Adu Vda and the Italian Left have announced their candidacy on the lists of the Alleanza Verdi Sinistra Andrea John Déjanazborn in 1992, from Châtillon, teacher of mathematics and science in Turin, graduate in Science and sustainable management of natural systems, activist for climate justice and president of the association Climate justice nowwho manages the club Arci Kontiki of Turin.
«Two years ago, in April 2022, Adu VdA and the Italian Left signed an agreement to open our movement to collaboration with national and European politics – specified Alex Glarey, presenting the young professor’s candidacy in Aosta on the afternoon of Tuesday 30 April 2024 – we had in fact traced the knots of our politics, from pacifism to investments in public health, from taxes on wealth to the reception of migrants, naturally also passing through the issue of rights. The agreement provided that during electoral consultations of both a national and local nature, the Italian Left and Adu VdA would promote mutual support both in terms of the electoral campaign and in terms of possible candidates”.
«This is the moment, as it was in the last political elections, to give substance to that agreement – announced the member of the board of the left-wing political movement – and therefore Adu VdA will be alongside the Italian Left, which is one of the pillars of the Alleanza Verdi Sinistra, which is a political project between the Greens and the Italian Left, as we like to say, between social justice and climate justice. AVS had a good result in the latest elections, obtaining over 3.5% of the votes and therefore electing 16 parliamentarians. Now we are relaunching for the European elections, the polls show us beyond the 4% barrier and confirm that this is the right path to build a unitary and alternative project to the sovereignist and liberal right”.
«Our idea is of a stronger Europe – Alex Glarey underlined again – in which the citizens’ Parliament counts more than the Commission, too often influenced by lobbies, and which is no longer blocked by the veto right of countries like Hungary which exploit the European Union only on an economic level without joining to his political platform. Precisely regarding Hungary, I remember that our candidate Ilaria Salis will be the leader in the North West and in addition to John we will also ask you to vote for her, knowing full well that we do not think of her as an MEP but that this will be a battle to free Ilaria and the Europe after a year of preventive prison in undignified and inhuman conditions”.
«It is with great pleasure and honor that we present to you Andrea Déjanaz, known as John – added Daria Pulz – we are really happy that he wanted to accept our candidacy proposal which we had already been thinking about for over a year. We all agree that John is the right candidate in this wrong historical moment. This is a difficult time in which the right, even extreme ones, dominate and therefore we think that countering them in some way is first and foremost a moral and civil duty, by resisting”.
«Over ten years ago I heard John speak at a public meeting – recalled the former regional councilor, also on the board of Adu VdA – he was in his early twenties and hearing him intervene I was amazed at how much talent this boy had. John wasted no time, he is an Aosta Valley man down to the last hair but he is a citizen of the world. After graduating in Science and sustainable management of natural systems at the University of Turin, he then chose Turin as his city of choice also for the job he loves, which is that of an already tenured mathematics and science teacher. He is therefore very well known and much loved both in Valle d’Aosta and in Piedmont and elsewhere, especially by young people but also by otherwise young people for his constant social and political commitment ».
«John shares his commitment with many knowledgeable and sensitive people – continued Daria Pulz – that those are the causes on which the scientific community has been insisting for some time, but many politicians do not want to listen and continue undaunted in their deafness. John testifies in our eyes to the fact that it is not true that politicians are all the same but that there are still those who are very clear about what the common good is or what it should be and he also demonstrates this by accepting this undoubtedly challenging candidacy for the Italian Left Green Alliance”.
«I accepted this candidacy mainly due to the urgency I have felt for many years regarding the climate crisis – then highlighted Andrea John Déjanaz, in his second electoral competition after the 2022 elections where he was on the list of the Green Left Alliance, where the deputy Marco Grimaldi was elected – this is a fundamentally social crisis and therefore we are convinced that to solve the climate problem we must improve people’s lives. We have seen that in the past five years the Europe that has been built up to now has points on which we agree and many things that we do not like, a liberal Europe in which many rich people have become richer and richer and in where inequality has grown”.
«But there is an air of change towards an authoritarian and nationalist Europe – he remarked – towards which we oppose and propose a Europe that puts climate justice and social justice at the centre. We believe that climate commitments must be reviewed and that Europe must lead the way, and why not, Italy but above all the Aosta Valley which is a region that in some ways is very advanced from this point of view, can represent them and give a signal of direction to the rest of Europe on the climate and the defense of the territory».
«The right has a very clear enemy. they are those ecological movements that ask to change everything and to put an end to that fossil era that has created great inequalities and great conflicts – declared Marco Grimaldi, AVS deputy group leader in the Chamber, presenting the Aosta Valley candidate, in a video recorded for the occasion – we are very proud to nominate one of the faces of those ecological movements such as Fridays for futures which ask us to change everything right here in the North West. You know Andrea John Déjanaz well, he is from your land, but we also know him very well in Turin, because he is the president of the first Arci club formed by those activists who ask like all of us that those changes are part of a new paradigm ».
Andrea John Déjanaz will therefore be one of the twenty people nominated for the North-West constituency on the AVS list. Among the candidates already announced on the list, for the various constituencies, they stand out Mimmo Lucanoformer mayor of Riace, considered by the proponents to be a symbol of solidarity and integration, Marilena Grassadoniaformer president of the Rainbow Families association, head of rights and freedoms of the Italian Left and coordinator of the LGBT+ rights office of Roma Capitale, Ignazio Marinosurgeon and former mayor of Rome e Ilaria Salisa teacher from Brianza, detained for more than a year in Hungary and accused of having participated, in February 2023, in the attack on neo-Nazi militants in Budapest.
