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Roberto Formigoni
8th President of Lombardy
In office
24 April 1995 – 18 March 2013
Preceded byPaolo Arrigoni
Succeeded byRoberto Maroni
Personal details
Born (1947-03-30) 30 March 1947 (age 77)
Lecco, Italy
Political partyNcl (2017-present)
Other political
affiliations		DC (1973–1994)
PPI (1994–1995)
CDU (1995–1998)
CDL (1998–2001)
FI (2001–2009)
PDL (2009–2013)
NCD (2013–2017)
AP (2017)
ResidenceMilan
Alma materUniversità Cattolica, Milan
ProfessionPolitician, Communion And Liberation Movement former unofficial political spokesman[1][2]

Roberto Formigoni (Lecco, Italy 30 March 1947) is an Italian politician, has been an Italian senator and was the President of Lombardy since 1995 till 2013. He is the former unofficial political spokeperson of the Communion and Liberation movement.

Career

Graduated in Philosophy at the Università Cattolica in Milan, he studied political economy at the Sorbonne, in Paris, France.[citation needed]

Roberto Formigoni began his political career early in Christian Democracy, through youth movements such as Gioventù Studentesca and Communion and Liberation (of which he became the unofficial political spokesman). In 1976, he founded the Popular Movement and was elected a deputy in both the European Parliament (with over 450,000 votes) and Parliament of Italy. He was also the Vice-President of the European Parliament for five years and served as under-secretary for the Environment in the Italian government.

In 1990, he garnered attention when he was involved in a mission to Iraq which successfully concluded with the freeing of some Italian technicians who were hostages of the local government. He later took part in the Oil-for-food programme for Iraq, buying 1,000,000 oil barrels (160,000 cubic metres). The move sparked controversy and linked him to alleged bribe scandals. In 1995, he and Rocco Buttiglione founded the United Christian Democrats party. In 1998, he moved to Forza Italia, when Buttiglione briefly decided to support the government of Massimo D'Alema.

He was elected President of Lombardy in 1995. Leftist groups opposed his center-right platform. President Formigoni was re-elected in 2000 carrying over 62% of the approximately 3.5 million votes, and in 2005.

He was elected to a fourth term in March 2010. His candidature had been contested by academics and left-wing politicians, as in disregard of Law n. 165/2004, that put a limit of two consecutive mandates to directly-elected Regional Presidents. Formigoni was indirectly elected in 1995, but then directly elected in 2000 and 2005. He defended himself, stating that the law was not in vigour when he was first directly elected in 2000, so he should be allowed a 4th mandate. According to some scholars, his mandate may be overturned by judges later on.[3][4]

Controversies

Roberto Formigoni candidated the Italian showgirl Nicole Minetti and dental hygienist of the former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who asked for a political seat for her and this was contested by Italian newspapers.[5]

On 16 October 2012, Formigoni announced the dissolution of the regional legislature after one of his commissioners, Domenico Zambetti of the People of Freedom was arrested on accusations he bought votes from the 'Ndrangheta in 2010 and extorted favours and public building contracts, including construction tenders for the World Expo 2015 in Milan.[6][7]

Roberto Formigoni has been convicted on December 2016 for 6 years due bribery when he was President of the Italian Region of Lombardy.[8][9] [10][11][12]

See also

References

  1. ^ http://espresso.repubblica.it/plus/articoli/2016/08/26/news/senza-formigoni-e-lupi-la-rete-di-cl-e-piu-forte-di-prima-1.281273
  2. ^ http://www.indygesto.it/index.php/dossier/item/117-formigoni-e-cl
  3. ^ Vittorio Angiolini, professore ordinario di Diritto costituzionale dell'Università di Milano; Margherita Raveraira, Università di Perugia Il limite del doppio mandato alla immediata rielezione del Presidente della giunta regionale: una questione complessa Archived 22 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Federalismi.it
  4. ^ Michele Ainis, La terza via di Errani e Formigoni, La Stampa, 25 gennaio 2010
  5. ^ Running for Parliament, the Italian showgirl who made Silvio Berlusconi smile again, Mail Online, 19 febbraio 2010
  6. ^ Italy corruption probes claim Lombardy legislature, Miami Herald, 16 October 2012
  7. ^ Mafia probe claims political victim, Financial Times, 14 October 2012
  8. ^ http://www.ansa.it/english/news/politics/2016/12/22/formigoni-sentenced-to-six-years-2_f100ece1-57c8-40e3-8c0d-48940199c51a.html
  9. ^ http://www.adnkronos.com/aki-en/politics/2016/12/22/lombardy-governor-jailed-for-graft_aYKJyYwM0COusFWfnSmqsM.html
  10. ^ https://www.bitfeed.co/page/roberto-formigoni-sentenced-to-6-years-in-prison-for-corruption
  11. ^ https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2017/06/20/roberto-formigoni-condannato-giudici-nessuna-attenuante-e-spregiudicato-corrotto-con-almeno-6-milioni/3672672/
  12. ^ https://www.globalist.it/politics/2018/01/30/il-ritorno-di-formigoni-condannato-imputato-e-candidato-2018608.html
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