First Political Experiences
He began his commitment in associations taking part in the peace movement in 1982. At seventeen years old is one of the founders of the anti-racist association "Nero e non solo", commetted to immigration politics and in a multicultural and multiethnic society.
Belonging to the ranks of the Italian Communist Party, in 1991 he was elected National Secretary of Democrats of the Left youth federation (Sinistra Giovanile) and in the following year he was a member of the Rome Municipale Council. Those were years of commitment to sustainable development and environmental protection, against the Mafia, during which he organized the first Antimafia youth camp in San Vito Lo Capo and numerous initiatives in memory of Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino. From 1995 to 1997 he was President of the International Union of Socialist Youth (IUSY) and Vice President of the Socialist International. In these years, he was committed to rebuild the network with the parties and with the democratic and progressive youth organizations in Bosnia and Herzegovina. After the signing of the Dayton Accords in December 1995, spoke in the United Nations General Assembly for the Year of World Youth Day, as a Representative in the United Nations Committee.
In 1998, when he was thirty-tree years old, he joined the Commission to draw up the Socialist political platform for the new century, "Global Progress", chaired by Felipe Gonzales and made, among others, by Martine Aubry, Shimon Peres and Ricardo Lagos. He was also committed for the peace process between Israel and Palestine, organizing many initiatives to promote dialogue between young Israeli Labour Party and the youth of "Fatah".
From 1998 to 2000 he was international relations spokesman of Democrats of the Left and in 1998 he organized the Congress of European Socialists, in Milan. In 1999 with a Democrats of the Left delegation (also with Walter Veltroni) he went to Burma in support of the National League for Democracy and met the Nobel Peace Prize for 1991 Aung San Suu Kyi. The same year he organized the journey of the Dalai Lama in Rome.
In 2000 he was elected Secretary of Democrats of the Left in Rome. In the following year he was one of the promoters of the candidacy of Walter Veltroni for Mayor of Rome, contributing to his victory. He is among the protagonists of a season of important results for the left-wing and for the Democrats of the Left: in 2003, after eight years, they become again the largest party in the capital city, defeating the right-wing in the whole province of Rome.
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