Mario Borghezio

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Mario Borghezio (2013)

Mario Borghezio (born December 3, 1947 in Turin ) is an Italian politician and member of the Lega Nord . He was a member of the European Parliament from 2001 to 2019 .

Life

Youth and Studies

Mario Borghezio was involved in the new right-wing Jeune Europe movement of Jean-François Thiriart in the 1960s and in the right-wing extremist Ordine Nuovo in the 1970s . In July 1976 he was arrested as the author of a threatening letter against the judge Luciano Violante , who was investigating right-wing extremist terrorist groups. The letter was marked with swastikas and the slogan "Viva Hitler" and contained the threat: "1, 10, 100, 1000 Occorsio". The judge Vittorio Occorsio , who led the proceedings against the perpetrators of the bomb attack in Piazza Fontana , had been murdered the day before by members of the Ordine Nuovo.

Borghezio graduated from the University of Turin with a law degree in 1977 and was subsequently admitted to the bar. In the 1980s he was editor-in-chief of the financial supplement of the neo-fascist magazine Orion by Maurizio Murelli .

National politics

In 1987 he joined the Piedmont Autonomista movement , which became part of the Lega Nord in 1989 . Within the party, Borghezio is seen as a representative of the right fringe. In 1990 he was elected to the Turin City Council, of which he was a member until 2001. In the parliamentary elections in 1992 he was elected to the Camera dei deputati (Chamber of Deputies) of the Italian Parliament, where he represented the constituency of Turin until 2001 (three legislative terms). Borghezio became known through numerous racist actions. Among other things, he had to pay 750,000 lire (approx. 387 euros) as a fine in 1993 for coercing a Moroccan child . Borghezio had held a twelve-year-old street vendor by the arm against his will and handed him over to the Carabinieri.

Speech Borghezios at a meeting of the Lega Nord at the Po sources in Pian del Re (province of Cuneo), September 2010.

In the Berlusconi I cabinet , Borghezio was State Secretary in the Ministry of Justice from May 1994 to January 1995. In July 2005, the Court of Cassation sentenced Mario Borghezio to two months and twenty days' imprisonment (converted to a fine of 3,040 euros) for setting the tents of immigrants sleeping under a bridge on fire in Turin in 2000. From 2004 to 2011 he was the “national” chairman of the Lega Nord in Piedmont (the Lega Nord viewed the regions of northern Italy as individual nations).

MEP

As substitutes for the departed Umberto Bossi Borghezio came to the European Parliament in June 2,001th In the 2004 European elections he was confirmed as a representative of the Lega Nord in the constituency of north-west Italy (with around 35,000 preferential votes ). From 2004-06 he was a board member of the EU-skeptical parliamentary group Independence / Democracy (Ind / Dem). In April 2006 he left the parliamentary group together with the other MEPs of the Lega Nord, in December 2006 they joined the national-conservative parliamentary group Union for Europe of Nations (UEN). In the legislative period until 2009, Borghezio was a member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and the Committee on Petitions.

In the 2009 European elections , he was re-elected with 48,290 preferential votes. In this legislative period he sat in the EU-skeptical and right-wing populist parliamentary group Europe of Freedom and Democracy (EFD) until June 2013 . He was also a member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) and was a delegate in the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee. He was also a member of the special committees on the financial, economic and social crisis (2009–11) and against organized crime, corruption and money laundering (2012–13). On June 9, 2011, Borghezio was taken into custody in Switzerland by the police and temporarily expelled from the canton of Graubünden after he had tried to enter the Suvretta House conference hotel in St. Moritz , where the meeting of the Bilderberg group took place.

In an interview with Radio24 on the program La zanzara , Borghezio said that many of the ideas from Anders Behring Breivik , the perpetrator of the 2011 attacks in Norway, were good and some were excellent. He also blamed a so-called "immigrant invasion" for the outbreak of violence. In a conversation with Radio Ies , he asked how the alleged assassin, whom he described as a mentally deranged ( squilibrato ), who had been known to the authorities before, was able to act in this way, claiming that this massacre was being used to promote ideas, as the Islam critic Oriana Fallaci utters , discredit them. One must defend the Christians, not with the means of the assassin, but one must not allow them to become “sacrificial animals”.

For these statements Roberto Calderoli (coordinator of the national associations) apologized to the Norwegians on behalf of the Lega Nord and judged them as terribili e inqualificabili ("terrible and under all criticism"). Other politicians from other parties also expressed their disapproval. Since then, calls have been made that Mario Borghezio should be released from his mandate in Brussels.

