Elly Schlein

Elly Schlein
Elly Schlein
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 13 October 2022
Constituency	Emilia-Romagna
Vice President of Emilia-Romagna
	In office; 28 February 2020 – 24 October 2022
President	Stefano Bonaccini
Preceded by	Raffaele Donini
Succeeded by	Irene Priolo
Member of the European Parliament
	In office; 1 July 2014 – 2 July 2019
Constituency	North-East Italy
Personal details
Born	Elena Ethel Schlein; 4 May 1985 (age 38); Lugano, Switzerland
Nationality	Italian, Swiss, American
Political party	PD (2013–2015); Pos (2015–2019); GI (since 2021)
Alma mater	University of Bologna
Occupation	Politician, film production secretary

Elena "Elly" Ethel Schlein (born 4 May 1985) is an Italian politician.

Biography[edit]

Daughter of two academics, Schlein graduated in Law at the University of Bologna in 2011, discussing a thesis on Constitutional Law.^[1]

Political commitment[edit]

In 2011, Schlein was one of the founders of the association of university students known as Progrè, an association that dealt with deepening and sensitizing public opinion on issues related to migration policies and the prison reality.^[2]

Former Prime Minister Romano Prodi received in support less than 100 centre-left electors and left the presidential election campaign. In April 2013, Schlein gave life to the mobilization campaign known as #OccupyPD, which opposed the formation of a grand coalition government, the Letta Cabinet.^[3]

In occasion of the 2013 leadership election of the Democratic Party, Schlein gave her support to Giuseppe Civati, who ranked third.^[4]

Member of the European Parliament[edit]

In February 2014, Schlein ran with the Democratic Party for a seat at the European Parliament in the North-Eastern constituency. In the 2014 European election, Schlein was elected to the European Parliament.^[5]

In May 2015, she announced, through a post on Facebook, that she was leaving the Democratic Party, being in deep disagreement with the new political line of the party impressed by Secretary Matteo Renzi, and joined Possible, the party founded by Giuseppe Civati.^[6]

In April 2019, Schlein announced her intention not to run for the European Parliament at the 2019 European election.^[7]

Personal life[edit]

Schlein's father is Jewish;^[8] her grandfather was Italian Socialist politician Agostino Viviani.^[9] She is bisexual.^[10]

References[edit]

^ "L'isola di Elly". ciwati.it. 17 May 2014. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
^ "Chi siamo | Progrè". web.archive.org. 2014-05-29. Retrieved 2022-10-04.
^ "#Occupypd, sedi di partito occupate dai giovani del Pd" [#Occupypd, party offices occupied by the youth of the Democratic Party]. Corriere della Sera (in Italian).
^ "Elly Schlein, Civati segretario per il cambiamento: 'Il PD ha sbagliato tutto dopo le primarie'" [Elly Schlein, Civati secretary for change: 'The PD got it all wrong after the primaries']. BolognaToday (in Italian). 3 December 2013.
^ "Europee, parla la civatiana Elly Schlein: "Vince il Pd, ma serve riflessione sul governo"". L'Espresso. 22 May 2014. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
^ "Elly Schlein: "Volevo riportare Prodi nel Pd ma ora non sopporto più le troppe scelte di destra"". La Repubblica. 9 May 2015. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
^ "Schlein: "Europarlamento addio, ecco perchè non mi ricandido"". La Repubblica. 12 April 2019. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
^ "Sapevi che Elly Schlein ha frequentato il DAMS? Tutto sulla giovane politica". Donna Glamour (in Italian). 2020-02-12. Retrieved 2022-10-04.
^ Salati, Di Alexia. "Il dubbio: Agostino Viviani, l'avvocato che sfidò le toghe. E perse… – Elly Schlein" (in Italian). Retrieved 2022-10-04.
^ Zincone, Vittorio (2020-02-21). "Elly Schlein, amori bisex e la politica per caso: «Ma io sognavo il cinema»". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). Retrieved 2022-10-04.

External links[edit]

Files about her parliamentary activities in the European Parliament (in Italian): VIII legislature.
Sciorilli Borrelli, Silvia (13 February 2020). "Meet the Italian left's rising star". POLITICO.
Schlein, Elly (2018). "L'Europa tra riforma della Convenzione di Dublino, muri e migration compact" [Europe between the reform of the Dublin Convention, walls and migration compact]. In Calabrò, Anna Rita (ed.). Quaderni del Master in 'Immigrazione, Genere, Modelli Familiari e Strategie di Integrazione' n. 4: Strategie per un mondo nuovo: prospettive di gestione dei flussi migratori provenienti dall’Africa (in Italian). Ledizioni. pp. 111–118. ISBN 978-88-6705-893-8.
Aggestam, Karin; De Vos, Dieneke; Schlein, Elly; Viseur Sellers, Patricia (2016). Role of women in conflict and peacemaking. hdl:1814/67571.
Schlein, Elly (Winter 2018). "Migration is not an emergency" (PDF). Great Insights. 7 (1): 18–19.

[1] "L'isola di Elly". ciwati.it. 17 May 2014. Retrieved 13 April 2019.

[2] "Chi siamo | Progrè". web.archive.org. 2014-05-29. Retrieved 2022-10-04.

[3] "#Occupypd, sedi di partito occupate dai giovani del Pd" [#Occupypd, party offices occupied by the youth of the Democratic Party]. Corriere della Sera (in Italian).

[4] "Elly Schlein, Civati segretario per il cambiamento: 'Il PD ha sbagliato tutto dopo le primarie'" [Elly Schlein, Civati secretary for change: 'The PD got it all wrong after the primaries']. BolognaToday (in Italian). 3 December 2013.

[5] "Europee, parla la civatiana Elly Schlein: "Vince il Pd, ma serve riflessione sul governo"". L'Espresso. 22 May 2014. Retrieved 13 April 2019.

[6] "Elly Schlein: "Volevo riportare Prodi nel Pd ma ora non sopporto più le troppe scelte di destra"". La Repubblica. 9 May 2015. Retrieved 13 April 2019.

[7] "Schlein: "Europarlamento addio, ecco perchè non mi ricandido"". La Repubblica. 12 April 2019. Retrieved 13 April 2019.

[8] "Sapevi che Elly Schlein ha frequentato il DAMS? Tutto sulla giovane politica". Donna Glamour (in Italian). 2020-02-12. Retrieved 2022-10-04.

[9] Salati, Di Alexia. "Il dubbio: Agostino Viviani, l'avvocato che sfidò le toghe. E perse… – Elly Schlein" (in Italian). Retrieved 2022-10-04.

[10] Zincone, Vittorio (2020-02-21). "Elly Schlein, amori bisex e la politica per caso: «Ma io sognavo il cinema»". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). Retrieved 2022-10-04.

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