It is not the first time that the name of Pier Ferdinando Casini has been included in the Quirinale as a whole. Already in 2015 the former Speaker of the Chamber, who today obtained over 50 preferences in the third vote, was, in fact, mentioned among the ‘quirinabili’. Moreover, from the height of 38 years in Parliament and his almost fifty-year political career, he boasts a profile and relationships that make him appear fully in the running for the highest hill.
His, among those that circulate, is the most political name of all as he somehow remembered himself with the post sent yesterday on Instagram that portrayed him during a congress of young DCs still not even twenty years old. ‘Political passion is my life !!’, he wrote. Bolognese doc, born in 1955, is a son of art: his father was a leader of the Christian Democrats. By the time he graduates in law, he has already begun to take an interest in politics. Member of the DC since 1972, he was elected to the Chamber in 1983 at the age of 28, with 30,000 preferences.
In 1987 he joined the national leadership of the party. Contrary to the transformation of the DC into an Italian People’s Party (PPI), in January 1994 he created the Christian Democratic Center (CCD) with a minority, which looks to the right, to Silvio Berlusconi and Gianfranco Fini (“Since 1994 we have separated “, Rosy Bindi will once recall). Deputy from 1983, European parliamentarian from 1994 to 2001, after the victory of the center-right at the politics of that year he was elected president of the Chamber. In 2002 he founded the UDC. With the end of the 15th legislature, he interrupts his alliance with the center-right and is a candidate with his party for the presidency of the council. The relationship with Berlusconi is fluctuating. Of course, not conflictual like the one that the Knight has with the other centrist leader of those years, Marco Follini, but still frank. Made of ruptures and returns from the ‘prodigal son’ until the definitive abandonment of the center-right area.
Casini, in any case, has good relations with everyone and in all sides, perhaps also thanks to the slightly light-hearted Bolognese attitude that has always represented a trait of his character. “He is not a good boy, he is a Christian Democrat boy”, Umberto Bossi once said of him. The Senatur which, at Christmas, prophesied the ascent of the former president of the Chamber to the Quirinale.
Even in these days in the Chamber, as in Christian Democratic practice, many hands clenched, jokes and smiles dispensed in the Transatlantic. Casini once again a man of dialogue, fully in the running for the Colle.
Source From: Ansa
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