Role Politician | Name Letizia Moratti Preceded by Claudio Dematte | |
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Political party Forza Italia, The People of Freedom Similar People Giuliano Pisapia, Massimo Moratti, Gian Marco Moratti, Roberto Formigoni, Emilia Bossi | ||
Jacques attali and letizia moratti pef san patrignano 2015
Letizia Moratti (born Letizia Brichetto Arnaboldi; 26 November 1949) is an Italian businesswoman and former politician. She is the former mayor of Milan.
Contents
- Jacques attali and letizia moratti pef san patrignano 2015
- Letizia Moratti and Jacques Attali closing of PEF San Patrignano 2015
- Biography
- Expo 2015
- Controversies
- References
Letizia Moratti and Jacques Attali - closing of PEF San Patrignano 2015
Biography
Moratti was born in Milan. She is married to the oil magnate Gianmarco Moratti (brother of Massimo Moratti) and has two children, Gabriele and Gilda. She is the granddaughter of Mimina Brichetto Arnaboldi, an intellectual society lady who hosted an important salon in Milan in the years before the Second World War, and who was also an ardent anti-fascist.
She is a businesswoman who has worked in insurance and telecommunications. Between 1994 and 1996 she was president of the Italian state television company RAI. At the end of 1998, and for about a year, Letizia Moratti became chairman of News Corp Europe, a company headed by Rupert Murdoch and owner of Stream TV.
From 2001 to 2006 she was Minister of Education, Universities and Research in the second and third Berlusconi cabinet. During her administration reforms of the Italian school system and university teaching was passed.
She ran as a candidate for Mayor of Milan in the 2006 municipal election as the House of Freedoms candidate. She won the election, with over 52% of votes. She ran again in the 2011 municipal election, facing the left-wing candidate Giuliano Pisapia, but lost both first and second round and failed to be re-elected.
Expo 2015
Under Moratti, Milan was selected in 2007 as hosting city for the Expo 2015. Its rival İzmir, Turkey, lost for 61 votes against 86 in the Bureau des Expositions gather in the Palais des congrès of Paris. Moratti was Commissioner of the Expo until 2011, when after his electoral lost, resigned herself as Commissioner, for respect to the new administration.
The Moratti Administration also continued the Gabriele Albertini's parkings program, and in 2006 created 64,000 underground parking spaces, also in neighborhoods like Naviglio Grande and Sant'Ambrogio's zone. In 2007 Moratti launched the "Cycle Mobiliting Plan", that foreseed 53 km of cycling infrastructures, 2,385 new racks in 1,174 different localities, with 5,000 bikes and 250 stations in all city within 2011. In 2008 Moratti created the Ecopass, a road pricing, in the Milan Center. This decision received several critics also in his majority. In 2010 she also launched the use of public electric car in various zones of her city.
Moratti proposed unsuccessfully a park dedicated to Bettino Craxi, the controversial Socialist leader died in exile to Hammamet in 2000.