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Pubblicato sul New York Times il 9 Novembre 2012
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VERBANIA, ITALY — For nearly eight weeks, Matteo Renzi, the 37-year-old mayor of Florence, has flitted about Italy in a white camper, delivering rousing speeches with a bit of American-style campaigning as he competes in a primary vote this month that will decide who will lead Italy’s center-left Democratic Party in national elections next year.
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His campaign slogan “Adesso,” or “Now,” seems borrowed from the Obama handbook, his campaign colors are the same as the American flag, and he makes a point of addressing crowds, microphone in hand, in a jacketless, chummy manner that is a vivid contrast to Italy’s more declamatory tradition.
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