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Nicola (Nichi) Vendola (born 26 August 1958), is an Italian politician and the president of Apulia region (he refused in fact to use in public the title of governor, commonly attributed to former tenants of the post). Image File history File links Download high resolution version (750x638, 341 KB) Summary Nichi Vendola (1958-vivente) al Gay Pride di Grosseto, giugno 2004. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (750x638, 341 KB) Summary Nichi Vendola (1958-vivente) al Gay Pride di Grosseto, giugno 2004. ... August 26 is the 238th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (239th in leap years). ... Year 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the Italian region. ...

Life

Born in Terlizzi, province of Bari, Vendola was a member of the Communists Youth Federation since the age of 14, he studied literature in university, presenting a dissertation about the controversial poet and movie director Pier Paolo Pasolini. He then went on to become a journalist for L'Unità, and a leading member of the Italian gay organisation Arcigay. This page meets Wikipedias criteria for speedy deletion. ... The stemma of Provincia di Bari Bari (It. ... Old book bindings at the Merton College library. ... This article is about the thesis in dialectics and academia. ... Pier Paolo Pasolini (March 5, 1922 - November 2, 1975) was an Italian poet, intellectual, film director, and writer. ... LUnità is an Italian newspaper, published by Democrats of the Left. ...

A member of the National Secretariat of the Italian Communist Party, he fiercely opposed the dissolution of the party proposed by Achille Occhetto in 1991 and joined the Communist Refoundation Party. The Partito Comunista Italiano (PCI) or Italian Communist Party emerged as Partito Comunista dItalia or Communist Party of Italy from a secession by the Leninist comunisti puri tendency from the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) during that bodys congress on 21 January 1921 at Livorno. ... Achille Occhetto (born 1936) is an Italian political figure. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Communist Refoundation Party (Italian: Partito della Rifondazione Comunista) is an Italian reformed communist party. ...

In 1992 he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies and has held his seat ever since. As of Anti-Mafia Commissioner, he came to prominence as a strong opponent of organised crime. 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... The Sicilian Mafia (also referred to simply as the Mafia or Cosa Nostra), is a criminal secret society which first developed in the mid-19th century in Sicily. ...

In 2005 he ran for the first primary election ever held in Italy, called to choose the left-wing L'Unione alliance's candidate for the presidency of the Puglia region. To the surprise of many, he won the primary over the rival Francesco Boccia. Many moderates in the alliance criticised the choice, since it appeared impossible that a communist, and even worse a homosexual, could be elected president of a southern Italian region such as Apulia, generally considered to be conservative and strongly Catholic. Vendola, though, declares himself as "believer" (in the line of Pax Christi): he once said that "the most important book for a communist like me is the Bible". 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A primary election is an election in which voters in a jurisdiction select candidates for a subsequent election (nominating primary). ... The Union (Italian: LUnione) is an Italian centre-left political party coalition. ... Apulia is a region of Italy (called Puglia in Italian), bordering on Molise to the north-west, Campania to the south-west, Basilicata to the south, the Adriatic Sea to the east and the Ionian Sea to the south-east. ... Homosexuality refers to sexual interaction and / or romantic attraction between individuals of the same sex. ... Pax Christi is an international Catholic peace movement, which nowadays regards itself as ecumenical. ...

In the regional election in Puglia, held in April 2005, he narrowly defeated the outgoing president Raffaele Fitto, candidate for House of Freedoms, thus becoming the first member of the Communist Refoundation Party to be elected as president of any Italian region. Casa delle Libertà, or House of Freedoms in English, is an Italian right of center party alliance led by national media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi. ...

Vendola is also a poet: some of his poems have been collected in a book, named L'ultimo mare ("The last sea"). His figure has inspired a biographical film, Nichi.

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