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Walter VeltroniWalter Veltroni (Rome, 1955) is a Italian politician and lead member of the Democrats of the Left party. He has served as Mayor of Rome since 2001. He started his political career as member of the Italian Young Communist Federation, then he served as Rome city counsellor from 1976 to 1981, before being elected as Member of Parliament for the first time in 1987. Chosen as member of the Italian Communist Party's national secretariat in 1988, he played a lead role in the party's transformation to the social-democratic party it is today. Veltroni, who is a professionist journalist, was chosen from 1992 to 1996 as editor-in-chief of the newspaper of the Democrats of the Left, L'Unit. He then successfully ran as vice-premier candidate, together with Romano Prodi, for the 1996 National Election in Italy. He left his job in office in 1998, subsequent to his election as National Secretary of the Democrats of the Left. As a candidate in 2001 for the office of Mayor of Rome, he eventually won the election. Before taking his new office, he however resigned from his lead position in the party. Bibliography Veltroni wrote several books, roaming freely among differing topics, such as music, social issues, fiction, biographies and, of course, politics. 1977 - Il PCI e la questione giovanile 1978 - A dieci anni dal 68. Intervista con Achille Occhetto 1981 - Il sogno degli anni sessanta 1982 - Il calcio una scienza da amare 1990 - Io e Berlusconi (e la Rai) 1992 - I programmi che hanno cambiato lItalia 1992 - Il sogno spezzato. Le idee di Robert Kennedy 1992 - La sfida interrotta. Le idee di Enrico Berlinguer 1994 - Certi piccoli amori 1995 - La bella politica (interview book) 1997 - Certi piccoli amori 2 1997 - Governare da sinistra 2000 - I care 2000 - Forse Dio malato. Diario di un viaggio africano 2003 - Il disco del mondo. Vita breve di Luca Flores, musicista 2004 - Senza Patricio Links External links Veltroni, Walter
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