Aldo Patriciello

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Aldo Patriciello (born September 27, 1957 in Venafro , Isernia Province ) is an Italian politician ( UDC , PdL , FI ). He has been a member of the European Parliament since 2006 .

Life

Patriciello has been a surveyor in Italy since 1976. He began his political career as a member of Democrazia Cristiana (DC) in local politics in his hometown Venafro in the Molise region . There he officiated as an alderman for public works, deputy mayor and local council. After the DC collapsed, Patriciello initially belonged to the Partito Popolare Italiano (PPI).

He was elected to the Molise Regional Council in 1995 and was an alderman in the regional government from 1997 to 1999, which was provided by the center-left alliance L'Ulivo . In February 1998 a group of PPI MPs in the regional council, including Patriciello and Angelo Michele Iorio, expressed suspicion to the regional government of Marcello Veneziale. For this they were excluded from the PPI. In November 1998, Iorio, who had converted to Forza Italia , was elected with the votes of the center-right camp as the new regional president, Patriciello became his deputy. For the regional election in 2000, Patriciello was elected to the regional council via the Forza Italia list and became its vice-president.

In 2001 Patriciello joined the small Christian Democratic party Democrazia Europea and became its regional secretary in Molise. When the regional election was repeated in November 2001, DE received 12.8% and Patriciello moved back into the regional parliament. In Michele Iorios' second regional government, Patriciello was again deputy president and councilor for industry and agriculture until 2006. The DE was merged into the Unione dei Democratici Cristiani e Democratici di Centro (UDC) at the end of 2002 , to whose regional secretariat and national board Patriciello subsequently belonged.

In May 2006 Patriciello moved to the European Parliament for the resigned UDC chairman Lorenzo Cesa 2006 . There he belongs to the Group of the European People's Party (EPP). In early 2008 he was sentenced to four months imprisonment for illegal funding, but was never arrested. In June 2008, he moved from the UDC to Forza Italia, which was absorbed the following year in the center-right collecting party Il Popolo della Libertà (PdL). Patriciello was a member of the Committee on Budgetary Control and the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy , from June 2008 to July 2009 he was its vice-chair.

After being re-elected from the PdL list in the 2009 European elections , he was also a delegate for relations with Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo. Since the split in the PdL, he has been a member of the Forza Italia party again . In the European elections in 2014 and 2019, he was confirmed for a further legislative period. He is now a member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and the Delegation for Relations with India.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Liana Milella: Trenta onorevoli nella black list del Parlamento . La Repubblica, February 22, 2008