Giuseppe Civati
Giuseppe "Pippo" Civati (born August 4, 1975 in Monza ) is an Italian author and politician . He was a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies from 2013 to 2018 and initiated the left-wing small party Possibile in 2015 .
Life
education
After graduating from high school in Monza, Civati studied philosophy at the State University of Milan and received his doctorate there in 2004. Before that, he had already completed a postgraduate course in 2002 on the “Culture of Humanism and Renaissance” at the Italian Institute for Renaissance Studies in Florence . The focus of his academic work is the Renaissance philosophy (especially the figure of Giordano Bruno ) and the questioning of globalization and its effect on Western identity.
Political activity
Civati began his political career as a representative of the Partito Democratico della Sinistra (PDS; Democratic Left Party) in the city council of his hometown Monza in 1997. From 2002 he worked as party secretary of the Democratici di Sinistra (DS; Left Democrats) for the province of Milan and the region Lombardy . Since 2004 he has been writing about current politics in a blog. In 2005 he was elected to the Lombard regional council. Civati has been a member of the Partito Democratico (PD) since it was founded in 2007 . After Walter Veltroni's resignation as party chairman on February 17, 2009, Civati was voted Veltroni's second-best potential successor in an online poll by the weekly L'Espresso. In November 2012, Civati announced his intention to run for party chairman.
In the parliamentary elections in February 2013 for the 17th legislative period, Civati moved into the Italian Chamber of Deputies as a representative of the PD in Lombardy . There he was a member of the Committee for Industry, Trade and Tourism until July 2015. Civati ran for the PD's open primary for party leadership in December 2013. Senators Felice Casson , Corradino Mineo and Laura Puppato spoke out as supporters of Civati . Ultimately, Civati came third with 399,473 votes (14.2%) behind Matteo Renzi and Gianni Cuperlo . Civati remained one of Renzi's sharpest internal party critics, who in addition to the party chairmanship also took over the office of Italian Prime Minister in February 2014. Civati rejected Renzi's austerity policies, reform of labor law (Jobs Act) , suffrage and constitutional amendments, and accused Renzi of leading the PD to the right.
In May 2015, Civati left the PD and a month later founded the Possibile party (“Possible”), which positions itself further to the left, campaigning for civil rights, redistribution and environmental protection. The symbol of the party is an equality sign , which is intended to emphasize their commitment to equality. Civati was followed by three MEPs and MEP Elly Schlein . He kept his mandate in the Chamber of Deputies, but moved from the PD parliamentary group to the “mixed” group of non-attached MPs and from the Industry and Trade Committee to the Committee on Culture, Science and Education. Civati's goal was initially to protect the various parties, groups and politicians to the left of the PD, e. B. Sinistra Ecologia Libertà , Federazione dei Verdi , Stefano Fassinas Futuro a Sinistra , Sergio Cofferati , Maurizio Landini , in a loosely organized party, whose voter potential he estimated at 10%.
In fact, they did not join his party, but in March 2017 a left-wing parliamentary group was formed in the House of Representatives (Sinistra Italiana - Sinistra Ecologia Libertà - Possibile - Liberi e Uguali). Civati returned to the Committee on Industry. In the 2018 parliamentary elections , several left-wing parties and groups, including Possibile, Articolo 1 and Sinistra Italiana , ran on the joint list Liberi e Uguali (“The Free and Equals”). This received 3.4% of the vote, which resulted in 14 seats in the House of Representatives and 4 in the Senate. Only one of the seats went to a member of Possibile, Luca Pastorino , while Civati left parliament. He then also resigned the party leadership, his successor was Beatrice Brignone . For the 2019 European elections , Civati was a candidate on the Europa Verde list (with Federazione dei Verdi and the South Tyrolean Greens ). He was the candidate with the most preferential votes on this list, which, however, received only 2.3% of the votes and thus no seat in the European Parliament.
Fonts
- Un dialogo sull'umanesimo. Hans-Georg Gadamer e Ernesto Grassi , L'Eubage, Aosta 2003.
- (Transl.) La libertà perduta. Dialogus de Libertate di Alamanno Rinuccini , Vittone editore, Monza 2003.
- No logos? Sommario sulla globalizzazione da un punto di vista filosofico , CUEM, Milano 2005.
- Nostalgia del futuro. La sinistra e il PD da oggi in poi , Marsilio, Venezia 2009.
- La rivendicazione della politica: cinque stelle, mille domande e qualche risposta , Fuorionda, Arezzo 2012.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Francesca Schianchi: Civati: la sinistra Possibile vale almeno il 10% dei voti. In: La Stampa (online), June 25, 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Civati, Giuseppe |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Civati, Pippo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian author and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th August 1975 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Monza |