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Nicola (Nichi) Vendola (born
26 August 1958), is an
Italian politician and the president of
Apulia region.
Life
Born in
Terlizzi,
province of Bari, Vendola was a member of the Communists Youth Federation since the age of 14, he studied
literature in university, presenting a
dissertation about the controversial poet and movie director
Pier Paolo Pasolini. He then went on to become a journalist for
L'Unità, and a leading member of the Italian gay organisation
Arcigay.
A member of the National Secretariat of the
Italian Communist Party, he fiercely opposed the dissolution of the party proposed by
Achille Occhetto in
1991 and joined the
Communist Refoundation Party.
In
1992 he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies and has held his seat ever since. As a member of the
Antimafia Commission, he came to prominence as a strong opponent of the
Mafia and organised crime.
In
2005 he ran for the first
primary election ever held in Italy, called to choose the left-wing
L'Unione alliance's candidate for the presidency of the
Puglia region. He won the primary over the rival Francesco Boccia. Many moderates in the alliance criticised the choice, since it appeared impossible that a communist and
homosexual could be elected president of a southern Italian region such as Apulia, generally considered to be conservative and strongly
Catholic. Vendola, though, declares himself as "believer" (in the line of
Pax Christi): he once said that "the most important book for a communist like me is the Bible".
In the regional election in Puglia, held in
April 2005, he narrowly defeated the outgoing president
Raffaele Fitto, candidate for
House of Freedoms, thus becoming the first member of the Communist Refoundation Party to be elected as president of any Italian region.
Vendola is also a poet: some of his poems have been collected in a book, named
L'ultimo mare ("The last sea"). His figure has inspired a biographical film,
Nichi.
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