A woman at the Quirinale? It would be an epochal turning point and the figure of the former Minister of Health collects a lot of support
The march towards the election of the President of the Republic is already very complex for various political reasons, but it would be a grave mistake to overlook the element represented by the gender issue. To push on a theme that affaritaliani.it has already dealt with regarding the candidacy of Paola Severino is also an appeal signed by a group of women “of different political orientations” (but all from a progressive area), who have identified in Rosy Bindi the ideal figure for what would be a truly epochal turning point in the history of the Republic.
Berlusconi-Bindi: a challenge that starts from afar
“A woman head of state? I’ve been saying this since the days of Tina Anselmi”, Said the person concerned in an interview with‘Expressed, but it would be really curious if she was really the challenger to Silvio Berlusconi, in what according to various analysts seems to be the most likely duel to date. Between the two there is in fact an ancient rust and not extraneous to the theme of the relationship between genders. In 2009 the founder of Forza Italia gave her a very famous but not very gallant jab, defining it “More beautiful than intelligent” during an episode of “Door to door”. The response of the former Minister of Health was equally sharp (“I am a woman who is not at your disposal”) and fueled the controversy on relations between genders, which for Berlusconi would have reserved other delicate passages.
Champion of public health
Born on February 12, 1951 in Sinalunga, in the Siena area, Rosaria called “Rosy” has a long political militancy behind him, which began inCatholic Action and reached the highest institutional levels. Graduated in Political Science from LUISS, researcher in administrative law at Sapienza University of Rome and then in the Faculty of Law of Siena, she was next to the Christian Democrat professor Vittorio Bachelet (of which she was assistant) at the moment of her assassination by the Red Brigades on February 12, 1980. After the experience in the DC, she entered the PPI, participating in the birth of the Olive tree. In 1996 she joined the Prodi government as Minister of Health, a role he also maintained in the subsequent D’Alema I and II executives. In this important capacity, in 1999 he launched the reform of the National Health Service which, among other things, more rigidly regulates the relationship between public and private. For this reason, even today it is often called into question in the debates for its remarkable expertise, given that following the upheaval of Covid-19, insiders are appropriately asking themselves which direction to take for the welfare of the future.
Between ethical issues and controversies
In 2006, with the new electoral success of Romano Prodi, she returned to the government as Minister for family policies. In this new capacity he had clashes both with the Church, for having supported the I SAY (a rule on the coexistence of people also of the same itself), both with LGBT + associations, due to positions well summarized by externalizations such as “It is better for a child to stay in Africa with his tribe than to grow up with two men or two women”. If being between a rock and a hard place is never pleasant for a politician, in his case a positive narrative prevailed, which attributed these bipartisan criticisms to an independence of judgment that is not always a foregone conclusion, especially in the upper echelons. of institutions.
A destiny linked to Romano Prodi
President of the Anti-Mafia Commission and Vice-President of the Chamber of Deputies, she was also President of the Democratic Party, of which she was one of the founders. Her office lasted from 2009 to 2013, a decidedly not accidental date, especially when speaking of elections for the Quirinale: when the possibility that Prodi, to whom she is always closely linked, would become President of the Republic for the infamous “Betrayal” of the 101, Bindi resigned from the leadership of the Dem.
From Parliament to the University
His detachment from politics culminated in the decision not to reapply to the 2018 policies, thus interrupting 24 years of uninterrupted militancy as a parliamentarian. Today his commitment is especially directed to his role as a teacher at the Pontifical Antonianum University, where he teaches courses on legality and the fight against mafias. A few months ago he also declared that he had not renewed the card of the Democratic Party. Not even today, that among the Dems, her name often recurs as a candidate for the Quirinale does she seem to have changed her mind. In the aforementioned interview withExpressed, expressed very strong criticisms of a party that “is a power pact and must go beyond itself”, also trimming a jab at Minister Franceschini: “It’s like that advertisement: where there is a majority there is Dario”. A further demonstration of thatindependence of judgment that even the opponents recognize them, as well as the determination that does not fail even in a context that makes the outcome of the race to the Hill decidedly unpredictable. To the point that, on his chances of winning, he comments with a brilliant spirit: “I’m already writing the speech… like Casini”.
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