Roberto Maroni

Roberto Maroni (2010)

Roberto Maroni (born March 15, 1955 in Varese ) is an Italian politician of the Lega Nord , manager and lawyer. In the governments of Silvio Berlusconi he was Italian Interior Minister (May 1994 – January 1995) and Labor Minister (June 2001 – May 2006). From May 2008 to November 2011, he again held the office of Minister of the Interior in Berlusconi's fourth cabinet . From 2013 to 2018 he was President of the Lombardy Region and from 2012 to 2013 party chairman of the Lega Nord.

Political career

Maroni studied law at the University of Milan and graduated in 1979 with a thesis on civil law . After two years as a legal manager for various companies, he began his career as a lawyer.

In politics, he was initially involved in the radical left Democrazia Proletaria before he met Umberto Bossi and in 1990 he joined the Lega Lombarda , whose chairman in his home province of Varese he became. In 1990 he was also elected to the Varese City Council. In 1992 he won a seat in the Chamber of Deputies for the newly formed Lega Nord , whose parliamentary group he took over. At the same time he was elected to the party executive committee of the Lega and contributed in Varese as an accomplished campaigner for the first election of a party friend to the mayor of a provincial capital.

After Berlusconi's election victory in March 1994 , Maroni became Minister of the Interior and Deputy Prime Minister in the Berlusconi I cabinet , which was in office from May 1994 to January 1995. The coalition ended after the head of the Lega Nord , Umberto Bossi, started negotiations in November 1994 with Massimo D'Alema from the KPI successor party Partito Democratico della Sinistra (PDS) and with the central politician Rocco Buttiglione , in which the formation of the Independent experts existing cabinet Dini was agreed. This ruled until May 1996; it was followed by four cabinets without the participation of the Lega Nord (Prodi I, D'Alema I, D'Alema II, Amato II).

In September 1996 Buttiglione was involved in Bossi's secessionist initiative to found an autonomous Republic of Padania , as a result of which he was sentenced to 4 months and 20 days imprisonment for resisting state violence.

When the new center-right alliance Casa delle Libertà was formed in the run-up to the parliamentary elections in May 2001 , Maroni represented his party in drawing up the joint election program. After the new election victory of the constellation, he received the office of Minister of Labor and Social Affairs in the Berlusconi II and III cabinets (2001-2006). After the change of power in May 2006 ( Prodi II cabinet ), Maroni was again chairman of the Lega Nord parliamentary group in the Chamber of Deputies in the 15th legislative period and worked on the Foreign Affairs Committee and the election committee.

On May 8, 2008, when the Berlusconi IV cabinet took office, he became Italian interior minister for the second time. He left office four months before the end of that cabinet (November 16, 2011) in July. He was succeeded by one of his two state secretaries, the then Lega Nord politician Michelino Davico .

In February 2013 he was elected President of the Lombardy Region. As such, he turned against immigration (as before in the ministerial office).

honors and awards

• 2008 Knight of the Order of Pius

See also

• History of Italy

Web links

Commons : Roberto Maroni  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikiquote: Roberto Maroni  - Quotes (Italian)

• Profile at the Italian Chamber of Deputies (Italian)
• Profile to the OECD (English)

Footnotes

1. ^ Buttiglione soon afterwards founded the Cristiani Democratici Uniti party
2. ↑ see also Italian Wikipedia / www.senato.it
3. ↑ Regina Kerner: Italy's north wants to be refugee-free , in: Frankfurter Rundschau , May 9, 2015, p. 9
4. ^ Order of Pius

predecessor	Office	successor
Cesare Salvi	Italian Minister of Labor and Social Affairs June 11, 2001 - May 17, 2006	Cesare Damiano