Daniela Santanchè

Daniela Santanchè (2018)

Daniela Garnero Santanchè [daˈnjeːla santaŋˈkɛ] (born April 7, 1961 in Cuneo as Daniela Garnero ) is an Italian politician of the right and national conservative spectrum and entrepreneur in the advertising industry.

She was a member of the Italian House of Representatives from 2001 to 2008 and again from 2013 to 2018. For the parliamentary election in 2008 she was the top candidate of the right-wing extremist party alliance La Destra - Fiamma Tricolore . From 2010 to 2011 she was State Secretary in the Berlusconi IV cabinet . She has been a senator for the Fratelli d'Italia party since 2018 .

Life

The daughter of a freight forwarder from Cuneo graduated from the University of Turin with a degree in political science . In 1983 Santanchè founded a marketing company. Her company Dani Comunicazione Srl, founded in 1990 and based in Milan, is active in the field of PR and event management and has a stake in Flavio Briatore's Billionaire discotheque in Porto Cervo on Sardinia. From 1992–93, Santanchè took a management course at the Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi . Since 2007 she has been the CEO and main shareholder of the listed advertising company Visibilia Srl , also based in Milan , which manages advertisements in the newspapers Il Giornale and Libero .

Daniela Garnero married the cosmetic surgeon Paolo Santanchè in 1982. They separated in 1995, but she kept his family name. She then lived with the pharmaceutical entrepreneur Canio Giovanni Mazzaro. Together they have a son, Lorenzo Mazzaro, who was born in 1996. From 2007 to 2016 she was in a relationship with Alessandro Sallusti , the editor of il Giornale . Since 2016 she has been in a relationship with Dimitri Kunz, who can be called “Prince of Habsburg-Lothringen ”, but is not recognized by Sigismund von Habsburg-Lothringen, head of the Tuscan branch of the family.

Political career

Alleanza Nazionale

In 1995 Santanchè joined the Alleanza Nazionale , which at that time changed from a neo-fascist to a democratic right-wing conservative party. She worked as an employee of the deputy Ignazio La Russa and as an advisor to the city administration of Milan under the mayor Gabriele Albertini . In 1999 she was elected to the Council of the Province of Milan as representative of the AN .

She ran for the AN in the 2001 parliamentary election . Actually, she missed entry into the House of Representatives , but her party colleague Viviana Beccalossi resigned her mandate two months after the election and Santanchè took her place. From 2003 to 2004 she was an alderman of the Ragalna municipality in Sicily. She became known beyond the borders of Italy in 2005 with her proposal to introduce a porn tax. That same year she was rapporteur for the center-right government's parliamentary groups on the budget law.

In the 2006 election she defended her parliamentary seat. Her book Donna Negata , published that year , which critically examines the role of women in Islam , sparked considerable protests in Iran . After receiving death threats, she received police protection.

La Destra

Election event of La Destra with Santanchè (center) in Genoa, 2008

On November 10, 2007, she resigned from the Alleanza Nazionale and joined the right wing party La Destra led by Francesco Storace , who had also left the AN four months earlier. She immediately became the spokesperson for this party. For the parliamentary elections in 2008 , La Destra formed an alliance with the even more extreme, neo-fascist party Fiamma Tricolore . Santanchè ran as the top candidate of this alliance, which with 2.4% of the vote failed to make it into parliament.

Santanchè then tried to position La Destra as a “right wing loyal to Berlusconit”, while Storace followed a more critical line towards the center-right government. Then she left La Destra with some of the officials in September 2008 and founded the Movimento per l'Italia (MpI). She declared that she did not want to "be banned from a group of extra-parliamentary extremism and vague nostalgism" or "lose time in arguments about fascism".

PdL and Forza Italia

Santanchè in 2013

Santanchè and her MpI joined the center-right collecting party Popolo della Libertà (PdL) in 2010 . On March 4, 2010, she was appointed State Secretary by Silvio Berlusconi with responsibility for implementing the government program. In 2011, the Italian magazine Oggi published the news that, contrary to what is reported on the government's website, Santanchè did not have a master’s degree from the renowned Bocconi School of Management . She stated that she had hired her lawyers to sue the magazine; the university stated that they had attended a course with her, but not a master’s degree. Opposition politicians demanded that she, like Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, resign after his plagiarism affair . With Berlusconi's resignation as Prime Minister on November 16, 2011, Santanchè also resigned from her government office.

In the 2013 elections she was re-elected to the Chamber of Deputies, this time as a representative of the PdL. The party split in November 2013 and Santanchè participated in Berlusconi's re-established Forza Italia . In the 2013–18 legislative period, Santanchè was one of the MEPs who were absent most often: she only took part in 27.6% of the votes.

Fratelli d'Italia

In December 2017, she left the Forza Italia faction and joined the national conservative party Fratelli d'Italia . For this she was elected to the Italian Senate in the 2018 election.

Works

• Daniela Santanchè: La donna negata: dall'infibulazione alla liberazione. Marsilio-Verlag, Venice 2006, ISBN 88-317-8959-7 .
• Daniela Santanchè: Le donne violate: la donna negata e oltre. Marsilio-Verlag, Venice 2008, ISBN 978-88-317-9446-6 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Domenico Giampetruzzi: Daniela Santanchè e Alessandro Sallusti si sono lasciati dopo 9 anni d'amore. In: PourFemme , May 17, 2016.
2. ↑ Davide Turrini: Daniela Santanché, il suo fidanzato Dimitri Kunz, principe D'Asburgo Lorena non è principe. Il vero arciduca: “Non usi il nostro nome” In: IlFattoQuotidiano.it , September 27, 2016.
3. ↑ Santanchè: "Silvio, torniamo assieme". In: IlTempo.it , June 1, 2008. Original quote: Noi siamo nati per essere la destra leale a Berlusconi.
4. ↑ Laura Cesaretti: Santanchè, strappo con La Destra: "Storace guarda solo al passato". In: ilGiornale.it , September 28, 2008. Original quote: Non si può restare confinati in un'area di estremismo extraparlamentare e di vago nostalgismo, né perdere tempo in polemiche sul fascismo che vanno lasciate solo alla storia e ai suoi giudizi.
5. ↑ Santanché, esordio amaro da sottosegretario. La Repubblica , March 9, 2010, accessed November 15, 2010 (Italian). 
6. ^ Tilmann Kleinjung, Guttenberg in Italian , Tagesschau.de of March 24, 2011 ( Memento of March 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
7. ↑ On. Daniela Garnero Santanchè . In: Open Parlamento. XVII legislature (2013-2018). Openpolis, accessed June 17, 2019.

Web links

• Entry in the Camera dei Deputati (17th legislative period)
• Entry at the Portale storico of the Camera dei Deputati (XIV. And XV. Legislative periods)