Pierluigi Bersani defines himself as “a political volunteer”: former minister, former party secretary, former regional president, former MEP, who today, with his book “Ask me who the Beatles were”, travels around Italy to talk about young people and politics, after having toured Italy talking to young people about politics. And from here we start, in Messina, in the interview with the director of Gazzetta del Sud, Nino Rizzo Nervo, in front of an audience that makes the spacious stock exchange hall of the Chamber of Commerce seem too small. A sign that, as Maria Flavia Timbro says when introducing the meeting (before her greetings from the president of the chamber of commerce, Ivo Blandina, and the regional and provincial secretaries of the Democratic Party, Anthony Barbagallo and Armando Hyerace), «this is a city where politics is needed». In his book, which Rizzo Nervo defines as “a manual of good politics”, Bersani reveals “evidence” that emerged from many discussions with young people: “It is not true that this generation is disinterested in politics.” Indeed, “there is an acute and profound perception of the real problems of today, war, rights, immigration, work, the condition of women”.
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