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Antonio Fazio | |
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Governor of Banca d'Italia | |
In office 28 April 1993 – 19 December 2005 |
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Preceded by | Carlo Azeglio Ciampi |
Succeeded by | Mario Draghi |
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Born | Alvito, Italy |
11 October 1936
Nationality | Italian |
Antonio Fazio (born 11 October 1936 in Alvito, province of Frosinone) is an Italian banker, who was the Governor of Banca d'Italia from 1993 until his resignation amidst controversy at the end of 2005.
He is reported to be very religious, and close to the Vatican. He has five children. The youngest of his daughters has been consecrated to the order of Legionaries of Christ, a lay religious organization (some newspapers reported incorrectly she was becoming a nun).
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He started work at the Bank of Italy in 1960. In 1993, after his predecessor Carlo Azeglio Ciampi left office to become the Italian Prime Minister, he became governor of the Bank of Italy. Some years after his appointment, it was said that he was interested in the leadership of the left-wing coalition to beat Berlusconi's right wing one. After Berlusconi won the 2001 general election, however, he came to be considered closer to the centre-right.
In 2005, Fazio came under heavy pressure to resign (which he eventually did) over his role in allegedly rigging the competition to take over an Italian bank, Banca Antonveneta, earlier in the year. Published excerpts of tapped telephone calls strongly suggest that Fazio favoured an Italian bid, probably in order to sabotage a foreign bid from Dutch bank ABN AMRO.
Silvio Berlusconi's government, itself in troubled times because of the utter defeat in the regional elections of April 2005, was accused of weakness for not kicking Fazio out of office. On 21 September 2005, economy minister Domenico Siniscalco resigned in protest against the lack of determination in the government[1]. The government maintained that it had no power to remove the governor of the central bank.
Gianpiero Fiorani was arrested on 14 December 2005 for investigation of his role in the affair, and Fazio was officially put under investigation in Milan for insider trading on 16 December[2]. He is also under investigation in Rome for having pressured the apparatus of the Bank of Italy to give green light to Fiorani's takeover of Antonveneta.
Although he had resisted calls to resign for months, these latest developments were the last straw, and Fazio stepped down on 19 December 2005[3]. A new governor, Mario Draghi, was appointed on 29 December 2005.
On 28 May 2011, An Italian court sentenced him four years in jail for market-rigging related to a 2005 takeover battle over Italian bank Banca Antonveneta. A Milan court has also ordered Fazio – who headed the Bank of Italy from 1993 to 2005 – to pay a 1.5 million euro ($2.14 million) fine for his role in the takeover saga pitting Dutch Bank ABN AMRO against Italy's Banca Popolare Italiana (BPI)[1].
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Preceded by Carlo Azeglio Ciampi |
Governor of Banca d'Italia 1993–2005 |
Succeeded by Mario Draghi |
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Full name | Antonio Cassano | ||
Date of birth | 12 July 1982 | ||
Place of birth | Bari, Italy | ||
Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
Playing position | Striker | ||
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Current club | Milan | ||
Number | 99 | ||
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Bari | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
1999–2001 | Bari | 48 | (6) |
2001–2006 | Roma | 118 | (39) |
2006–2008 | Real Madrid | 19 | (2) |
2007–2008 | → Sampdoria (loan) | 22 | (10) |
2008–2011 | Sampdoria | 74 | (25) |
2011– | Milan | 33 | (7) |
National team‡ | |||
1998 | Italy U15 | 9 | (2) |
1998 | Italy U16 | 2 | (0) |
1999 | Italy U18 | 2 | (0) |
2000 | Italy U20 | 8 | (2) |
2000–2002 | Italy U21 | 9 | (3) |
2003– | Italy | 29 | (9) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 13 May 2012. † Appearances (Goals). |
Antonio Cassano (born 12 July 1982) is an Italian professional footballer who plays for Serie A club Milan as a striker. Nicknamed Il Gioiello di Bari Vecchia ("the jewel of Old Bari"), he is known for his short temper as much as his ability on the pitch, which led to the coining of the neologism Cassanata by his former coach, Fabio Capello, in November 2002. The word is regularly used by Italian journalists as a euphemism for any behavior incompatible with team spirit in football.[1]
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Cassano was born in Bari[2] and his father left the family shortly thereafter.[citation needed] He was raised in the Bari Vecchia neighbourhood, and began playing football at an early age. Cassano was spotted by an A.S. Bari scout and brought up through the team's youth system, and he made his Serie A debut for Bari against local rivals U.S. Lecce in 1999.
