Giovanni Benussi

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Giovanni "Ivan" Benussi (born July 15, 1948 in Bozen ) is an Italian politician, former mayor of Bozen and architect.

biography

The son of the former South Tyrolean member of the state parliament for the Movimento Sociale Italiano Ruggero Benussi worked as an architect after studying at the IUAV in Venice and was involved in various Catholic associations and groups for years .

In 2005 he entered the municipal elections of Bolzano with his own Lista Benussi and was the common candidate of the Italian center-right parties ( Alleanza Nazionale , Forza Italia ) for the office of mayor. On May 8, 2005, his list was able to win two seats in the municipal council, in the mayor's run-off election on May 22, Benussi sat with a lead of seven votes against the incumbent, supported by Italian center-left parties and the South Tyrolean People's Party (SVP) Giovanni Salghetti Drioli . As a result, however, he was unable to find a majority in the local council for his program and the proposed city council, which is why he resigned from the mayor's office on June 22nd and Bolzano had to be administered by an extraordinary commissioner as a result.

When the municipal council elections had to be repeated on November 6, 2005, Lista Benussi was able to win four seats, but this time Benussi had to admit defeat to the candidate of the Italian center-left parties and SVP Luigi Spagnolli , who was already in the first ballot came to 50.36% of the vote.

At the beginning of 2011 there was a scandal when Benussi openly praised the work of fascism in South Tyrol and recommended that the South Tyroleans “lay roses” in front of the Mussolini- Fries at the Bolzano court square .

In 2015, Benussi ran again for the mayoral election of Bolzano, where he secured the support of the neo-fascist movement CasaPound . However, he received only 6.8% of the vote.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chi è. Alto Adige , May 24, 2005, accessed October 13, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Benussi, parte la lista civica. Alto Adige, November 8, 2004, accessed October 13, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Benussi stacca Salghetti: + 7.4%. Alto Adige, May 10, 2005, accessed October 13, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Bolzano, sindaco al centrodestra by 7 voti. Corriere della Sera , May 24, 2005, accessed October 13, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Benussi, sindaco per un mese. Alto Adige, June 23, 2005, accessed October 13, 2014 .
  6. ↑ Mayor and municipal committees from 1948 to 2010 (PDF; 452 kB) Office for Statistics and Times of the City of Bolzano. Retrieved October 13, 2014.
  7. ↑ Spagnolli è il nuovo sindaco, Svp decisiva. Alto Adige, November 8, 2005, accessed October 13, 2014 .
  8. ↑ "Will not send excavators tomorrow". orf.at, February 5, 2011, accessed October 13, 2014 .
  9. ↑ Sarah Franzosini: Dacci oggi il nostro candidato quotidiano . Article on salto.bz from March 12, 2015.
  10. ↑ "Torna il sindaco di maggio. Benussi riparte da Casapound ”. Alto Adige, April 10, 2015, archived from the original on April 17, 2015 ; Retrieved April 10, 2015 .
  11. ↑ Bozen: Mayor Spagnolli has to go to the runoff this time. Südtirol Online , May 11, 2015, archived from the original on November 18, 2015 ; accessed on November 17, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Benussi, Giovanni
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Benussi, Ivan (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian architect and politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Bolzano