In Italy, former actress Gina Lollobrigida has announced her candidacy for the Senate in the next legislative elections scheduled for the end of September in the country.
“I’m tired of listening to politicians arguing with each other without doing anything,” she said in an interview with the Italian newspaper. Corriere della Sera.
“I will fight for people to decide, from health to justice; Italy is bad, I want to do something good and positive,” added the nonagenarian actress who has starred in more than sixty films, including fanfan the tulip Where Notre Dame of Paris.
Gina Lollobrigida will appear on the lists of the Sovereign and Popular Italian Alliance, a coalition that brings together the Communist Party and other Eurosceptic left-wing parties.
A first attempt in 1999
This is not the first time that Gina Lollobrigida has attempted an adventure in politics. In 1999, at the age of 73, the icon of Italian cinema from the 1950s and 1960s had already stood for the European elections on the list of the Democratic Party headed by anti-corruption magistrate Antonio di Pietro, without success.
“It was an experience. In life you can lose and you can win, “says the actress in the columns of the Corriere della Sera.
Source: BFM TV