"Salvini and Landini, in very different ways, are two television phenomena. But if politics has no connection with reality and ceases to be part of everyday life, it produces characters who are nothing more than talk show props."
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Salvini e Landini, in modo molto diverso, sono due fenomeni televisivi. Ma se la politica non ha attinenza con la realtà e smette di essere vita quotidiana produce personaggi che sono solamente soprammobili da talk tv. — Matteo Renzi. As quoted in Renzi: "Landini come Salvini: sono fenomeni tv, soprammobili da talk show", Il Fatto Quotidiano.it (March 30, 2015)
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Maurizio Landini
Maurizio Landini (born 1961) is an Italian trade unionist. Since January 2019, he is the General Secretary of CGIL. He was also former general secretary of FIOM from 2010 to 2017. Landini is considered a socialist and is famous for his populist political style.
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