Claudio Scajola

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Claudio Scajola (2008)

Claudio Scajola (born January 15, 1948 in Imperia ) is an Italian politician ( DC , FI , PdL ). In Silvio Berlusconi 's second and third cabinets, he was Italian Interior Minister (2001–2002), Special Minister for the Implementation of the Government Program (2003–2005) and Minister for Economic Productivity (2005–2006). From May 2008 to May 2010, as Minister for Economic Development, he was a member of Berlusconi's fourth cabinet . He was 1982–83 and 1990–95 and has been mayor of his hometown Imperia again since June 2018.

Political career

Scajola studied law at the University of Genoa , but dropped out early and worked in public administration , in leading positions at the National Insurance Institute for Municipal Employees (INADEL), later in the hospital administration of Costarainera and the local health authority (USL) of Imperia.

Local politics

Since his early youth he has been involved in the youth organization of Democrazia Cristiana up to its national management level. He was elected to the city ​​council of Imperia in 1980 and mayor of the city in 1982 , but had to give up his post a year later because of serious discrepancies in the award of construction contracts and ongoing investigations against him. After his acquittal , he returned to the office of mayor of his hometown in 1990, but was not re-elected in 1995.

MP and Minister under Berlusconi

Scajola in 2001

In 1995 he joined Berlusconi's Forza Italia party and became its coordinator in the province of Imperia . In 1996 he was in the home constituency for the first time for his party in the Chamber of Deputies elected. Berlusconi commissioned him to draw up an independent party statute and the organizational structure of the national management structure of Forza Italia . At the first party congress in 1998 he was promoted to national coordinator of the party.

During his short term as Italian interior minister (June 2001 to July 2002), the G8 summit in Genoa (July 2001) was held and the associated responsibility for the tough police operation and the tragic riots fell . The murder of Marco Biagi , an expert in the Berlusconi government, as a result of the repeated warnings for personal protection for Biagi, which was not guaranteed , led to Scajola's resignation on July 3, 2002 . Scajola's condescending remarks also played a role in this.

Subsequently, Scajola worked primarily as the campaign leader of his party in the local elections in 2002 and was reappointed to the cabinet in August 2003 as minister for the implementation of the government program. When the government was reshuffled in April 2005, he was entrusted with the Ministry of Economic Production ( Attività Produttive ), which he headed until the change of power in May 2006.

As a re-elected member of Forza Italia , he took over the chairmanship of the parliamentary committee for the control of the secret services ( Copaco ) on July 11, 2006 . After Berlusconi's election victory in the parliamentary elections on April 13 and 14, 2008, he was appointed Minister for Economic Development on May 8.

Corruption scandal and mayor again

After a corruption scandal , he resigned as minister on May 4, 2010. He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies until March 2013. After the split in the PdL, he returned to the Forza Italia party . In May 2014, Scajola was arrested on charges of helping shipowner and politician Amedeo Matacena , who was sentenced to five years in prison in 2013, to escape to Dubai . In 2015 he left Forza Italia and joined the Partito Radicale Transnazionale .

For the mayoral election in Imperia in 2018, he ran as a non-party, supported by three citizen lists. He won the runoff election with 52% against the candidate from the center-right camp.

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  1. ↑ Scorta Negata a Biagi, lo sfogo di Scajola. Corriere della Sera , June 30, 2002, accessed May 22, 2019 (Italian).
  2. ^ Inchiesta G8, Scajola si dimette - La Repubblica , May 4, 2010
  3. ↑ Michael Braun : Im Knast , in: TAZ , May 9, 2014, p. 14
personal data
SURNAME Scajola, Claudio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Imperia