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The congress of the Democratic Party - or rather that the convention should identify the three ca Ndidi the primaries - is slowly approaching, in fact, who s'iscriverà after July 21 can not participate in the voting on motions related to each candidate.
But who are those who until now have expressed their intention to run for national secretary of the Democratic Party? What are their stories, their experiences?
Currently there are four candidates, conosciamogli better ...

Pierluigi Bersani

has a past in the Communist Party Emilia - adhering to the PDS and then to DS - born in Bettola (Piacenza) 29 September 1951 in a family of artisans, his father was station attendant and mechanic. After high school he graduated in philosophy with a thesis on the history of Christianity, married since 1980, has two daughters Elisa and Margaret. Young and Vice President of the Montana Community Piacenza, then Vice President of the European surfed Piacenza. Elected Regional Councillor for the District of Piacenza, 6 July 1993 he was elected President of the Emilia Romagna Region, with 54% of the vote.
From 1996-1999 he was Minister of Industry, Commerce, Handicrafts and Tourism of the Prodi government, from 23 December 1999 to June 3, 2001 held the position of Minister of Transport and Navigation. In 2001 he was elected to the College Bicester - Salsomaggiore, X component of Productive Activities Commission of the Chamber. In the 2004 elections she was elected MEP area north-west; member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs "and the" Commission for the Internal Market and Consumer Protection. " Member of the Parliamentary Cooperation Committee Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia, the Delegation for relations with Belarus, and the Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly. It 'been a member of the Presidency and the Political Committee of the National Committee of the Democratic Left, by May 17, 2006 at' May 8, 2008, he served as Minister of Economic Development of the second Prodi government. From May 9 is the reference point for pd the economic sector.

Dario Franceschini


Dario Franceschini was born in Ferrara, October 19, 1958, married since 1986 and has two daughters, Catherine and Maria Elena is a graduate in law University of Ferrara.
His commitment in politics began in 1974 when he founded his school, the high school "Roiti" the ASD (Democratic Student Association), clearly inspired by Catholic and centrist, he enrolled at the time of the Christian Democrats' election as Secretary Benigno Zaccagnini, after two years from the date he was elected provincial delegate of young DC.
In 1980 he was elected city councilor in Ferrara, four years after entering the national leadership of the Young Democrats, this experience comes to mind later in the organs of the party and the provincial and regional newspapers, runs a number of DC area left in the transformation phase DC in PPI strongly urges the party to choose the alliance between the center and left, the choice of PPI to run as a third pole causes Franceschini in 1994 adheres to the Christian Social movement founded in Ferrara and becoming a National Council, one year after Ferrara is a candidate for mayor - into a coalition that saw the alliance with Labour and the Greens - Collecting 20% \u200b\u200bof the vote.
After splitting the PPI and membership of this Ulivo Franceschini part of the party, from 1994 to 1997 nor is deputy national secretary, and is a candidate to the role is political secretary in the last Congress. Enter the second D'Alema government as Undersecretary to the Presidency of the Council with responsibility for institutional reform, is elected in the elections of 2001 and the same is a founding member of the Margherita party, became the Leader of the 'National Executive.
was re-elected in the 2006 elections and became president of the parliamentary group of the Olive in the Chamber of Deputies.
On 14 October 2007 with the birth of the Democratic Party and the election of Walter Veltroni, the role of national secretary Dario Franceschini becomes Deputy Secretary, February 21, 2008


IGNAZIO MARINO

Married with a daughter, graduated in Medicine and Surgery in Rome, at the 'Catholic University. He has worked in transplant centers in Cambridge and diPittsburgh.

In 1992 he was appointed Associate Director of the National Liver Transplant Center at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Pittsburgh, the only department for organ transplants belonging to the United States Government. In 1999 he founded the 'ISMETT in Palermo - thanks a partnership between the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and the Italian government - which has been the director and the CEO.

In 2001 he performed the first transplant in Italian in a seropositive HAART. In 2002 he left his position as professor of surgery at the University of Pittsburgh and became professor of surgery at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. He has a personal series of more than 650 transplants and is the author of 635 scientific publications and 3 books.

In 2005 he published an essay for the series entitled "The Sails of Einaudi Believing and treat , which deals with the medical profession and the influence that this craft has faith, understood as a religious belief but also as a passion, solidarity and empathy with others. In 2007 he published an essay published by the foundation Italianieuropei and entitled "System health. Analysis and prospects for the future of the Italian health system. " In 2008 he published for the series "The craft of Science" Zanichelli of the book "Ideas to become transplant surgeon. A race between life and death. " In 2005 he founded Imagine Onlus, an international non-profit working in the field of international solidarity with particular attention to issues of health. In March 2006, as an independent candidate in the lists of the Democrats of the Left for the Senate in April 2006 he was elected Senator from June 6, 2006 and was chairman of the Commission on Health and Hygiene XII. Re-elected to the Senate in 2008 with the Democratic Party, is currently chairman of the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry on the effectiveness and efficiency of the National Health Service, and member of the Health Commission in the Senate. As a physician and politician Marino, Catholic, says it has a secular vision of politics and to keep on the issues ethical an independent line . The January 16 adheres to the call made by the Radical Party Transanazionale that example of what has been done in the U.S. since the inaugural committee Barack Obama Calls on Italian citizens to devote a day of service to their community.

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