Attilio Fontana

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Attilio Fontana (2019)

Attilio Fontana (born March 28, 1952 in Varese ) is an Italian lawyer and politician of the Lega . He has served as President of the Lombardy region in a center-right coalition since 2018 . In this office he succeeded Roberto Maroni .

life and career

Fontana graduated from the University of Milan in 1975 with a law degree and from 1980 worked as a criminal defense attorney in a law firm in Varese.

He began his political activities with a mayor's office in the Italian municipality of Induno Olona from 1995 to 1999 , and from 2000 to 2005 he was also a member of the Lombardy Regional Council. In 2006 he was elected Mayor of Varese, confirmed in 2011 in this office, for the 2016 election he could no longer run because the right to vote only allows two terms and therefore left office in 2016.

In 2018 he ran for President of the Lombardy Region and was elected on March 4, 2018 with 49.75% of the vote.

Fontana drew the accusation of racism on himself in 2018 when he declared in connection with refugee and migration movements to Europe: "We have to decide whether our ethnic group, whether our white race, whether our society should continue or whether it should be wiped out."

Fontana is blamed for the severity of the Covid-19 outbreak in Lombardy, as he refused to lock down the heavily affected Lombard cities in early March 2020. While his regional government is under investigation in connection with the course of the pandemic, Fontana instead blamed the national government.

Web links

Commons : Attilio Fontana  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Presidente Attilio Fontana. Regione Lombardia, accessed May 31, 2020 (Italian).
  2. ^ White race at risk - Fontana on migrants (2). Ansa, accessed on May 29, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Udo Gümpel: Italy's corona disaster has those responsible. n-tv , May 23, 2020, accessed on May 29, 2020 .
  4. ^ Nicole Winfield: Many failures combined to unleash death on Italy's Lombardy. In: AP news. April 26, 2020, accessed on May 29, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Fontana, Attilio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian politician (Lega Nord)
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Varese