Augusto Minzolini is a Senator representing the Popolo della Libertà political party in the Italian Parliament. He was elected in 2013 and is a member of the Radio and Television Services Parliamentary Commission. Prior to entering Parliament, he was a journalist for the Italian publications Panorama and La Stampa. From 2009 to 2011 he was the director of RAI 1 News.
A discussion on the unlikely rise of current Italian PM Matteo Renzi, taking as its starting point the book L'intoccabile. Matteo Renzi - la vera storia (2014) by Davide Vecchi.