Michaela Biancofiore

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Michaela Biancofiore (2014)

Michaela Biancofiore (born December 28, 1970 in Bolzano ) is an Italian politician.

Life

Biancofiore is the daughter of a court clerk from Apulia and a Roman mother. According to her own account, she is a law student and entrepreneur in the wellness sector.

In 1994, Biancofiore joined the recently founded Forza Italia party , because she felt herself pushed towards Silvio Berlusconi's leading figure “with the explosive power of a tsunami” . In 1995 she stood in the Bolzano municipal council elections as a candidate for the list Vorwärts Südtirol ( Forza Alto Adige ), but failed with only 18 preferential votes. In 1998 she ran for the South Tyrolean parliament , but was unable to win a seat with 277 preferential votes. As a result, her engagement as a secretary and “advisor” to her lover Franco Frattini gave me the opportunity to significantly advance her political career.

In 2003 Biancofiore became the country coordinator of Forza Italia in South Tyrol . In the same year she was elected to the South Tyrolean state parliament with 3,680 preferential votes and thus at the same time to the regional council of Trentino-South Tyrol . Their first bill proposed that the state of South Tyrol should subsidize the replacement of petrol-powered lawnmowers with new machines at 50% of the purchase price. She caused a major stir with some statements launched in the press, in which she called for the defense of the Italian language within the borders of the republic, advocated the installation of the Italian tricolor on every South Tyrolean farm and finally a "repopulation" of South Tyrolean valleys by Italian workers from the South thought.

In 2005 Biancofiore was the protagonist of two rallies on the occasion of the municipal council and mayoral elections in Bolzano. The first event was particularly famous for the appearance of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who, while telling a joke - embracing the warmly laughing Biancofiore - showed his middle finger to the assembled crowd. After the center-right candidate Giovanni Benussi, who was elected mayor in the first runoff election, failed to find a majority for his city government, new elections were necessary. Biancofiore decided to use the image of Berlusconi, which had been in the press with a raised middle finger, for the Forza Italia election posters and organized a second rally, the climax of which was a direct telephone connection she made to the Prime Minister via mobile phone. As a result, Benussi lost to his competitor Luigi Spagnolli, who was supported by center-left parties and the South Tyrolean People's Party , among others , and was partly to blame for his defeat in what he believed to be a tasteless election campaign. Biancofiore, whose sister Antonella had been councilor of the Alleanza Nazionale from 1997 to 2005 , was elected to the council, but then renounced her mandate.

In the parliamentary elections in 2006 , Biancofiore won a seat in the Chamber of Deputies in the multi-person constituency of Trentino-South Tyrol and resigned from her state and regional council mandate. In the early parliamentary elections in 2008 , she stood in a constituency in Campania in order to gain a secure seat and was able to move back into the Chamber of Deputies as a candidate for the Popolo della Libertà , which was created by the merger of Forza Italia and Alleanza Nazionale .

Biancofiore caused a media stir again when she was allowed to celebrate her 39th birthday in Berlusconi's villa in Arcore and brought a cake with her that was decorated with a picture of the middle finger scene . In June 2011, she hit the headlines of the local press because, as a member of the Bolzano municipal council of the PdL elected in 2010, she stayed without excuse at 56 of the previous 62 meetings. Within the quarreling Italian right in South Tyrol, Biancofiore fought for years with the former exponent of the Alleanza Nazionale Giorgio Holzmann . The points of contention were the relations with the South Tyrolean People's Party and its agenda as well as the political future of South Tyrol, about which it has ambivalent ideas. Biancofiore repeatedly described South Tyrol as a problem for Italy, warned against excessive autonomy and spoke of a “death march” for the Italian-speaking population in the province. On the other hand, however, she announced that she was in favor of a Free State of South Tyrol that could be internally divided into cantons according to the Swiss model, or even suggested converting the country into a tax-exempt “Alpine Montecarlo”.

In the course of the election campaign for the 2013 parliamentary elections , Biancofiore announced that the South Tyroleans should be grateful to the fascists for the introduction of the sewer system, which had successfully pushed back the hitherto widespread public toilets . A short time later she presented her autobiography ( Il Cuore oltre gli ostacoli ), in which she processed her life story - in her own words the story of a girl from the Berlusconi generation , who grew up in the provinces, who thanks to Silvio Berlusconi overcome all obstacles and theirs Could regain hopes and dreams. In the parliamentary elections she ran as a regional top candidate for the Chamber of Deputies and was able to move into the chamber as the only representative of the party due to the poor performance of the PdL in the multi-person constituency of Trentino-South Tyrol. In the course of negotiations to form Prime Minister Enrico Letta's cabinet , Biancofiore brought her name into play by declaring herself perfectly suited to the office of minister. As a result, Berlusconi campaigned for her as State Secretary ( sottosegretario di stato ) to get her a post in the government. In response to her nomination as State Secretary for Equal Opportunities, there were sharp protests from lesbian and gay associations, who referred to various homophobic remarks by Biancofiore. After Biancofiore had strictly rejected an apology for her statements about homosexuals or transsexuals in an interview immediately after her swearing-in and instead attested an alleged "self-ghettoization" of the lesbian and gay associations, her Prime Minister Letta withdrew the responsibilities for equal opportunities, sport and youth policy and rejected her tasks in the field of public administration. On September 28, 2013, at Berlusconi's request, Biancofiore, like the other members of the PdL government, submitted her resignation. After he was given confidence in parliament, Prime Minister Letta was the only one to accept Biancofiore's resignation, amid subsequent protests from those affected.

In the 2018 parliamentary elections , Biancofiore clearly lost 25% of the votes to Maria Elena Boschi in the single constituency of Bolzano and, as the top candidate for Forza Italia, achieved only 6.98% of the votes in the multi-person constituency of Trentino-South Tyrol. Since she had been nominated by her party as a top candidate in a multi-person constituency in Emilia-Romagna to be on the safe side, she managed to get into the Chamber of Deputies again.

Autobiography

Web links

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Biancofiore, Michaela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Bolzano