At the age of nineteen, Cassano signed with reigning Serie A champions A.S. Roma, for a transfer fee of 60billion Italian lire (about €30 million).[3] His first season produced five goals, and he attracted media attention after openly clashing with coach Fabio Capello after he was left out of a practice match a few days after his international debut. In the 2003 Italian Cup final against A.C. Milan, Cassano was sent off after protesting an official's decision, and he flashed the sign of the horns at the referee while leaving the pitch.
He was omitted from the squad during Roma's tumultuous 2004–05 campaign while Luigi Delneri, Roma's third coach of the season (after Cesare Prandelli and Rudi Völler), was in charge. After Delneri himself resigned during the season, his replacement, Bruno Conti, returned Cassano to the starting lineup, with Cassano captaining the team in the absence of incumbent Francesco Totti, who was serving a five-match suspension.
During the 2005–06 preseason, Cassano was in constant conflict with club management over the renewal of his contract, which was due to expire on June 30, 2006.[4] In January 2006, he acrimoniously parted ways with Roma and signed with Real Madrid.[5] for just €5M.[6]
Cassano became the second ever Italian player to sign for Real Madrid after former Roma teammate Christian Panucci. His début came on 18 January 2006, in a Spanish Cup match against Real Betis, and scored his first goal just three minutes after entering the match in the second half.[2] However, just four months into his tenure with the club, he began gaining weight due to poor eating habits, which resulted in Madrid fining him for every gram he remained over his playing weight.
On 30 October, Madrid's official website announced that Cassano had been suspended due to his “disrespect” of Capello, who had joined the club at the beginning of 2006–07 season, following a dressing room argument arising from his omission from the team after a game against Gimnàstic de Tarragona,[7] and was subsequently benched along with David Beckham and Ronaldo. In an interview with a Roman radio station, Cassano said he would "walk all the way back" to rejoin Roma, and indicated his eagerness to make peace with Totti, with whom Cassano had conflicted with before his departure from Roma. However, Cassano remained with Madrid after the January 2007 transfer window had closed, and the rest of his season was cut short by an ankle injury.
In an interview with Spanish radio in July 2007, Real Madrid president Ramón Calderón described Cassano's attitude as "unsustainable in the last couple of months" and indicated that he would be leaving the club.[8]
On 13 August 2007, Sampdoria took Cassano on a one-year loan, agreeing to pay €1.2 million of his €4.2 million salary.[2] He was presented to approximately 2,500 fans five days later.[citation needed] In his first press conference, Cassano said that since his first-choice number 18 was already taken by teammate Vladimir Koman, he had instead chosen 99, because 9 plus 9 equals 18.
