Ivan Scalfarotto

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Ivan Scalfarotto (2018)

Ivan Scalfarotto (born August 16, 1965 in Pescara ) is an Italian LGBT activist, author and politician . He was deputy chairman of the Partito Democratico from 2009 to 2013 . Since 2013 he has been a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies , and since September 2019 State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs .

Life

After studying law at the University of Naples Federico II , from which he graduated with honors, Scalfarotto worked at the Banca Commerciale Italiana (Comit) and later at the Banco Ambrosiano Veneto . From 2002 worked in London as head of human resources for Citigroup Europe.

From 1988 to 1995 Scalfarotto was a party member of Federazione dei Verdi . In the following years he was close to the center-left alliance L'Ulivo , but expressed his disappointment in the Prodi I government in a letter to the editor in November 1996 to La Repubblica . He was then seen as the spokesman for the disappointed L'Ulivo voters and invited to talks with Prime Minister Romano Prodi and Minister of Culture Walter Veltroni . In 2001 Scalfarotto founded the Adottiamo la Costituzione (“Let's Adopt the Constitution”) movement, which advocated the protection of the Italian Constitution.

Scalfarotto at a demonstration against homophobia (2009)

During his time in London in 2003 Scalfarotto created the first circle of the left-wing liberal movement Libertà e Giustizia ("Freedom and Justice") outside Italy. In October 2005 he ran for the primary election for the top candidacy of the center-left alliance L'Unione and received almost 27,000 votes (0.6%). Together with the journalist Luca Sofri and the astrophysicist Sandra Savaglio, he then founded the iMille movement , which campaigned for a renewal of the Italian center-left spectrum.

At the invitation of the then party chairman Piero Fassino , Scalfarotto joined the Democratici di Sinistra party ("Left Democrats") in 2007 . In the same year, this merged with other center-left parties to form the Partito Democratico (PD), which Scalfarotto subsequently belonged to. In October 2007 he was elected to the party executive committee. In the 2008 general election , he ran in the Lombardy constituency 1, but was not elected. Scalfarotto also ran unsuccessfully in the European elections in May 2009 . On November 7, 2009, he was elected alongside Marina Sereni as vice-chairman of the Partito Democratico and remained so until December 2013.

In the 2013 parliamentary elections , he succeeded in entering the Camera dei Deputati as a representative of the Apulia region . In the Renzi cabinet , he was initially State Secretary in the departments for “Institutional Reforms” and “Relations with Parliament” and from April 2016 in the Ministry for Economic Development . He was the first publicly professed LGBT activist in Italy to hold a government position. In the 2018 parliamentary elections , he was re-elected to the Chamber of Deputies, this time as a representative of Lombardy, but the PD then went into opposition.

In September 2019, he was appointed State Secretary in the Foreign Ministry in the Conte II cabinet . In the same month he resigned from the Democratic Party and joined the Italia Viva party initiated by Matteo Renzi .

Works (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ivan Scalfarotto , Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri, accessed on September 22, 2019.
  2. ^ A b Concita De Gregorio: Da Londra arriva un outsider "Darò voce ai quarantenni esclusi". In: La Repubblica , August 6, 2005.
  3. ^ Sebastiano Messina: 'L'Ulivo sfiorisce' tra elettori e amici cresce la delusione. In: La Repubblica , November 6, 1996.
  4. ↑ Claudia Fusani: Pd, parte la corsa degli under 40 Adinolfi si candida, "iMille" con Walter. In: La Repubblica.it , July 18, 2007.
personal data
SURNAME Scalfarotto, Ivan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian politician (Italia Viva), member of the Camera dei deputati
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Pescara , Italy