali. La politica fatta a colpi di shorts su tiktok è vuota e propagandistica ma va per la maggiore sia a sinistra che a destra (a cui riesce meglio). Realisticamente resterà al governo per tutto il mandato.
And what do actual Italians think of her? Instead of some Bloomberg article…..
A Prosciuttoni.
So Bloomberg reduces a politician to “being an anti-Meloni” because she’s a blonde woman on the opposite side of the political spectrum?
Good stuff /s
Oh yes, the infamous Weloni 🙂
What drug have these people taken and where can I find some?
Yes