He made his Sampdoria début in the Derby della Lanterna against Genoa on 23 September, in which he was substituted by former Roma teammate Vincenzo Montella in the final minutes of the match. Cassano scored his first league goal upon his return against Atalanta a week later, in a 3–0 victory. He scored in three consecutive games in January, and helped end league leaders Inter Milan's winning league run with a goal in a 1–1 draw. However, Cassano was sent off in a 2–2 draw with Torino FC on 2 March 2008, which he compounded by hurling his shirt at the referee as he left the pitch,[9] and was punished with a five-match ban. Sampdoria ended the season with a UEFA Cup berth, while Cassano was acquired on a permanent basis by the club on free transfer (plus bonus) from Madrid.[10]
In his second season, Cassano confirmed to have temperamentally improved, also becoming vice-captain for the team behind Angelo Palombo. After the January signing of Giampaolo Pazzini from ACF Fiorentina, Cassano managed to form a fruitful striking partnership with the former viola forward, that was praised by both media and Sampdoria supporters, and led club chairman Riccardo Garrone to compare it with striking duo of Gianluca Vialli and Roberto Mancini that led Sampdoria to win their only scudetto to date,[11] an opinion that was later shared also by both Vialli and Mancini.[12][13]
His third season with Sampdoria again began very well for Cassano, who affirmed himself as a valid assist-man for Pazzini, and being instrumental in the club's impressive seasonal start, that led them up to first place after a 1-0 home win to Inter. However, a result crisis, including a 3-0 defeat in the local derby against crosstown rivals Genoa, left Sampdoria down to mid-table on January, leading head coach Luigi Delneri to put Cassano off the team for "technical and tactical reasons", casting doubts about the player's future at the club.
In the final days of the transfer window, he was linked with a move on loan to Fiorentina, that was however denied with an official statement from the club,[14] but was described by the media as Cassano's own refusal to leave Sampdoria.[15] This was confirmed by Cassano himself through an official statement published on Sampdoria's website, citing his relationship with club chairman Riccardo Garrone, his teammates and the team supporters as the main reason for his choice.[16]
On October 2010 Cassano was excluded from the first team squad with immediate effect after he had a heated row with chairman Riccardo Garrone following the player's refusal to attend an award ceremony.[17] Following such events, Sampdoria formally applied for a contract termination to a league arbitration panel, a position that was confirmed even after Cassano apologised to Garrone and the club.[18] On December 16, the arbitration panel ordered Sampdoria to reinclude Cassano into the first team from 1 January 2011, rejecting the blucerchiati's request for a contract termination, but also concluding Cassano will be paid only 50% of his salary for the remainder of his contract.[19]
On 20 December 2010, it was reported that A.C. Milan, Sampdoria and the player agreed the installment plan to pay a €5 million to Real Madrid which was indicated in Cassano's buy-out clause when he left the Spanish club. Eventually Sampdoria paid €5 million to Real Madrid[20]; Milan paid €3.33 million to Sampdoria,[20] while Cassano had a wage cut with Milan. Cassano then signed a three-and-a-half year contract with Milan,[21] which was later confirmed by Milan's owner Silvio Berlusconi.[22] He made his debut for his new club in a 1-0 win against Cagliari Calcio where he came on as a substitute for Alexander Merkel in the latter stages of the game. He scored his first goal for Milan in a 4-0 win against Parma. He went on to score three more goals that season, two against former clubs Bari and Sampdoria and the other one a penalty against fierce rivals Internazionale.
He never really claimed a spot in the starting XI and was behind Zlatan Ibrahimović, Alexandre Pato and Robinho in the Milan pecking order and due to his wish to keep his spot in the Italian national side, a lot of speculation formed over his future with links to Fiorentina and even English Premier League club Liverpool F.C.. In the end, though, he stayed with Milan and, after a good pre-season, scored in the first Serie A game of 2011-12 against Roman side S.S. Lazio.
Cassano has sixteen caps and four goals with Italy. His début came in November 2003 against Poland, in which he scored his first goal. He was part of Italy's UEFA Euro 2004 squad as a reserve, but after Totti was suspended following a spitting incident with Christian Poulsen in a group match against Denmark, Cassano was inserted into the starting lineup for a 1–1 draw with Sweden in which he scored. He also netted a last-minute winner in a 2–1 victory over Bulgaria, but Italy were eliminated in the group stage on goal difference.
Cassano was left off the final roster for the 2006 World Cup, but was called up for two Euro 2008 qualifying matches in September 2006. He was part of the finals roster and went scoreless in the tournament as Italy were eliminated in the quarter-finals by Spain after a penalty shootout.
