She Won Italians’ Hearts. But Can She Win Their Votes?

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She Won Italians’ Hearts. But Can She Win Their Votes?
Marta Dassù said that What is interesting is that she is a great supporter of European integration without being Eurocentric,
Three years later she was elected to the European Parliament, and she has remained in the political arena — in one form or another — ever since.
"Ode to Joy" is also the anthem of the European Union,
and Ms. Bonino has placed Italy’s commitment to the bloc at the center of her new political movement, which she has named "Più Europa," or More Europe.
She met Adele Faccio, a women’s rights advocate and abortion rights campaigner, "who spoke to me about civil disobedience, which I’d never heard of, about the Radical Party,"
and she began accompanying women to a Florentine abortion clinic.
The Saturday Profile By
ELISABETTA POVOLEDO
FEB. 9, 2018
ROME — Emma Bonino had wrapped up the keynote speech at a rally in a Rome convention center to begin her campaign for Parliament in Italy’s national elections on March 4,
and the cheery, generic background music had just come on.

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