98 days until the end of 2022
Virgin of Mercy
Libra
September 24th, 2022
Tomorrow is Election Day in Italy. We create a party and at the last minute we present symbol and candidates. Impossible?
That's Italian for Impossible Party.
The political campaign revolves around presenting the governance team: in order to play it safe, we choose all the Ministries directly from our Almanac.
President of the Council of Ministers
Hattie Mc Daniel
Mammy from Gone With The Wind.
A woman, black, overweight, former slave, maybe even a lesbian: what more could you want?
Defence
Giuseppe Garibaldi
The Army will love him and the citizens will always follow him (at least a thousand of 'em).
Economics and Finance
John Maynard Keynes
He's the one who invented macroeconomics; he knew more than Chruchill and Roosevelt put together.
Ecological Transition
Jules Verne & Greta Thunberg
A couple, for the first time in history: an old dreamer and an inflexible teenanger.
Sustainable Infrastructures and Mobility
Buzz Aldrin
This guy has been on the moon: that's way cooler than a bridge over a strait!
Culture
Leonardo da Vinci
& William Shakespeare
Another couple. Leonardo could be enough, but William handles storytelling much better.
We could have squeezed in Mario Draghi too, for the sake of continuity; but he's not that impossible, plus he never appeared in the Almanac.
Giving it time, the PI could become a real brand: a franchise party to export across Europe (we'll see about the world).