After a two-year absence from the Azzurri team, and following widespread criticism from the media towards Marcello Lippi about his exclusion from the 2010 FIFA World Cup squad, Cassano was readmitted into the Italian team on August 6, 2010 by new head coach Cesare Prandelli for his first game in charge of the team, a friendly match against Côte d'Ivoire to played on August 10 at Upton Park, London.[23] Almost a month later, in Italy's UEFA Euro 2012 qualifier played in Estonia Cassano scored the tying goal in a 1-2 away victory and also assisted Leonardo Bonucci's second goal with a back-heel. Cassano scored a long-range goal from just outside the box in Italy's 5-0 UEFA Euro 2012 qualifier win over the Faroe Islands. He scored again against Estonia helping Italy secure a 3-0 win.
Cassano got engaged with water polo player, Carolina Marcialis, in 2008 and then married at June 19, 2010 at church, Chiesa di San Martino, in Portofino.[24] Cassano's wife gave birth to the couple's first child, a son, his name is Christopher, he was born on March 14, 2011.[25]
It was reported that on 30 October 2011, Cassano complained of finding it difficult to speak or move when the team returned to Milan.[26]
AC Milan announced and confirmed on 2 November 2011, that Antonio Cassano suffered ischemic-based cerebral damage, though it should be temporary.[27] Cassano underwent minor heart surgery soon after[28], he returned to action in the Serie A on April 25th, 2012, even scoring on his return to the side in a fixture against Genoa.
Cassano is a brand ambassador for Diadora, currently wearing their Evoluzione K Pro GX 14 football boot in Black/Fluorescent Yellow[29]
Reference: La Gazzetta dello Sport
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Apps | Goals | Assists | Apps | Goals | Assists | Apps | Goals | Assists | Apps | Goals | Assists | ||
Bari | 1999–2000 | 21 | 3 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 21 | 3 | 0 |
2000–01 | 27 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | 29 | 3 | 2 | |
Total | 48 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | 50 | 6 | 2 | |
Roma | 2001–02 | 22 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 6 | 0 |
2002–03 | 27 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 43 | 14 | 3 | |
2003–04 | 33 | 14 | 4 | - | - | - | 6 | 4 | 0 | 39 | 18 | 4 | |
2004–05 | 31 | 9 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 42 | 11 | 1 | |
2005–06 | 5 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 2 | |
Total | 118 | 39 | 8 | 16 | 3 | 0 | 27 | 10 | 2 | 161 | 52 | 10 | |
Real Madrid | 2005–06 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 2 | 1 |
2006–07 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 2 | 2 | |
Total | 19 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 4 | 3 | |
Sampdoria | 2007–08 | 22 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 10 | 6 |
2008–09 | 35 | 12 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 45 | 15 | 18 | |
2009–10 | 32 | 9 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 0 | - | - | - | 33 | 11 | 10 | |
2010–11 | 7 | 4 | 2 | - | - | - | 3 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 5 | 4 | |
Total | 96 | 35 | 33 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 115 | 41 | 38 | |
Milan | 2010–11 | 17 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | 21 | 4 | 6 |
2011–12 | 16 | 3 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 19 | 4 | 10 | |
Total | 33 | 7 | 16 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 40 | 8 | 16 | |
Career total | 314 | 89 | 62 | 34 | 8 | 0 | 47 | 14 | 7 | 395 | 111 | 69 |
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Year | Apps | Goals |
2003 | 2 | 1 |
2004 | 4 | 2 |
2005 | 2 | 0 |
2006 | 2 | 0 |
2007 | - | - |
2008 | 5 | 0 |
2009 | - | - |
2010 | 5 | 2 |
2011 | 8 | 4 |
2012 | 1 | 0 |
Total | 29 | 9 |
# | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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1 | 12 November 2003 | Warsaw, Poland | Poland | 3 – 1 | Lost | Friendly |
2 | 18 June 2004 | Lisbon, Portugal | Sweden | 1 – 1 | Draw | UEFA Euro 2004 |
