Angelino Alfano
Angelino Alfano | |
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Minister of Justice | |
In office 8 May 2008 – 27 July 2011 | |
Prime Minister | Silvio Berlusconi |
Preceded by | Luigi Scotti |
Succeeded by | Nitto Francesco Palma |
Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
In office 30 May 2001 – 22 March 2018 | |
Constituency | Sicily 1 (2001–2013) Piedmont 1 (2013–2018) |
Personal details | |
Born | Agrigento, Italy | 31 October 1970
Political party | DC (before 1994) FI (1994–2009) PDL (2009–2013) NCD (2013–2017) AP (since 2017) |
Spouse | Tiziana Miceli |
Children | 2 |
Alma mater | Catholic University of the Sacred Heart University of Palermo |
Angelino Alfano (Italian pronunciation:
Alfano was
Alfano is the first Italian politician to have held the offices of Minister of Justice, Minister of the Interior, and Minister of Foreign Affairs, which are considered among the most important ministries in the
Early life and education
Alfano was born in Agrigento, Sicily, on 31 October 1970;[3] his father, Angelo Alfano, was a lawyer and local politician for the Christian Democracy, who also held the position of deputy mayor of Agrigento.
After receiving a law degree from Milan's Università Cattolica and a doctorate in Corporate law from the University of Palermo, Alfano started his political experience, as his father, with the Christian Democracy party.
Political career
After some years in the Christian Democracy party, in 1994, when DC changed his name in the centre-left oriented Italian People's Party, Alfano joined Forza Italia, the new centre-right party founded by the media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi, and was elected to the Agrigento Province Council. In 1996, Alfano was the youngest member elected to the Sicilian Regional Assembly.
In 2001, he became a member of the
Minister of Justice
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After the
The so-called
In 2011 the
Minister of the Interior
On 24 April 2013, the Vice-Secretary of the
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On 19 July 2013, the
In November 2013, Alfano broke with his mentor Berlusconi: He and other
On 13 February 2014, following his loss in a leadership election against Matteo Renzi, the new Secretary of the Democratic Party, Letta announced he would resign as Prime Minister the following day. On 22 February Renzi was sworn in as Prime Minister and Alfano was confirmed as Interior Minister.
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A major problem Alfano has faced, as Interior Minister, is
On 19 April 2015, a
In November 2015 six
Minister of Foreign Affairs
On 7 December 2016, Prime Minister
Angelino Alfano was appointed, by the new Prime Minister and by President Mattarella, new
On 18 March 2017, Alfano,
Controversy
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In 2002, La Repubblica reported the presence of Alfano at the 1996 wedding of the daughter of Croce Napoli (died 2001), believed by investigators[citation needed] to be the Mafia boss of Palma di Montechiaro. As shown on an amateur video of the party, Alfano, then a deputy of the Sicilian Regional Assembly, was greeted with affection by Croce Napoli. Alfano at first told La Repubblica he had "no memory or recollection of this wedding" and that "I never participated in a wedding of Mafia or of their children, I do not know his wife, Gabriella, and I've never heard of Mr. Croce Napoli who was said to be boss of Palma di Montechiaro."[21] Later he said that he remembered that he was actually at the wedding but had been invited by the groom and did not know the bride and her family.[22]
In 2013, he was threatened with a
Personal life
He is married to Tiziana Miceli,[25] a civil lawyer. They have two sons.[26]
See also
References
- ^ Kevin Lees (18 November 2013). "What the Alfano-Berlusconi split means for Italian politics". Suffragio. Retrieved 20 November 2013.
- ^ Addio Ncd, nasce Alternativa popolare, Alfano: «Chiamati a ripartire»
- ^ Governo Italiano – Biografia del ministro Angelino Alfano Archived 12 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine Biography (in Italian)
- ^ Sentenza n. 292/2009, Consulta Online, 7 October 2009
- ^ "Premier illiberale, io non-lascio Leali ma no alle scelte ingiuste". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). Retrieved 22 October 2011.
- ^ "Italy's Berlusconi sees Angelino Alfano as his successor". BBC News. 8 July 2011. Retrieved 20 July 2011.
- ^ Frye, Andrew (24 April 2013). "Letta Named Italian Prime Minister as Impasse Ends". Bloomberg. Retrieved 26 April 2013.
- ^ "Italy PM-designate Enrico Letta agrees new government". BBC. 27 April 2013. Retrieved 27 April 2013.
- ^ Berlusconi: Noi compatti con Alfano. Nel Pd i renziani insistono sulla sfiducia[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Alfano lancia il Nuovo centrodestra: "No a Fi per me scelta dolorosa. No a decadenza Berlusconi"", Il Messaggero (in Italian), 16 November 2013, retrieved 16 November 2013
- ^ Francesco Bei (16 November 2013), "Il "Nuovo centrodestra", gruppi in crescita e logo tricolore", la Repubblica (in Italian), retrieved 18 November 2013
- ^ Bonomolo, Alessandra; Kirchgaessner, Stephanie (21 April 2015). "Migrant boat captain arrested as survivors of sinking reach Italy". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 April 2015.
- ^ "Italy uncovers mafia threat to interior minister". Reuters. 20 November 2015. Archived from the original on 12 April 2022.
- ^ Italy nabs mobsters 'plotting hit on interior minister'
- ^ "L'ascesa di Paolo Gentiloni, dalla Margherita alla Farnesina" [Paolo Gentiloni's rise: from the Daisy to the Farnesina]. La Repubblica (in Italian). Rome: Gruppo Editoriale L’Espresso. 31 October 2014. Retrieved 20 February 2015.
- ^ Nasce il governo Gentiloni, ministri confermati tranne Giannini. Alfano agli Esteri. Minniti all'Interno. Boschi sottosegretario
- ^ Nasce il governo Gentiloni: Alfano agli Esteri, Minniti agli Interni
- ^ Ncd si scioglie, Alfano battezza "Alternativa Popolare"
- ^ Alfano, FI sta con lepenisti, centrodestra non innovabile
- ^ Angelino Alfano a Porta a Porta: "Non mi ricandido. Ci sono momenti in cui servono dei gesti"
- ^ Francesco Viviano (5 February 2002). "Il bacio pericoloso di Alfano". La Repubblica. p. 1. Retrieved 12 December 2010.
- ^ Francesco Viviano (6 February 2002). "Alfano ricorda: 'Ero amico dello sposo". La Repubblica. p. 6. Retrieved 12 December 2010.
- ^ "Shirtsleeve time". The Economist. London and Rome. 20 July 2013. Retrieved 19 July 2013.
- ^ "Italian politics: Nursultan Nazarbayev's chum in Italy", The Economist, 16 July 2013.
- ^ "Tiziana Miceli, moglie di Alfano e miss consulenze". Archived from the original on 18 April 2015.
- ^ "ALFANO Angelino - biografia". Archived from the original on 24 March 2013.
External links
Media related to Angelino Alfano at Wikimedia Commons