Walter Veltroni

by Editorial Team | Jan 10, 2010 in Authors | Leave A Comment

A politician and journalist, he was born in Rome (where he has always lived) in 1955.
Married with two daughters, in May 2006 he was elected for his second term as Mayor of Rome.
His political career began in Rome when he was appointed as a city councillor in 1976. Appointed as a member of the national secretariat of the Italian Communist Party, he was one of the key figures behind the birth of the Partito Democratico della Sinistra (Democrats of the Left). In 1995, together with Romano Prodi, he founded Ulivo and in 1996 was Vice President of the Council and Ministry for Cultural Heritage under Prodi’s administration. In 1998, he was elected as National Secretary of the Democrats of the Left, and a year later was elected as a member of the European Parliament. A former director of the newspaper “l’Unità”, he has written a number of books on politics, cinema and current affairs. He is strongly committed to eradicating Third World debt and to focusing international attention on Africa and its fight against hunger and poverty.