Giuliano Pisapia

Giuliano Pisapia (2012)

Giuliano Pisapia (born May 20, 1949 in Milan ) is an Italian lawyer and non-party politician . He was Mayor of Milan from 2011 to 2016 . He has been a member of the European Parliament since 2019 .

Life

Pisapia is the son of the lawyer and left-wing politician Gian Domenico Pisapia , who is known as the "father" of the reformed Italian Code of Criminal Procedure from 1989. He studied law and political science and worked as a criminal defense attorney . He also worked before the Supreme Court of Cassation . In this capacity he defended the PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan and represented the family of the Genoa protester Carlo Giuliani, who was shot in 2001, as a joint plaintiff.

Pisapia published legal articles and contributions to legal reference works and digests, but also published in the country's major daily newspapers.

Pisapia began his political engagement in the 1970s with the left-wing party Democrazia Proletaria (DP). In 1996 he was elected to the Italian House of Representatives as an independent on the list of the Rifondazione Comunista (RC), in which the DP had meanwhile been included . During the government crisis in 1998, he trusted Prime Minister Romano Prodi , deviating from the RC line , after which he was non-attached. During this legislature he was chairman of the judiciary committee. In 2001 he was re-elected for another five years. In July 2006 he was appointed chairman of a study commission of the Ministry of Justice on the reform of criminal law, which worked until the end of March 2008.

As early as June 2010, he announced his candidacy for the mayoral election of Milan on May 15 and 16, 2011. Supported by the left-wing parties RC + Comunisti Italiani and Sinistra Ecologia Libertà (SEL), he took part in the primaries on November 14, 2010, which the Democratic Party (PD) to find a common center-left candidate. With around 45%, he prevailed, and not the PD favorite Stefano Boeri , and was therefore a joint candidate of PD, SEL, RC + CI, Italia dei Valori , radicals , the Greens and various citizens' initiatives. In the first ballot, Pisapia surprisingly performed significantly better than incumbent Letizia Moratti from the conservative People of Freedom Party (PdL) and narrowly missed the absolute majority with 48.04%. Despite a subsequent xenophobic right-wing populist election campaign by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and his PdL, he sat in the runoff election on 29-30. May with 55.1% against Moratti. Pisapia was the center-left's first successful mayoral candidate after 18 years with mayors from the center-right parties ( Forza Italia and Lega Nord ). After the administrative reform of 2015, Pisapia also automatically became mayor of the metropolitan city of Milan , which replaced the former province of Milan.

Pisapia, who is very popular with the Milanese, did not run for the mayoral election in 2016 and the independent center-left candidate Giuseppe Sala was elected as his successor. In February 2017, Pisapia founded the Campo Progressista party , which positioned itself to the left of the PD, but was ready to work with it as well as with Articolo 1 . The Campo Progressista was replaced by the Area Progressista in August 2017 , but Pisapia no longer holds a leading role. The Area Progressista made an agreement with the PD for the 2019 European elections . Accordingly, Pisapia ran for Northwest Italy at the top of the PD list. He received 269,000 preferential votes and entered the European Parliament . There he belongs to the group of the Progressive Alliance of Social Democrats (S&D).

Since April 29, 2011, Pisapia has been married to the journalist Cinzia Sasso, with whom he had previously lived for 20 years.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ On May 23, Berlusconi from Milan threatened that with the “left-wing extremist” Pisapia, Milan would become an “Islamic city full of gypsies” ( “Milan will be an Islamic city”: Berlusconi warns of “gypsies”) , n-tv, May 23 2011, accessed January 26, 2012)
2. ^ Defeat for Berlusconi in local elections . news.ch. May 30, 2011. Retrieved May 30, 2011.

Web links

Commons : Giuliano Pisapia  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Personal Page (ital.)
• Entry on Giuliano Pisapia in the database of Members of the European Parliament