Andrea Simone Leruzzi, leader of the Democratic Party who died at the age of 36. The memory of Debora Serracchiani: “The best of us is gone”

He was “the best of us,” he recalls. Debora Serracchiani. Andrea Simone Lerussi, from Udine de Basaldella, young director of the P.S, it is died at 36 for incurable illness, discovered a year ago. Lerussi, like the Messenger of Veneto, had begun to participate in politics as student representative between 2007 and 2009, as a member of the Academic Senate and Board of Directors from the University of Friuli. So activism in the ranks of Democratic party, until the candidacy in the 2008 provincial elections. First of the unelected, he still managed to sit 15 months later at the headquarters of Debora Serracchiani, who was meanwhile elected to the European Parliament.

Originally from Basaldella, in 2013 Lerussi graduated from Law with a thesis entitled “The commission of local public services”. He worked in the Region as a private secretary of the Department of Infrastructure, Mariagrazia Santoro and later as an employee of the secretary of the council of democrats. Until the disease took him away. “We had two different characters,” recalled the leader of the Democratic Party in the city of Udine., Alessandro Venanzi, “But the very belief that politics was the tool to leave a better world to those who came after us. Our passion accompanied by sharing values ​​that have been the daily guide of our actions. You could mediate in everything, but not in that.

Among the many messages of condolence also that of the regional councilor of Friuli, Furio honsell de Open and former rector of the University of Udine: “I met him in 2007 as a student representative at the University of Udine – he remembers. Since then he has shown marked political intelligence, commitment and preparation. It is a great loss for everyone. His memory will forever be a model for those who believe that the meaning of life is to bet on a better world for everyone ”.

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