Dario Franceschini
Dario Franceschini (born October 19, 1958 in Ferrara ) is an Italian politician and author . From February 21st to November 7th, 2009 he held the office of chairman ( Segretario ) of the Partito Democratico . From February 22, 2014 to June 1, 2018, he was Minister for Cultural Goods and Tourism . Since September 5, 2019, he has held this office again in the Conte II cabinet .
Professional background
Franceschini graduated from the University of Ferrara with a law degree . From 1985 he worked as a lawyer specializing in civil law as well as an auditor and was also admitted to the Supreme Court ( Corte Suprema di Cassazione ). After the privatization of the oil company Eni , he was a member of the supervisory board for three years.
Franceschini also drew attention to himself as a writer when he published one novel each in 2006 and 2007 by Bompiani-Verlag: Nelle vene quell'acqua d'argento (“This silver water in the veins”) and La follia improvvisa di Ignazio Rando (“The sudden madness of Ignazio Rando ”).
Political career
Franceschini was already politically involved in school, was a co-founder of a Christian Democratic school organization and was elected to the school council. He joined the Democrazia Cristiana (DC) in 1975 and initially held various functions in their youth organization. In 1980 he was elected to the city council of his hometown Ferrara and took over the office of parliamentary group leader of his party in 1983. Since 1984 he has participated in various DC periodicals and series of publications , which he has also been in charge of for a time ( Nuova Politica , Settantasei , Il Confronto and La Discussione ). In 1985 he devoted a book on local history to the historical roots of Christian Democracy in Ferrara ( Il Partito Popolare a Ferrara. Cattolici, socialisti e fascisti nella terra di Grosoli e Don Minzoni ).
Franceschini advocated a center-left alliance early on, so that when the DC switched to the centrist Partito Popolare Italiano (PPI), he left the party in 1994 and joined the Cristiano Sociali , for whom he ran as a candidate for mayor in Ferrara and became 20 % of the vote received. Then he was the city councilor for culture and tourism. Only when the PPI joined the center-left electoral alliance L'Ulivo in the following year did he return to their ranks and become deputy party chairman (1997–1999). In the governments of Massimo D'Alemas and Giuliano Amatos (1998–2001), he took over the post of State Secretary to the Prime Minister with responsibility for institutional reforms.
In the 2001 parliamentary elections , he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for the Ferrara constituency, where he was a member of the Electoral Committee and the Standing Commission on Constitutional Affairs. In July 2001 he was one of the founders of the new center party Democrazia è Libertà - La Margherita , which united Christian Democrats and social liberals and in whose executive committee he was the coordinator until 2006. After his re-election as parliamentarian, he was elected chairman of the L'Ulivo parliamentary group in the Chamber of Deputies in 2006. He also represented Italy in the Parliamentary Assemblies of the Council of Europe (until 2012) and the Western European Union (WEU; until their dissolution in 2011). When his party went up in the Partito Democratico (PD), Franceschini was elected deputy chairman on October 27, 2007 by its founding party congress and then passed the chairmanship of the parliamentary group to Antonello Soro .
After the resignation of Walter Veltroni , Franceschini was elected chairman of the party on February 21, 2009 at the national party congress of the PD. In October 2009, the Partito Democratico held an open primary election for party chairman, in which over 3 million supporters of the party participated. Franceschini was challenged by Pier Luigi Bersani from the left wing of the party. Bersani prevailed with 53% of the vote, Franceschini only got 34%. This was seen as a shift to the left of the party and led to the split-off of a group that tended towards the center around the former Margherita chairman Francesco Rutelli . Franceschini remained in the party, however, and has since been considered the leader of a Christian-social wing called AreaDem , to which Paolo Gentiloni , David Sassoli and Federica Mogherini are also assigned. In November 2009 Franceschini was again chairman of the PD parliamentary group in the Chamber of Deputies.
After his re-election as MP, Franceschini was from April 2013 in the Letta cabinet (“Grand Coalition”) as a minister without portfolio responsible for relations with parliament. In the following Renzi government , he became Minister of Culture in February 2014; under Paolo Gentiloni he was confirmed in this office in December 2016, which he held until the change of government in March 2018. In the Conte II cabinet - a coalition of PD and Movimento 5 Stelle - he is again Minister for Cultural Goods and Tourism.
family
Dario Franceschini is a son of Giorgio Franceschini (1921–2012), who fought as a partisan of the Resistancea in the final phase of the Second World War and from 1953 to 1958 was a member of parliament for the Democrazia Cristiana .
Franceschini is married for the second time and has three daughters.
Works
- Il Partito Popolare a Ferrara. Cattolici, socialisti e fascisti nella terra di Grosoli e Don Minzoni . (1985)
- Nelle vene quell'acqua d'argento . (2006)
- La follia improvvisa di Ignazio Rando . (2007)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 2nd Italian government sworn in under Conte in Rome. In: Südtirol Online . September 5, 2019, accessed September 5, 2019 .
- ^ Dario Franceschini, nuovo ministro della Cultura del governo Renzi. In: Bologna Today , February 24, 2014.
- ↑ a b Dario Franceschini. In: Il Sole 24 Ore , December 13, 2016.
- ^ Stefano Lolli: Chi è davvero Dario Franceschini. In: Il Giornale dell'Arte.com , September 4, 2019.
- ^ Gentiloni al seminario della corrente di Franceschini e Fassino. In: Il Messaggero , September 12, 2019.
- ^ Ecco la squadra del governo Renzi / Federica Mogherini - Esteri. In: Il Sole 24 Ore , February 21, 2014.
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
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Massimo Bray Alberto Bonisoli |
Italian Minister for Cultural Goods February 2014 to June 2018 September 2019 - in office |
Alberto Bonisoli |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Franceschini, Dario |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian politician, member of the Camera dei Deputati and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 19, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ferrara |