3 | 22 June 2004 | Guimarães, Portugal | Bulgaria | 2 – 1 | Win | UEFA Euro 2004 |
4 | 3 September 2010 | Tallinn, Estonia | Estonia | 1 – 2 | Win | UEFA Euro 2012 Qualification |
5 | 7 September 2010 | Florence, Italy | Faroe Islands | 5 – 0 | Win | UEFA Euro 2012 Qualification |
6 | 3 June 2011 | Modena, Italy | Estonia | 3 – 0 | Win | UEFA Euro 2012 Qualification |
7 | 2 September 2011 | Tórshavn, Faroe Islands | Faroe Islands | 1 – 0 | Win | UEFA Euro 2012 Qualification |
8 | 11 October 2011 | Pescara, Italy | Northern Ireland | 3 – 0 | Win | UEFA Euro 2012 Qualification |
9 | 11 October 2011 | Pescara, Italy | Northern Ireland | 3 – 0 | Win | UEFA Euro 2012 Qualification |
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Born | Porto Sant'Elpidio, Italy |
31 July 1966
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1994 - present |
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Onorevole Antonio Di Pietro | |
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Minister of Infrastructures | |
In office May 17, 2006 – May 8, 2008 |
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Prime Minister | Romano Prodi |
Deputy | Angelo Capodicasa |
Preceded by | Pietro Lunardi |
Succeeded by | Altero Matteoli |
Minister of Public Works | |
In office May 17, 1996 – November 20, 1996 |
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Prime Minister | Romano Prodi |
Preceded by | Paolo Baratta |
Succeeded by | Paolo Costa |
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Born | Montenero di Bisaccia, Italy |
October 2, 1950
Nationality | Italian |
Political party | Italia dei Valori |
Profession | Politician Judge |
Antonio Di Pietro (born October 2, 1950) is an Italian politician. He was a Member of the European Parliament, an Italian Senator, and Minister of the Prodi Government. He was a prosecutor in the team known in Italy as Mani Pulite (Clean Hands) in the early 1990s.
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Born into a poor rural family from Montenero di Bisaccia (Molise), as a very young man Di Pietro would go to Germany to work in the morning in a factory and in the afternoon in a sawmill in order to pay for his studies. Back in Italy, he graduated from night school[1] with a degree in law in 1978 and was admitted to serve as a police officer. After a few years, he started a judicial career as a prosecutor.[2][3]
In February 1991, Di Pietro began investigating Milan's politicians and business leaders for corruption and kickbacks.[4] Together with other well-known magistrates such as Francesco Saverio Borrelli, Ilda Boccassini, Gherardo Colombo, and Piercamillo Davigo, he worked on the Mani Pulite ("Clean Hands") team, which investigated political corruption.[5] As part of this team, he investigated hundreds of local and national politicians, all the way up to the most important national political figures, including Bettino Craxi.[1] The Italian press named the investigation "Tangentopoli" ("Bribesville").[6]
He soon became the most popular of the Mani Pulite judges, due to his peculiar way of speaking, with a number of dialectal inflections and expressions, coupled with a pronounced accent and a determined disposition.
When the Tangentopoli investigation focused on Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Di Pietro became the focus of a slander campaign and strong political pressure, leading him to resign from the judiciary.[4]
Di Pietro was also known for being one of the first Italian prosecutors to use digital technologies in his work, using computers and visual presentations, which raised some protests (for example, by advocate Guido Spazzali).[citation needed] Di Pietro soon became interested in information technology (IT), and used it actively in his work. Instead of taking classics—in Italy, the usual high-school education for lawyers—he had studied to become an electronics technician (though he has never taken a computer course).[7] He still maintains an interest in IT, with his blog[8] and YouTube conferences.
