95-year-old Italian diva Gina Lollobrigida is running for the Senate.

italian diva Gina LollobrigidaConsidered an icon of Italian cinema and one of the most glamorous actresses of the golden age of Hollywood, she decided to try her luck again in politics, as she did in the 1990s, and at 95 she will present herself senator on the lists of the left party.

Many call him a legend in the world of Italian celluloid and have been awarded golden globe in the sixties, Lollobrigida just turned 95 in July, but she retains all her energy and is now about to direct her to a new challenge: to get the Italians to vote for her to become a senator in the next legislature, after the general elections that will be held in the country on 25 September.

She is running as the main candidate in the Latina single-member senatorial district in the election. party of the Sovereign and People’s Italya new Eurosceptic political alliance that opposes the sending of weapons to Ukraine and “militant Atlanticism” and which is supported by, among other forces, the Communist Party and the Socialist Motherland.

She’s not crazy, she admits in an interview recently published in a newspaper. Corriere della Serasimply “tired of listening to the conversations of politicians without coming to a decision.”

“As long as I have energy, I will use it for important things, especially for my country,” she says, while acknowledging that if elected, she will fight “for the people to decide, from health to justice.”

“Italy there are problems, I want to do something good and positive,” he says.

The protagonist of films such as Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell D mare matto that he made his decision after talking with his lawyer, Antonio Ingroyand driven by his maximum inspiration, Mahatma Gandhi, of which he praises “his way of doing things, non-violence”.

She still does not know if she will campaign, but admits she is ready to do so if necessary, and also talks about Mario Draghiwho was Prime Minister of Italy with a Government of National Unity from February 2021 until July of this year, when he was forced to resign due to the rejection of three important partners in his coalition, the 5 Star Movement, the League and Forza Italy, who were not featured in a vote of confidence.

“I liked Draghi… I respect his work, but I don’t share it,” he says.

Gina Lollobrigida She had already tried her luck in the world of politics in the 1990s, when she ran for the Democrat Romano Prodi in the European Parliament but was not elected.

This attempt, however, did not deprive him of enthusiasm, moreover, he recalls it as an “experience” and reflects that “in life you can lose, but you can win.”

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Polls in early elections on September 25 give the conservative coalition formed by Forza Italia of Silvio Berlusconiand the far-right “Brothers of Italy” Giorgia Meloni and the “League” Matteo Salvini.

Berlusconi, who turns 86 four days after this election, recently said he was considering running for senator from the chamber from which he was expelled in 2013, following the final confirmation in court of his conviction for fraud.

This sentence deprived him of the opportunity to hold leadership positions and stand for election for several years. (EFE)