my guest is mp laura boldrini. last year, she occupied the powerful position of speaker in the lower chamber of the italian parliament. she has regularly received many threats online wishing her dead, tortured or raped. what does her experience tell us about the current political scene in italy? laura boldrini, here in rome, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much. so, you really had a meteoric rise in politics. you were only elected to parliament in 2013 as part of a very small party, the ecology freedom party, and then literally 48 hours later you'd become speaker of the lower chamber. how did that happen? well, it was a shock. it was unexpected. it was a shock for me, but for the entire country, basically, it was the first time that the speaker, the presidente, we say, was elected the second day, with two days of experience in parliament. it was because, you know, the centre—left coalition had the necessity to show new faces. the five star movement entered the parliament in that election, and therefore there wa