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Pierfrancesco Majorino: «Everything must change in Lombardy»

The match will be played on 12 and 13 Februaryin the regional elections, when the Northern League governor Attilio Fontana will challenge Pierfrancesco Majorinoof the centre-left and of the M5s, the candidate supported by the Third Pole Letizia Moratti e Mara Ghidorzi of the People’s Union.

“It will be an extraordinary opportunity to change things,” he says Pierfrancesco Majorino.

He, from Milan, born in 1973, has chewed a lot of politics: councilor for social policies, health, municipal rights, first in the council led by Giuliano Pisapia (from 2011 to 2016) and then in that of Beppe Sala (from 2016 ), is a member of the national leadership of the Democratic Party and, since 2019, has been a member of the European Parliament.

And now he is ready for the presidency of the Region.

Pierfrancesco Majorino

In your opinion, between who and who is the real challenge?
«The polls support it, the choice is between Fontana and me, I say this with all due respect to Letizia Moratti. Whoever wants to leave things as they are will choose Fontana, whoever wants things to go differently will vote for me ».

If you were to indicate the central point of your program?
«In the meantime, we want total discontinuity in the management of healthcare: healthcare in recent years has been managed by making waiting lists grow, which has led to the enrichment of some, on the skin of others. And this is a huge problem and it’s the first one to address. There is no Italian region where so many problems have exploded in this way and Fontana and Letizia Moratti have done nothing to prevent it, indeed it is suspected that they may have had some complicity, so that there were those who could get rich. Remaining on the issue of Health, we want general practitioners present in the area, they must be listened to in order to reorganize their presence effectively. Today they are very bureaucratized figures, instead we need active presences in the care of people. We must review the social and health services by supporting doctors, nurses, the world of those who care for non self-sufficient elderly people: we must reorganize the system in the name of the public interest”.

Healthcare aside?
«We need policies to support public transport, the management of Trenord must be overturned, we need the strengthening of regional transport which today is managed in an unworthy way and the conditions of commuters are not acceptable. An injection of real resources is needed to support local public transport by road because Lombardy is many different things, with territories very distant from the big cities where the disservice is no longer news. We need a policy that is finally enlightened from an environmental point of view, interventions in support of energy communities, energy efficiency of social housing. In short, we really need to change pace, as we need to do on issues concerning equal opportunities and rights. In recent years Fontana and Moratti have allowed, for example, law 194 not always to be applied and this is a problem that affects the right of women and girls to decide for themselves. The question of rights also concerns other aspects, I am thinking of interventions aimed at supporting the right of girls and boys to be adequately supported in their career path: enough with the cheaply paid internships. It’s a clear reversal of priorities.”

Apart from the net inversion, what is beautiful about Lombardy that should be valued?
«Our region is extraordinary, it is a marvelous archipelago of conditions and stories, it is a pity that there has been no regional policy of the institutions to support the wealth of this territory. Lombardy is many different things, many excellent experiences and not only for the extraordinary work culture, but also for the attention to the person and for its cultural beauties. I’m thinking of the extraordinary galaxy of experiences in the third sector, I’m thinking of anti-violence centres, I’m thinking of the workshops of artisans who resist in small villages… At this point, politics must show itself up to all this heritage».

Are you a believer?
“No, I’m not a believer. I would say better: I am a non-believer with doubt. In my latest novel Sister revolution the protagonists are nuns, who fight against the violence of the world. It is undoubtedly an unconscious reaction.

What if he had to use a slogan? What is his mantra?
“People come first. And in Lombardy we need to change ».

Source: Vanity Fair

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