Elly Schlein in Basilicata: “Call ten, twenty people who don’t vote and convince them. Make a difference”

«Basilicata is a land that deserves a better future. This is a redemption battle. It will be a difficult campaign, we will have the right as opponents and also abstentionism. The right has lists full of candidates willing to go house to house, but when you are at the ballot box they don’t see you. Give a vow of freedom and redemption for this land. When you are at the polls, you look at yourself in the mirror.” So therethe national secretary of the Democratic Party, Elly Schleincloses his appeal to vote on the stage of an electoral meeting in Potenza in support of the presidential candidate Piero Marrese.

In his speech Schlein talks about healthcare, public schools and then differentiated autonomy. «Why doesn’t the mayor of the League ask his party to stop with differentiated autonomy? Why put the party before the city?” she comments from the stage. «Since there was the first government in history led by a woman, the national fund for schools and children has decreased. Do we want to support families? Let’s make an investment in nursery schools, I am not resigned to the fact that in this land and in other regions of the South there are the lowest female employment rates in Europe. The burden of care falls on families, disproportionately on the shoulders of women. Let’s immediately grant an equal five-month paid leave for both parents.” She continues on the Stellantis factories in Melfi. «We must fight for an industrial plan capable of guiding transformations, we must ask and demand common investments from Europe. This right does not bring results on an economic and social level, so it has decided to stick a flag a day in the eyes of the most discriminated groups.”

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Then the secretary of the Democratic Party moves on to current events, talking about the decision to let anti-abortion associations enter the clinics. «The Democratic Party will defend the right to abortion and women’s right to choose about their own bodies. There is not just one type of family, traditional. None of them have it, by the way.” And she closes on the school: «I was worried about the words of Minister Valditara, who started talking about quotas. I don’t see Italians and foreigners in schools, I see boys and girls. They call them foreigners, but 70 percent were born and raised in Italy.”