Once he uttered a famous sentence to describe his own behaviour: "As a bricklayer I tried to build my walls straight, as a policeman I tried to arrest criminals, and as a judge I tried to bring people to trial when there was good reason to do so."[citation needed]
After the Mani Pulite investigations resulted in the disbandment of the previous ruling parties (first of all, Democrazia Cristiana), Di Pietro was called into Romano Prodi's new governing team as minister for Public Works,[4] with responsibility for the areas most affected by bribery—all the initiatives financed by the state. Here he tried to impose a controversial project which would have doubled the main national motorway between Bologna and Florence. It provoked violent opposition by inhabitants of the interested areas. Ecologists, who had supported Prodi's coalition, protested the plan, which would have destroyed Apennine valleys and woods.[citation needed]
Romano Prodi had previously been the subject of an investigation run by Di Pietro, but the charges had been dropped before any trial.
Di Pietro came under investigation himself in 1997 for his activities both in the police and as a judge. It was later found that the main prosecutor handling Di Pietro's case, Fabio Salamone from Brescia, was the brother of a man that Di Pietro himself had prosecuted, and who had been sentenced to 18 months of jail for various corruption charges. Although it took some time for the authorities to realize this, Salamone was eventually allocated other duties and, after years of trials, Di Pietro was eventually cleared of all charges.
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After being cleared, Di Pietro started a political career, something he had previously excluded on the grounds that he did not want to exploit the popularity he had gained while doing what he perceived to be just his duty. He was elected to the Italian Senate in a by-election caused by the resignation of a senator, and defeated right-wing journalist Giuliano Ferrara in the Mugello constituency, a left wing stronghold.
He later founded his own movement, Italia dei Valori (Italy of Values), making its main theme the fight against political corruption in Italy. As a protest against the growing tolerance of corruption in most Italian political parties, and the complacent attitude of left-wing politicians like Massimo D'Alema towards Berlusconi, he did not run alongside the left-wing coalition in the Italian general election of 2001, which was won by Silvio Berlusconi's coalition.
Di Pietro's movement collected just short of the nationwide four-percent limit necessary for entry to the Lower Chamber of the Parliament under proportional representation, and gained a single senator—who immediately defected to Berlusconi's party.
Running alongside the former leader of the Italian Communist Party and founder of the Democratic Party of the Left, Achille Occhetto, he received two seats in the European Elections of 2004. The other seat is currently taken by Giulietto Chiesa, a journalist.
Di Pietro was one of seven candidates for leader of the left-wing coalition The Union for the general election held on October 16, 2005—eventually won by Romano Prodi—in which he obtained 3.3 percent of the votes, ranking fourth.
On May 17, 2006 Di Pietro was appointed Minister of Infrastructures by Romano Prodi, as part of his new government.
He is a member of the Bureau of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Legal Affairs. He is also a substitute for the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and chairs the Delegation for relations with South Africa.
On January 30, 2006 he published a letter in the Italian newspaper L'Unità, in which he promised to work for a law that will prohibit anyone from being elected more than twice consecutively (although he has been an MP since 1996), and prohibiting anyone who has received a definitive sentence from becoming a candidate in elections.[citation needed]
In September 2010, Di Pietro harshly criticized Berlusconi and the parliament for approving a controversial tax amnesty bill.[9]
In December 2006, Di Pietro started a vidcast on YouTube, a video sharing website. In the vidcast, issued weekly since January 2007, Di Pietro talks about the issues discussed in the weekly Government Cabinet.[10] Other prominent politicians, such as Angela Merkel of Germany, had released one-off vidcasts, but this was perhaps the first time that a minister of a government in office had a regular vidcast.[citation needed]
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Preceded by Paolo Baratta |
Italian Minister of Public Works 1996 |
Succeeded by Paolo Costa |
Preceded by Pietro Lunardi |
Italian Minister of Infrastructures 2006-2008 |
Succeeded by Altero Matteoli |
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Member of the Italian Senate Legislatures XIII 1997 - 2001 |
Succeeded by Title jointly held |
Preceded by Title jointly held |
Member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies Legislatures XV, XVI 2006 - present |
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President of Italy of Values 1998 - |
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