The wedding will be celebrated on the 17th, the party is at the Cadelach di Revine. He was supposed to celebrate Zaia, but she declined. The groom is a longtime friend of the “captain”.
CONEGLIANO. Galeotto was the lockdown. Senator Gian Marco Centinaio, former minister of agriculture, now undersecretary, 50 next October, will marry the forty-year-old Coneglianese Silvia Gallina on 17 July. They met – the couple’s friends report – last year, a few weeks before the pandemic forced all known distancing measures. And it was love right away.
The couple will get married in Revine, on the Cadelach meadows. The President of the Region, Luca Zaia, had been invited to celebrate the civil ceremony, but he had to decline, for already established institutional commitments. Friends say that Matteo Salvini will intervene, given in the living room for a few days at the Revine lakes.
Certainly it is known that Centinaio’s witnesses will be Luciano Nieto, former director of Confagricoltura Pavia and a trusted man by the former minister, even in his experiences of government; the other, the husband of the undersecretary’s sister.
“Little politics at my wedding and a rather intimate and reserved ceremony – explains Centinaio to those who reached him on the phone -. Matteo Salvini could be there: obviously not as the leader of the League, but as my long-time personal friend. However, it depends on Salvini’s political agenda, which is constantly evolving ».
Both, Centinaio and Gallina, are veterans of previous marriages. Maximum discretion of the two betrothed on their relationship. The former minister begged his friends for secrecy. Even the publication of the wedding, in the town hall in Conegliano, did not find rebounds for her.
«Even the banquet will be in line with my political activity, therefore focusing on local products – explains Centinaio -. but in order not to do any wrong to either the groom from Pavia or the bride from Treviso, there will be both the wine of the Prosecco di Valdobbiadene and Conegliano hills and that of the Oltrepo Pavese ».
Centinaio’s future will still be in Pavia, where the bride will move. Hundreds, in this year, has often been to Conegliano, but the public occasions in which he has participated can be counted on the fingers of one hand; the last time, together with Silvia, at the end of May, in the city, to collect signatures in defense of Italian food threatened by European menus packed with insects. Thanks to this frequentation, the undersecretary got to know the Unesco hills of Prosecco, whose candidacy he had sponsored in Baku.
“For my birthday this year, I am asking for donations for Save the Children Italy – it was a much appreciated initiative of the future bride – I chose this non-profit organization because its goal is very important to me and I hope you will consider the opportunity to offer a contribution to celebrate with me. Every small donation will help me achieve my goal. Save the Children works for: a world that respects and values every child, a world that listens to children and learns from them, a world in which all children have hope and opportunities “. Friends have no doubts. They certify that «Gian Marco, insieme to Silvia, she has found her serenity ».
In any case, nothing else is known about the wedding ceremony. Except that among the Treviso guests there will also be Senator Gianpaolo Vallardi, president of the Agriculture Commission of Palazzo Madama.