Leghist Lucia Borgonzoni is again undersecretary for culture

Senator Lucia Borgonzoni (League) is returning as undersecretary for culture, having previously held the same position in the Conte I government, the “yellow-green” government with a leghist traction. Lucia Borgonzoni will be alone (under Conte II, the yellow-green government, culture instead had two undersecretaries, Anna Laura Orrico of the 5 Star Movement and Lorenza Bonaccorsi of the PD.

Borgonzoni had also not been alone: she was joined by Gianluca Vacca of the 5 Star Movement. Now, however, she will be the sole undersecretary. Born in Bologna in 1976, she has a diploma from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, and after briefly following in the footsteps of her grandfather Aldo Borgonzoni (Medicina, 1913 - Bologna, 2004), one of the leading Italian artists active in the post-World War II period (scholars such as Arcangeli, Ragghianti, and Quintavalle have dealt with him), with a rapid career as an artist, she worked as an interior designer.

In the past, Lucia Borgonzoni was close to the social centers (she was a bartender in an underground club in the capital of Emilia), and began her militancy in the Northern League, of which she was formerly coordinator of the Women’s Political Group. Borgonzoni ran as a candidate of the center-right coalition in the 2016 Bologna municipal elections, where she was defeated in the runoff by current mayor Virginio Merola (Borgonzoni got 45.36 percent of the vote), and then replicated in the 2020 Emilia-Romagna regional elections, heading the coalition composed of the League, Fratelli d’Italia, Forza Italia, and Popolo della Famiglia (defeated by Stefano Bonaccini of the Pd: 51.42 percent versus 43.63 percent). She entered Parliament for the first time in the March 4, 2018 elections, elected in the Emilia Romagna 01 multi-member constituency.

She served as undersecretary for culture from June 13, 2018 to September 5, 2019. From June 21 to November 5, 2018, she was a member of the Hygiene and Health Commission, and since November 5, 2018, she has been a member of the Senate Public Education, Cultural Heritage Commission. In 2018 she had caused much controversy for publicly declaring that she had not read a book in three years, but she has been featured in several other controversies recently, for example when she lashed out last summer against a street art project in Bologna. As undersecretary, she had proposed the idea of an anti-Netflix decree: will it be taken up? Moreover, only in October, she had declared that the “Netflix of culture” strongly desired by Minister Dario Franceschini is “an idea that terrifies me.” Who knows if it will be an easy coexistence.

Leghist Lucia Borgonzoni is again undersecretary for culture

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