Leta: I can not help but mention the 100,000 dead in the pandemic and the half a million Italians who lost their jobs

The former Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta He was recently elected leader of the center-left Democratic Party. He replaces the resigned Nicolas Gingatretti, who remains governor of Lazio, a wider area of ​​Rome. Letta was elected by the general assembly of the Democrats, almost unanimously: with 860 votes in favor, 2 against and 4 abstentions.

“I could not help but mention the 100,000 dead in the pandemic and the half a million Italians who lost their jobs. “With this awareness, we will seek the best possible solutions for the future,” said the new secretary of the Italian center-left.

At the same time, he stressed that gender equality must be put into practice – and within his party – while announcing that he would fight for the right to vote for the sixteen, as well as for the law that will allow the children of immigrants to more easily acquire Italian citizenship.

For the past seven years, Enrico Letta, 54, has been teaching at a university in Paris. Following Gingaretti’s resignation, many Democrats called on him to return to Italy and take over the leadership of the party, which has been facing a number of problems lately. These problems concern both the fall in the polls that show the intention of the citizens to vote, as well as the overall strategy of the Italian center-left.

The “Leta line” is expected to be expressed with the full support of the government of Mario Draghi – in close cooperation with the European Commission and other European institutions – but also with the strengthening of the autonomy of the Democratic Party, beyond any electoral alliances with the movement. Five Star.