ELISA SERGI is a young Fiorentine girl. At the age of eighteen, she worked on TV as a show girl. I happen to know her very well, we could say that we are good friends, therefore my point of view can be misunderstood as biased but it is not, I am trying just to report the truth and to be fair.
I really think that people who have been working in politics in Florence so far, are middle age with rather conservative point of view, and I think young people, could be exactly what we (voter) are looking for at the present time.
Why her ? Why not !
Elisa is young, she has a degree in psicology and is currently taking her masters , she has been working like a journalist for a long time. She has always been interested in politics, in her family everyone has a high education and she grew up in a proper environment. We used to hang out together and also talk about italian politics as I studied political science and this has always been my interest. Elisa always had a clear idea in what she wants for Florence and now it looks like she has the opportunity to show that a young girl with a good education can make it happen.
I wouldn’t want that the polemic around her is just used as a way to fight between the two parties and I wouldn’t want her career as a politician to be destroyed just because at the age of eighteen, as hundred of girls wanted to be famous. However working like a show girl and having all this picture almost naked do not help her to make people take her seriously but I do not think we should put everyone at the same level. She was a show girl when she was eighteen but now she is a psychologist and works like a journalist, therefore she has the right to be respected for what she is doing now, and if this gives her publicity, we cannot but hope that people wont stop at the title but will read the whole article, as see that she is a smart, young, professional.
As she is starting from a low position in politics, she will have time to improve and to show if she is worth to be in politics and not like in other cases when people without experience and not even a degree, had an important position and we (voters) had no the time and way to reply to such an imposition.
- Elisa Sergi and me in one of our nights out together in Florence
www.elisasergi.it
Antonietta Fishta
London
