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Giuseppe "Pippo" Civati (born 4 August 1975) is an Italian politician and publisher, former leader of Possible and a member of the
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from 2013 to 2018.


Biography


Comunal and Regional experiences

Very close to
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, Civati was elected to the City Council of
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in 1997 and the following year he became city secretary of the
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. From 2002 to 2004 Civati has been a member of the provincial secretariat of the DS in
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, while from 2005 to 2006 he has been a member of the regional secretariat of the party in
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. In April 2005, Civati was elected in the Regional Council of
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.


In the Democratic Party

After
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's resignation, on the occasion of the 2009 Democratic Party primaries, Civati supported
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. Together with
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, Civati started in 2010 the Leopolda convention, being a member of the current of ''Rottamatori'' (Scrappers). With the passing years, Civati became critical of Renzi's positions and the two split. With the 2013 election, Civati is elected to the
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and promoted a dialogue between his party and the
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. Civati criticized the decision to form a government with
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, so he didn't support the Letta Cabinet and later voted against the Renzi Cabinet. Civati ran for the role of Secretary of the PD in occasion of the 2013 primaries, but was defeated by
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. When Renzi became
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, Civati began to clash with the leadership of the party, until he decided to leave the Democratic Party in May 2015 and founded a new
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party named Possible.


Free and Equal

Possible was one of the founder parties of the
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Free and Equal coalition. Civati ran for the
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in occasion of the 2018 election, but failed the election and later resigned from the office of Secretary of Possible.


2019 European Parliament election

On the occasion of the 2019 European Parliament election Civati he was a candidate on the
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list. After that an article by
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reported that two candidates on the list (Giuliana Farinaro and Elvira Maria Vernengo) had received support from the Green Front (led by Vincenzo Galizia, former leader of the youth section of the
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), Civati withdrew (informally) his candidacy and suspended his election campaign. Civati was the most voted candidate on the list with 12,247 preferences, but he was not elected because EV got only 2.29% of the votes, below the 4% threshold established by the Italian electoral law.


References


External links


Official blog
*Files about his parliamentary activities (in Italian)
XVII
legislature. {{DEFAULTSORT:Civati, Giuseppe 1975 births Living people People from Monza Democratic Party of the Left politicians Democrats of the Left politicians Democratic Party (Italy) politicians Possible (political party) politicians Deputies of Legislature XVII of Italy Members of the Regional Council of Lombardy University of Milan alumni