Lorenzo Dellai

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Lorenzo Dellai (2009)

Lorenzo Dellai (born November 18, 1959 in Trento ) is an Italian politician ( DC , PPI , Margherita , UpT , SC , Demo.S ). From 1990 to 1999 he was mayor of Trento, from 1999 to 2012 governor of Trentino and during this time he was twice president of the Trentino-South Tyrol region . From 2013 to 2018 he was a member of the Italian House of Representatives and chairman of the Scelta Civica and Democrazia Solidale - Centro Democratico .

Career

Dellai is married and has three children. He joined the Democrazia Cristiana (DC) in 1977 . He mentions the social reform priest Don Lorenzo Milani as a political role model .

Mayor of Trento

In 1990 he was elected mayor of Trento as a joint candidate by Christian Democrats, Socialists and Greens . Five years later he was re-elected with an absolute majority .

Governor of Trentino

In 1998 he made the leap into the Trentino state parliament and at the same time the regional council of Trentino-South Tyrol . After serving briefly as President of the Regional Council, he was elected Governor of Trentino for the first time in February 1999 . Dellai was the originator of the lista civica Margherita (citizens' list "Margerite"), an amalgamation of the Partito Popolare Italiano (PPI, emerged from the DC that broke up in 1994) and reform parties, which became the model for the establishment of Margherita on a national level in 2001. He was confirmed in office on October 26, 2003, with a majority of 60.8% of the vote, with the support of his Margherita party as well as the left- wing Democrats , the PATT , the Greens and smaller groups. According to a politically agreed principle of rotation , which alternates between the Trentino and the South Tyrolean governor at the head of the Trentino-Alto Adige region, Dellai acted as president (2006–2009, 2011–2013) or vice-president (2004–2013) for half of the following two legislative periods. 2006, 2009–2011) in the regional government .

After the Partito Democratico was founded in 2007, the Civica Margherita split in 2008 . Dellai did not join the Democratic Party, but founded the Union for Trentino as an autonomous, Christian Democratic regional party. He won the state elections of November 9, 2008 as a candidate for a broad center-left alliance (which also included the PD, PATT and the Greens), this time with 57%. In November 2009 Dellai was also involved in the founding of the new Alleanza per l'Italia (ApI) of his long-time companion Francesco Rutelli , which positioned itself at the national level between the two major political blocs.

On December 29, 2012, Dellai declared that he wanted to run for the Italian parliament next February and subsequently resigned from all his offices and mandates. Dellai's previous deputy Alberto Pacher (PD) took over the official duties of the Trentino governor and regional president .

Member of the Italian Parliament

Dellai was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in the parliamentary elections in 2013 as the top candidate of the Scelta Civica (the civil list of Mario Montis ) and there on March 19, 2013 as "Capogruppo" ( parliamentary group chairman ). In the same year he received the Great Order of Merit of the Province of South Tyrol . In the course of the split between the liberal and the Christian Democratic wing, Dellai left the Scelta Civica in November and joined the small Christian Democratic party Popolari per l'Italia (PpI). This split again in July 2014 and Dellai founded the Democrazia Solidale (Demo.S), which supported Matteo Renzi's center-left government. In the 2018 parliamentary elections , he ran for the Civica Popolare list as part of the center-left coalition, but missed re-election.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biography Dellai Lorenzo , Regional Council Trentino-South Tyrol, 2013. Accessed on September 30, 2018.
  2. Rutelli launches Alleanza per l'Italia: Dellai here ( Memento from March 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) , stol.it, November 11, 2009
  3. Dellai resigned - Pacher takes over ( memento of October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) , stol.it, December 29, 2012
  4. Civic Choice: Dellai capo gruppo Camera. ANSA , March 19, 2013, accessed March 19, 2013 (Italian).

Web links

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