Angelino Alfano

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Angelino Alfano (2018)

Angelino Alfano (born October 31, 1970 in Agrigento ) is an Italian politician ( FI , PdL , NCD , AP ). From 2008 to 2011 he was Minister of Justice under Silvio Berlusconi , from 2013 to 2014 Deputy Prime Minister under Enrico Letta and Minister of the Interior in the Renzi cabinet until 2016 and Foreign Minister in the Gentiloni cabinet from December 2016 to June 2018 .

In November 2013 Alfano left Forza Italia together with other members of the government and political companions of Berlusconi and founded the new party Nuovo Centrodestra ("New Right Center"), which he took over as chairman. In 2018 he gave up the party chairmanship and did not run for the parliamentary elections.

Political career

After studying law at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan , Alfano worked as a lawyer and specialized in corporate law . Alfano acted as Silvio Berlusconi's legal advisor from 1994 . It is attributed to his work that Berlusconi was able to postpone court proceedings against him until they were time barred under Italian law.

Alfano's political engagement began in the Democrazia Cristiana (DC), in whose youth organization Movimento Giovanile he held important functions in the Association of the Province of Agrigento . After the DC broke up, he joined the newly founded Forza Italia party led by Berlusconi in 1994 . From 1996 to 2001 Alfano sat in the Sicilian regional parliament. He was the coordinator of Forza Italia for the Sicily region.

In the 2001 parliamentary elections he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for constituency XXIV (Sicily 1) , where he was, among other things, Deputy Chairman of the Legislative Committee. Re-elected in 2006 , he was a member of the Budget Committee until 2008. In 2008 he was re-elected to parliament, this time as a candidate for the Popolo della Libertà , the successor to Forza Italia.

minister

Alfano with President Giorgio Napolitano (2009)

On May 8, 2008, he was appointed Minister of Justice in Berlusconi's fourth cabinet . At 37 he was one of the youngest ministers there. As Minister of Justice, he also tabled the Lodo Alfano Law , which would suspend trials against the holders of the four highest state offices for the duration of their mandate. The law was declared invalid by the Italian Constitutional Court in October 2009 . On July 27, 2011, Alfano resigned to focus on his party office. The new Minister of Justice was Francesco Nitto Palma (until then State Secretary in the Ministry of the Interior).

On April 28, 2013, the new Prime Minister named Enrico Letta Alfano as Minister of the Interior and Deputy Prime Minister. At the end of September 2013, at Berlusconi's pressure, Alfano initially announced that he would resign together with the four other ministers of his party and thus end the coalition. Berlusconi wanted to prevent the impending expulsion from the Senate after his conviction. But Alfano and the other members of the government from Berlusconi's party considered this irresponsible in view of the political and economic situation in the country and remained in office.

After the government reshuffle in February 2014, Alfano remained interior minister in the Renzi cabinet , but lost the office of deputy prime minister. In the government of Paolo Gentiloni , Alfano moved to the head of the Foreign Ministry on December 12, 2016. He held this position until June 1, 2018.

Political party

On June 1, 2011, Alfano was elected party secretary of the Popolo della Libertà . On July 8, 2011, Berlusconi announced in an interview that he would no longer run for the office of prime minister in the 2013 parliamentary election. Justice Minister Alfano will run as his successor. On November 9, 2011, Berlusconi announced his resignation; three days later he officially submitted it to President Giorgio Napolitano . Alfano no longer belonged to the subsequent government of Mario Monti .

In autumn 2013 Alfano played an important role in a government crisis and in internal PdL disagreements between Berlusconi, the five PdL ministers and PdL members. On November 15, 2013, because of the disagreements with Berlusconi, he founded the Nuovo Centrodestra ("New Right Center") party, which he took over as chairman and to which all PdL ministers from the Enrico Letta cabinet transferred, so that Berlusconi found himself in the opposition . In February 2014, Nuovo Centro Destra also took part in the cabinet of the following Prime Minister Matteo Renzi (PD).

In March 2017 the NCD changed its name to Alternativa Popolare . In September 2018, he resigned as party chairman.

Relationship with the mafia

In 2002 the newspaper " La Repubblica " reported that Alfano had attended the wedding of the daughter of the mafia boss from Palma di Montechiaro , Croce Napoli, in 1996 and had been kissed by the mafia boss. Alfano then denied knowing Croce Napoli; he also couldn't remember being at his daughter's wedding party. The next day he could remember the wedding. He was invited as a friend of the groom, but did not know that it was a mafia wedding: "I don't have to justify myself, I have been a staunch and avowed opponent of the mafia since high school." In October 2009, the " pentito “Ignazio Gagliardo, Alfano's father bought votes for his son through the Mafia.

literature

Web links

Commons : Angelino Alfano  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Udo Gümpel: Why Berlusconi does not have his party under control . Portal n-tv.de , October 2, 2013; Retrieved October 3, 2013
  2. ^ Nitto Francesco Palma è il nuovo guardasigilli Succede al dimissionario Angelino Alfano . Italian Ministry of Justice website, accessed July 28, 2011.
  3. ↑ Berlusconi's ministers resign . sueddeutsche.de, September 28, 2013
  4. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Secretary for Berlusconi . ) Süddeutsche Zeitung , June 3, 2011, accessed on June 11, 2011.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.sueddeutsche.de
  5. ^ E il Cavaliere annuncia il ritiro . La Repubblica
  6. ↑ faz.net
  7. ↑ Berlusconi brings Crown Prince into position . Spiegel Online , November 9, 2011; Retrieved November 9, 2011
  8. ↑ Wolfgang Jaschensky, Michael King: Prime Minister before the resignation. How Berlusconi can cure Italy . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , November 9, 2011.
  9. ↑ Consultazioni al Quirinale a seguito delle dimissioni del Governo Berlusconi . Official notice of the Quirinal Palace, November 12, 2011.
  10. ↑ The Fantastic Five . In: FAZ , October 1, 2013
  11. ↑ Francesco Viviano: "Il bacio pericoloso di Alfano" , La Repubblica of February 5, 2002, accessed on April 15, 2011.
  12. ↑ Francesco Viviano: Alfano ricorda: 'Ero amico dello sposo' , La Repubblica of February 6, 2002, accessed on April 15, 2011.
  13. ↑ Il pentito: 'Il padre di Alfano ci chiedeva voti per il figlio' . Corriere della Sera , October 8, 2009, accessed April 15, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Alfano, Angelino
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian politician (NCD), member of the camera
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Agrigento