(AGI) – Rome, Italy, Jan 16 – Following the election of Latin America’s first ever woman president Italian politicians have issued a range of comments.
According to unreformed communist PRC party secretary Fausto Bertinotti: “Latin America’s renaissance is spreading. The people and the projects we are seeing are an indication of calls for profound change in South America’s future; they represent calls for a greater degree of freedom from North American policies; approaches may differ country to country, but the wind of change is driving home an idea of Latin American policy.
From Venezuela to Brazil, from Argentina to Cuba, Latin America seeks to change the balance of economic leverage between the northern and southern hemisphere, the poor and the rich. Bolivia’s Evo Morales yesterday, Chile’s Michelle Bachelet now, are broadening that very path to alternatives. Our hope is that this become a lesson to Europe too”.
According to law-and-order IDV party’s Wanda Montanelli “Michelle Bachelet’s election in Chile proves that South America, where no woman has ever held such high office to date, things are changing for the better”. According to IDV’s equal opportunities delegate Bachelet’s election “is the kind of news which cheers the heart on, especially on account of her personal and political history”.
According to the Italian Communist Party’s PDCI Katia Bellillo Chile’s elections have resulted in the appointment of the “first ever female, socialist and antifascist to hold presidential office in a country that size. Her personal and political history prove women have the right stuff; thinking of Italy, it proves how ghettos and fences have held women’s emancipation at bay. Bachelet’s a strong, able woman. She has made no secret of her diverse opinions; she chose to have children outside of marriage, she ploughed on with a firm belief in her values; the kind of values which would typically stand to characterise the Left. It’s about equal rights. To us Michelle Bachelet is a symbol: we will follow her example here in Italy. We must succeed in ensuring that rights are truly equal”.
Socialist party “Nuovo PSI” Secretary Bobo Craxi, says: “we have a socialist woman, whose father had opposed the military regime, and who as an political exile led the reformist opposition: it’s proof of a democratic coming of age in Chile. On behalf of the Nuovo PSI I wish to hail this great victory”.
According to the post-communist DS party’s Gianni Pittella “Michelle Bachelet’s success proves the country’s democratic maturity: for the first time in South America a woman is elected president. Her appointment paves the way towards greater women’s participation in politics and greater standards of equality between the genders. Participation and mutual respect, equal opportunities will lead onto a phase of greater development and progress for the nation, its families and citizens”.
According to PRC’s Elettra Deiana “Chile is at the heart of an extraordinary win for a ripe democracy: Michelle Bachelet’s election is doubly precious in that it marks a success for socialists and for women. Bachelet, a woman and a socialist, was a victim at the hands of Pinochet’s regime; up until recent times there was no room for women in public appointments. Events prove things have undergone a radical change”.

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