Bianca Berlinguer and Luigi Manconi soon married (after 25 years)

To betray Bianca Berlinguer and Luigi Manconi, life companions for more than 25 years, were the publications of their imminent marriage finished first on More and then on Dagospia: publications that those directly interested would certainly have liked to keep for them. The couple, in fact, will get married after a life spent together in the utmost secrecy. Their paths crossed for the first time in Rome in 1996: Manconi was the spokesperson for the Greens, Berlinguer was the face of Tg3. They were both separated, and they decided to start the relationship without proclamations and without the usual interviews.

Two years later Giulia was born, the seal of a relationship that has always seen Bianca and Luigi complicit and close-knit both in the face of the most joyful and the most difficult moments, like the disease with which Manconi lives the 14 year old. «November 2007 … I had to speak to the Chamber .. There I realized I could not read even half a line», Manconi told Carlo Verdelli, explaining that he was visually impaired. Marriage, in their case, is nothing more than a simple formality, since those who know them have always spoken of a very close-knit and particularly tender couple, always present in the life of the other, but with enviable discretion.

Berlinguer is currently leading the information program #Cartabianca, broadcast every Tuesday in prime time on Rai3, an experience that came after having held the position of director of Tg3 from 2009 to 2016. Manconi, sociologist of Phenomena of Politics, journalist, writer, he was undersecretary of justice in Prodi II, senator of the Greens, and then of the Democratic Party. In 1995 and 1996 he was the first to present a bill on civil unions and on the living will. He was also the first to focus on the Stefano Cucchi case, shaking public opinion.