After he insulted the Italian integration minister, Cécile Kyenge, with racist remarks in 2013 , more than 130,000 votes were collected on the platform change.org , calling on parliament to expel Borghezio or at least to take severe disciplinary action against him. Hannes Swoboda ( S&D group chairman), Véronique Mathieu Houillon ( EPP coordinator in the LIBE committee), Guy Verhofstadt ( ALDE group chairman ), Daniel Cohn-Bendit (co-group chairman of the Greens ) and Gabriele Zimmer (group chairman of the GUE / NGL ) condemned the repeated failures of Borghezio in a joint statement and called on the EFD group, of which he is a member, to take action. In May 2013, Borghezio was suspended from the EFD parliamentary group and finally expelled on June 3, 2013.

On February 26, 2014, Borghezio was excluded from the session of the European Parliament after waving a Swiss flag with reference to the adopted federal popular initiative “Against mass immigration” and interfering with heckles that were friendly to Switzerland and critical of the EU.

In the 2014 European elections , Borghezio was elected to represent Central Italy for a further legislative period in the European Parliament. He was also supported by the right-wing extremist CasaPound and received 5,837 preferential votes. Like the other members of the Lega Nord, he was initially non-attached, but from June 2015 they belonged to the Europe of Nations and Freedom Group (ENF). Borghezio was a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Delegate for relations with the Arabian Peninsula until 2019. He was also a member of the committee of inquiry to examine alleged violations of Union law and malpractice in its application in connection with money laundering, tax avoidance and tax evasion (2016-17) and the special committee on financial crime, tax evasion and tax avoidance (2018-19). Borghezio did not run for the 2019 European elections and left the EU Parliament.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Silvana Patriarca: A Crisis of Italian Identity? The Northern League and Italy's Renationalization Since the 1990s. In: Jana Edelmann, Robert Kaiser: Crisis as a Permanent Condition? The Italian Political System between Transition and Reform Resistance. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2016, pp. 61–78, on p. 67.
  2. ^ Giovanna Campani, Birgit Sauer: Neo-fascist and neo-Nati constellations. The cases of Italy and Austria. In: Gabriella Lazaridis, Giovanna Campani: Understanding the Populist Shift. Othering in a Europe in crisis. Routledge, Abingdon (Oxon) / New York 2017, pp. 31-49, at p. 48, fn. 6.
  3. ^ A b c Giovanni Savino: From Evola to Dugin. The Neo-Eurasianist Connection in Italy. In: Marlene Laruelle: Eurasianism and the European Far Right. Reshaping the Europe-Russia Relationship. Lexington Books, Lanham (MD) et al. a. 2015, pp. 97–124, at p. 112.
  4. ↑ Gianni Barbacetto: Il Grande Vecchio. Rizzoli, Milan 2009.
  5. ^ Stella Gian Antonio: Borghezio, via dal Nord le statue di Garibaldi. In: Corriere della Sera , September 8, 1996, p. 5.
  6. ^ CV as a member of the European Parliament
  7. ↑ Leghista violento su minore. In: Corriere della Sera , June 23, 1993.
  8. ↑ Provocò un incendio condannato Borghezio. ( Memento of July 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) In: La Stampa , July 2, 2005, p. 18.
  9. ↑ a b c Entry on Mario Borghezio in the database of representatives of the European Parliament
  10. ↑ Italy calls for clarification after the Bilderberg incident. SF Tagesschau, June 11, 2011. Web archive from June 14, 2011.
  11. ↑ "Molte sue idee sono buone, alcune ottime."
  12. ↑ "E 'per colpa dell'invasione degli immigrati se poi sono sfociate nella violenza."
  13. ↑ "[C] ome è possibile che uno so noto alla autorità possa girare so?"
  14. ↑ "Se noi facciamo due più due capiamo e che questa strage viene utilizzata per condannare posizioni come quelle di Oriana Fallaci [...]"
  15. ^ A b "Non sono nella testa nello squilibrato di Oslo, ma i cristiani non devono essere bestie da sacrificare. Dobbiamo difenderli, questo è il mio messaggio. Ovviamente non con quelle modalità, ma vanno difese [...]. " NN : Borghezio:" Idea di Breivik condivisibili "E Calderoli chiede scusa alla Norvegia , repubblica.it, on July 26th 2011.
  16. ↑ change.org: Fuori Borghezio dal Parlamento europeo. #iostoconCecileKyenge accessed May 22, 2013
  17. ^ GUE / NGL Group in the EP: Political groups in the European Parliament unite against racist and sexist insults from Italian MEP Mario Borghezio. In: Euractiv , May 22, 2013.
  18. ↑ Lega hardliner from parliamentary group in the European Parliament suspended. Südtirol Online, May 23, 2013, archived from the original on June 23, 2013 ; Retrieved May 24, 2013 .
  19. ↑ Italian member of parliament excluded from EU parliamentary group. Die Welt , June 3, 2013, accessed June 3, 2013 .
  20. ↑ Niklaus Nuspliger: Tumults in the EU Parliament - Switzerland creates emotions In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , February 27, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Borghezio, Mario
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian politician (Lega Nord), MEP
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Turin