It is Caterina Chinnici, MEP of the Democratic Party to win the primaries of the progressive camp. The final figure of the votes (online plus gazebo) of the primaries of the progressive field confirms the victory of the MEP of the Pd Caterina Chinnici 14,552 votes (13,519 + 1033) (44.77%), which project her as candidate for president of the Region; Barbara Floridia, of the M5s, obtained a total of 10,317 votes (10,058 + 259), (31.74%); Claudio Fava 7,547 (6977 + 570) 23.22%.
To challenge each other were Caterina Chinnici, MEP of the Democratic Party, Undersecretary for Education Barbara Floridia of the M5s and the regional deputy of Cento passi Claudio Fava, former president of the regional anti-mafia.
Pd, with Chinnici the challenge to the center-right starts today
“It was a great moment of participation. Wins Caterina Chinnici and wins the Democratic Party. I thank the other candidates, Barbara Floridia and Claudia Fava. I thank managers and supporters who have not spared energy and passion. The challenge to the center-right starts today. Immediately to work to build the lists. “This was said by regional secretary Anthony Barbagallo, commenting on the victory of the Democratic Party candidate, Caterina Chinnici, in the primary of the progressive coalition.
Conte, Pd clarify if fellow travelers are others
“Thanks to all the Movimento 5 Stelle Sicilia for these weeks of dedication and participation. An effort that now deserves immediate clarity, because in these weeks many things have changed compared to when this path started. progressive alliance in Sicily the Democratic Party will have to clarify its objectives and say if the social and environmental agenda of the M5S is their own direction or if now the paths and fellow travelers are other, in line with the insults and statements of these days. For us what happens in Rome happens in Palermo “. The leader of M5s, Giuseppe Conte writes on Facebook, commenting on the progressive primaries in Sicily.
“Thanks Barbara – adds Conte to Chinnici -: you got a great result in the primary in Sicily, despite the Covid that kept you at home, despite all the attacks we are suffering”.
Chinnici, strong responsibility for the trust received
“I renew my thanks to the national secretary Enrico Letta, the regional secretary Anthony Barbagallo, the management, the clubs, the militants and the whole community of the Democratic Party for having proposed and supported my candidacy, and of course I thank all those who have chosen to vote for me. , giving me a trust of which I feel a strong responsibility and which I hope to be able to put to good use through my work for Sicily, the land I love, and for the people, all of them, with the spirit of service to the community that has always characterized my commitment “. This was stated by the MEP of the Democratic Party, Caterina Chinnici, winner of the primary of the progressive coalition in Sicily.
“There were three very intense weeks of meetings and dialogues with citizens, workers, exponents of the productive categories and the third sector, public administrators, young people – added Caterina Chinnici – They were beautiful days of listening and exchanging with al ideas center, days dedicated to the future of Sicily that we want to design and implement. I thank all the people who, offering their point of view and exercising the vote, were the protagonists of this collective construction experience, an open space for participation credit must be given to the Democratic Party and the progressive camp that have bet on these presidential primaries and their new formula with courage “.
The MEP of the Democratic Party also dedicates a passage of her first statements also to the opponents of the primaries of the progressive field: “The thematic comparisons with my two adventure companions Barbara Floridia and Claudio Fava, carried out in an atmosphere of great serenity, are particularly rich in ideas. , always and only on the contents “.
Who is Caterina Chinnici, toga and politics in the name of father Rocco
The love. And the pain. “I look at this region with love – said Caterina Chinnici at the debut of her adventure for the primaries of the progressive field – a Sicily for which my father also spent his life “.
Sixty-seven years old, the MEP of the Democratic Party, winner of the consultation that proclaimed her candidate president of the Region, was born in Palermo, where she graduated in Law at the age of 21, with full marks and academic honors.
He embarked on a career as a magistrate, a profession carried out by his father, the instructor advisor Rocco Chinnici, killed by the mafia on 29 July 1983: “That pain that I still carry inside me and is still very strong – Caterina said on June 27th – has been transformed into a desire and will to work for the good of this land”.
Chinnici served as praetor in Caltanissetta. He then gained administrative experience at the Ministry of Justice. She returned to Caltanissetta in 1991, she carried out the prosecution functions at the public prosecutor’s office and subsequently at the general prosecutor’s office.
She was the youngest magistrate in Italy to be appointed head of a judicial office. From September 20, 1995 to November 19, 2008, he held the executive office of prosecutor at the Juvenile Court of Caltanissetta, in a territory with particularly complex juvenile delinquencies, characterized by the involvement of even the youngest in organized crime mafia offenses.
From November 20, 2008 to June 2, 2009, Caterina Chinnici was a prosecutor at the Palermo Juvenile Court, constantly engaging in the prevention of juvenile delinquency.
In 2004 she was appointed by the Head of the Department for Juvenile Justice as a member of the Study Commission on the phenomenon of recidivism in juvenile offenders.
In 2008 she joined the central liaison body for the protection of unaccompanied community minors, set up at the Ministry of the Interior.
For the Sicilian Region, from June until 31 December 2009 he held, in the government chaired by Raffaele Lombardo, the office of councilor for the Family, Social Policies and Local Autonomies and then, from January 2010, that of councilor for Local Autonomies and the Public Service, signing the regional law 5/2011 on administrative transparency and simplification containing anti-corruption rules that preceded those adopted on a national scale by two years.
In 2012 Chinnici was appointed head of the ministerial department for juvenile justice, and under her management the pilot project “Pecorsi di legita ‘” was carried out in Sicily, Calabria, Puglia and Campania, aimed at the social and work reintegration of 1,300 minors. of the penal area.
He held this post until his candidacy, like leader of the Democratic Party in the Sicily-Sardinia constituency, in the European elections of May 2014, elected with 134,207 preferences.
Was President of the Intergroup on the Rights of the Child, also working on the regulation that established the European Public Prosecutor’s Office, the first supranational body with autonomous powers of criminal investigation, the regulation on the mutual recognition of confiscation orders, the directive that gave rise to the first model of juvenile criminal justice in Europe and the directive for the fight against terrorism.
It was also member of the special commission on terrorism which dictated the guidelines for future interventions necessary to counter the phenomenon.
Re-nominated in the European elections of May 2019, again as leader of the Democratic Party in the Sicily-Sardinia constituency, she was re-elected MEP with 113,248,000 votes.
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