His name as a possible candidate for mayor of Milan for the center-left has been circulating for a year. Now, however, he himself has come out into the open with a phrase spoken at a small Unità festival in the Milanese suburbs, in Vizzolo Predabissi. A completely unexpected method: Mario Calabresi chose a small audience to say that he would like to “do something for Milan”. That he is available while “waiting” to evaluate events and possible calls in that colorful world that is currently the Milanese center-left (and beyond).
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First, however, some questions need to be answered. Will there be primaries or not? And above all: how many candidates will there be?
To the first question, the answer now seems to be yes. To the second, it’s still an “I don’t know”: currently, there are more than seven, but the number could grow. Calabresi, however, already falls into the category of strong candidates. The national elections, whose campaign will overlap next spring with that of the administrative elections, will also influence the course of events. Probably in Milan, the center-left primaries will be held in January, after the appointment of the sages who will screen the pool of candidates.
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Calabresi appreciated by the Milanese bourgeoisie
Mario Calabresi has a name and a reputation not linked to politics, which makes him loved by the Milanese bourgeoisie. His surname is full of history, and is notoriously a crossroads of contradictions and reflections, especially on the left: he is the son of commissioner Luigi Calabresi, killed by the will of members of Lotta Continua (according to a judicial truth often contested), accused in turn of being the instigator of the murder of the anarchist Pinelli and then rehabilitated and redefined as an unwitting victim of events. Mario Calabresi has never hidden his story; on the contrary, he has highlighted it in his narratives. He was only two years old, but this event clearly marked him forever.
Journalistic career
He is a journalist and writer, 56 years old, born and raised in Milan. He directed La Stampa between 2009 and 2015 and Repubblica from 2016 to 2019. He then founded Chora Media, of which he is editorial director. Even today, he is one of the best-selling non-fiction authors in Italy, so much so that a track from the last high school leaving exam comes from one of his books (“Alzarsi all’alba”).
