Name Giorgio Stracquadanio | Role Italian Politician | |
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Similar People Silvio Berlusconi, Giovanni Ferrara, Leo Valiani, Leopoldo Piccardi, Paolo Ungari | ||
Occupation politician, journalist | ||
Giorgio Clelio Stracquadanio (22 March 1959 – 31 January 2014) was an Italian politician and journalist.
Biography
Born in Milan, Stracquadanio began his political career in the 1980s as an activist for the Radical Party in Milan with the municipal councillor Tiziana Maiolo.
In 1996 he ran unsuccessfully as an MP for Silvio Berlusconi's Polo delle Libertà .
In 2006 he was elected to the Italian Senate with Forza Italia. While still taking part in Forza Italia's activities, he joined the parliamentary group "Democrazia Cristiana per le Autonomie" to allow them to reach the minimum required quorum for group constitution. As a legislator he rejected a proposal for the diminishing of members of parliament's salaries and benefits.
In 2006 he was elected to be a member of the General Council of the Transnational Radical Party.
In the 2008 general elections, he was not elected but received the seat of Cristiana Muscardini who opted instead to serve in the European Parliament. He then sat with the People of Freedom in the Italian Chamber of Deputies.
Stracquadanio also worked as a journalist with the right-wing newspaper Libero, for which he edited some political pamphlets.
In 2009-2010, Stracquadanio was criticized for many controversial statements, including:
In July 2012 he left Berlusconi's party and joined the political project built by Mario Monti. Stracquadanio died of lung cancer on January 31, 2014 at the age of 54.