Maurizio Lupi
Maurizio Lupi (born October 3, 1959 in Milan ) is an Italian politician . He has been a member of the Chamber of Deputies since 2001 and was its Vice-President from 2006-08. He was also the Italian Minister of Infrastructure and Transport in the Letta and Renzi governments from April 2013 to March 2015 .
Life
Lupi graduated from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan in 1984 with a degree in Political and Economic Sciences and then became a journalist and member of the Catholic movement Comunione e Liberazione . From 1989 he was also a manager in the administration of Milan trade fair organizers .
In 1993 he moved to the city council of Milan as a member of the Democrazia Cristiana , and in 1994 he switched to Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia party . From 1997 to 2001 he was mayor Gabriele Albertini's deputy , responsible for regional planning and construction. In the parliamentary elections in 2001 , he won a mandate as a direct candidate in the constituency of Merate . In the Chamber of Deputies , he was the spokesman for the Forza Italia group in the Committee on the Environment, Regional Planning and Public Works. From 2006 to 2008 he was one of the four vice-presidents of the Chamber of Deputies.
On April 28, 2013 he was appointed Minister of Infrastructure and Transport in the Letta cabinet ("Grand Coalition"). In autumn 2013, he resisted Berlusconi's request to withdraw confidence in the Letta government. Lupi and other conservative politicians with a Catholic orientation joined forces under the leadership of Deputy Prime Minister Angelino Alfano to form the new center-right Nuovo Centrodestra (NCD) party . This continued to support the Letta government and, after the cabinet reshuffle in February 2014, the Renzi government .
On March 20, 2015, Lupi resigned from his ministerial office because of a scandal surrounding the award of public works contracts. Fifty people, but not Lupi, are suspected of corruption, and the ministry's senior official, Ercole Incalza, and the contractor Stefano Perotti were arrested. In addition, as a minister, Lupi is said to have been inappropriately committed to the professional advancement of his son. His successor in office was Graziano Delrio , who is a member of the Partito Democratico . In April 2015, Lupi took over the chairmanship of the NCD parliamentary group in the House of Representatives. In the run-up to the parliamentary elections in March 2018 , however, he left the alternative party, which had emerged from the NCD , as it entered into a center-left electoral alliance with the Partito Democratico. Instead, Lupi ran for the Noi con l'Italia list , which was part of the center-right alliance with Forza Italia and Lega Nord , and was re-elected as a direct MP for the Merate constituency.
Web links
- Personal internet presence
- Data on camera.it
- Maurizio Lupi throws in the towel . Tageblatt Online , March 19, 2015
Individual evidence
- ↑ James Politi: Premier confronted with first scandal , in: Financial Times , March 21, 2015, p. 4
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lupi, Maurizio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian politician, member of the Camera dei deputati |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 3rd October 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Milan |