Adriana Poli Bortone

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Adriana Poli Bortone
Minister of Agriculture
In office
10 May 1994 – 17 January 1995
Prime MinisterSilvio Berlusconi
Preceded byAlfredo Luigi Diana
Succeeded byWalter Luchetti
Mayor of Lecce
In office
25 May 1998 – 28 May 2007
Preceded byStefano Salvemini
Succeeded byPaolo Perrone
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
12 July 1983 – 14 April 1999
Member of the European Parliament
In office
20 July 1999 – 28 April 2008
Member of the Senate of the Republic
In office
29 April 2008 – 14 March 2013
Personal details
Born (1943-08-25) 25 August 1943 (age 80)
Lecce, Italy
Political partyMSI (until 1995)
AN (1995−2009)
IS (2009−2014)
FdI (2014−2015)
FI (2016−2019)
FT (2019−2022)
Italexit (since 2022)
Alma materUniversity of Lecce
ProfessionUniversity professor

Adriana Poli Bortone (born 25 August 1943) is an Italian politician who was a member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2008.[1] She represented Southern Italy. She was mayor of Lecce until 2007.[2]

Biography[edit]

Born in Lecce, she became Assistant lecturer in Latin literature at the University of Lecce in 1965. In 1985 she became an associate professor in the same subject. From 1967 to 1998, she was member of Lecce Municipal Council and from 1981 to 1990 National secretary for women of the Italian Social Movement. From 1990 to 2000, she also was member of the national executive of MSI and subsequently of National Alliance. Poli Bortone was elected for the first time to the Chamber of Deputies in 1983 and in 1994 she was appointed for a month Vice President of the Chamber. In 1994 she also served as Agriculture Minister in the Berlusconi I Cabinet. In 1998 she was elected mayor of Lecce, and she was re-confirmed in 2002.

In the 1999 European Parliament election, Poli Bortone was elected MEP with AN, while in the 2008 general election she was elected to the Senate with The People of Freedom. In 2009 she left the PdL to found her party, named I the South. In the 2013 general election she was candidate for the Senate in Apulia with Great South, but she wasn't re-elected. In 2014, Poli Bortone joined Brothers of Italy,[3] but she left the party in 2015, when Forza Italia nominated her for the regional election in Apulia, while FdI decided to support the candidacy of Francesco Schittulli. Finally, she gained the 14% of the votes and she wasn't even elected in the Regional Council. Subsequently, on 29 February 2016, she declared to join Forza Italia.[4]

In 2019, Poli Bortone left Forza Italia and joined the neo-fascist party Tricolour Flame.[5] In 2022 she switched to Italexit, a Eurosceptic party led by journalist Gianluigi Paragone.[6]

External links[edit]

Italian Chamber of Deputies
Preceded by
Title jointly held
 Deputy
1983–1999 		Succeeded by
Title jointly held
European Parliament
Preceded by
Title jointly held
 Member of Parliament
1999–2008 		Succeeded by
Title jointly held
Italian Senate
Preceded by
Title jointly held
 Senator for Apulia
2008 – 2013 		Succeeded by
Title jointly held
Political offices
Preceded by
Title jointly held
 Vice-President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies
1994 		Succeeded by
Title jointly held
Preceded by Italian Minister of Agriculture
1994–1995 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
Stefano Salvemini
 Mayor of Lecce
1998–2007 		Succeeded by

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Adriana POLI BORTONE". European Parliament website. Retrieved 18 February 2011.
  2. ^ "Biogpraphia". Adriana Poli Bortone website. Retrieved 18 February 2011.
  3. ^ Poli Bortone: “Con Fratelli d’Italia per una destra più forte”. Meloni: “Orgogliosi di averla con noi”[permanent dead link]
  4. ^ La svolta si Adriana: "Entro in Forza Italia"
  5. ^ "Ritorno alle origini: Adriana Poli Bortone in aula per Fiamma Tricolore". LeccePrima (in Italian). Retrieved 22 October 2022.
  6. ^ "L'ultima strambata di Poli Bortone: "Accordo con Italexit. Delusa da Fdi, usa la fiamma ma ha cancellato radici"". Il Fatto Quotidiano (in Italian). 6 September 2022. Retrieved 22 October 2022.
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