With the blessing of the Pope, Scholas starts a political training school: it is run by a former official from Larreta

ROMA.- With the blessing of Pope Francis, the Pontifical Scholas Occurrentes Foundation, which works for a culture of encounter through an educational network in 190 countries, will launch a political training school this Thursday inspired by All the brothers, the last encyclical of the Pontiff on fraternity and social friendship.

“The idea is to reduce the All the brothers something concrete, ”he walked over to THE NATION José María del Corral, global director of Scholas, who revealed that at the head of the School of Political Training will be Juan Ignacio Maquieyra, 34-year-old politician linked to the Pro, who recently resigned his post of Advisor to the Buenos Aires cabinet of Horacio Rodríguez Larreta and that he was president of the Institut d’Habitat de la Ville, with which he sought to urbanize and integrate the villages.

Maquieyra rose to fame when in 2012, as a master’s student at Harvard and already a member of Pro, make him a uncomfortable question to then-President Cristina Kirchner, on a possible third re-election after a modification of the Constitution.

A graduate in political science from the Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA), Maquieyra was born in General Pico, province of La Pampa and has just arrived from there to Buenos Aires to study, at the age of 19 he began to work in politics with the senator today. Esteban bullrich at the Ministry of Education.

“At the School of Political Training, we are not looking for a single thought, but for openness and values ​​and between 20 and 50 young people from all over the world from the right, from the left, Muslims, Jews, etc., between 18 and 30 years, will be able to register ”, he declared. Del Corral, stressing that the initiative has no political color, aware that this will cause errors of interpretation and manipulation as always, especially in the homeland of the Pope.

“The idea is to bring together kids disillusioned with politics who would like to get into politics and help them do it in a year and a half.he enthusiastically explained del Corral, who has known Jorge Bergoglio for a long time. In this sense, he recalled that Scholas Occurrentes, an educational reality which today has a global reach, dates back to The neighborhood schools that Jorge Bergoglio promoted 20 years ago being Archbishop of Buenos Aires, with two professors: he and Enrique Palmeyro, who is also the global director of the foundation. “There, in the neighborhood schools, we just saw the need to connect children to politics,” he said.

Although the administrative seat is in the Vatican, the School of Political Formation “will be itinerant and global” and, moreover, completely free. “It will not be Harvard,” joked del Corral, who pointed out that the Training School is inspired by Pope Francis’ encyclical Fratelli Tutti, a document which calls for the rehabilitation of politics and which devotes a chapter precisely to “The best policy”.

Del Corral said that although the school will have a virtual part, its great contribution will be the practical experiences that its participants can have in the communities that Scholas has across the world, from Paraguay to the jungle of Mozambique. “For example, we will take the young Irish or Iraqi who really has a vocation for politics, with a capital P, to live for two months in the house that we are inaugurating in El Impenetrable, Chaco, where they will be able to see this kind of reality that people live, ”he explained.

Indeed, Scholas Occurrentes will deal first of all with the humanist training of future politicians, while the “technical” part will be the Liderar Con Sentido Común Foundation which directs Antonio Sola, well-known Spanish political strategist and campaign advisor to various political figures, 44 years old.

“The idea is that there is a renewal of politics from the bottom up,” summed up del Corral, who stressed that this launch will be just one of the novelties that Pope Francis will give his blessing on Thursday, when ‘he will visit the city again. Roman seat of Scholas in Palazzo San Calisto, Trastevere district.

As planned, in this event the Pope will meet again the first lady, Fabiola Yáñez, whom he received in audience with Alberto Fernández and his entourage last Thursday and who remained in Rome precisely to participate in a block dedicated to the solidarity group who integrates with the wives of Latin American presidents committed to the Pontifical Foundation. The event can be followed live via Vatican Media Live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtlFK1OVhAI

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