President: Sergio Mattarella. Sergio Mattarella, a constitutional court judge and veteran centre-left politician, was chosen as president by members of parliament in January He succeeded Giorgio Napolitano, who stepped down due to old age. Mr Mattarella was the candidate proposed by Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, but was opposed by the centre-right party of Silvio Berlusconi. He was little known among the general public but is a respected figure in political circles after a year parliamentary career and several stints as minister in governments of the left and right.
He entered politics after his elder brother, who was president of the region of Sicily, was murdered by the Mafia The Italian president is a largely ceremonial figure, but he wields important powers at times of political instability, a frequent scourge in Italy, when he can dissolve parliament, call elections and pick prime ministers. Prime Minister: Matteo Renzi.
Matteo Renzi became the youngest prime minister in modern Italian history after triggering the ousting of his fellow centre-left Democratic Party PD colleague Enrico Letta in February Mr Renzi came to power with a programme of rapid economic and political reform, including tax cuts, investment in jobs and removing law-making powers from the upper house, the Senate.
Unusually, the PD leader was not a member of parliament when President Giorgio Napolitano nominated him to form a government, but the outgoing mayor of his native Florence. Mr Letta had resigned after only a year as prime minister after the PD voted in favour of an urgent change of government to push through reforms. The showdown came after Mr Renzi, who was elected the party's leader in December , called for "profound change" to get Italy "out of the quagmire".
Commonly referred to in Italy as premier, the right title of the office holder is Presidente del Consiglio dei Ministri, or just Presidente del Consiglio. The formal Italian order of precedence lists the office as being ceremonially the fourth most important Italian state office. Monti served as a European Commissioner from to , with responsibility for the Internal Market, Services, Customs and Taxation from to and then for Competition from to He has also been Rector and President of Bocconi University.
Monti was appointed a Senator for Life in the Italian Senate on 9 November , and three days later was invited by President Giorgio Napolitano to form a new technocratic government in Italy following the resignation of Silvio Berlusconi. Mario Monti was born in Varese on 19 March His father hailed from Varese though he spent much of his life in Argentina after emigrating during World War II , and his mother was born in Piacenza. Mario Monti holds a degree in economics and management from Bocconi University, Milan.
He completed graduate studies at Yale University, where he studied under James Tobin, the Nobel prize-winning economist. He taught economics at the University of Turin from to before moving to Bocconi University, where he was its Rector from to , and has been its President since Monti is a member of the Presiderium of the Friends of Europe, a leading European think tank, and was the first chairman of Bruegel, a European think tank founded in He is also a leading member of the exclusive Bilderberg Group.
Mario Monti was seen as a favorite to replace Silvio Berlusconi to lead a new unity government in Italy in order to implement reforms and austerity measures. On 16 November , Monti unveiled a technocratic cabinet, and was officially sworn in as Prime Minister of Italy. He also appointed himself as Minister of Economy and Finance. Known for his reserved character, Monti acknowledges not being especially sociable, explaining that his youth was given over to hard study, alongside spare time activities such as cycling and keeping up with world affairs by tuning in to foreign short wave radio stations.
In he began working in the area of the building contractors. Be the first Italian player in the development of residential and commercial centers Milan 2, Milan 3, Sunflower. In he founded Channel 5, the first national television network, in addition, Italy 1 and Rete 4 The commercial success of the TV allows you to develop various initiatives, insert, like all other companies within the parent holding company Fininvest, founded in With the Mondadori becomes the main Italian publisher in books and periodicals.
The Fininvest Group, with Mediolanum and Italy Program, to develop a strong presence in insurance and financial products. President since is the football team AC Milan which led to being the first club in the world for the number of international victories. On January 26, he resigned all his positions in Fininvest.
Founder and President of the political movement Forza Italy. In he participated in elections to the European Parliament shall be elected in all five boroughs Italian, but has not joined the Assembly for incompatibility with the office of President of the Council then held.
In , reelected to Parliament, V term, resigned June 10, for incompatibility with the office of President of the Council of Ministers, who served in the XIV legislature of the National Parliament. With the same movement won the parliamentary elections of 13 and 14 April In the sixteenth term becomes President of the Council of Ministers for the fourth time. Elected in the consultation, the College District No. Linked lists: Forza Italy, the National Alliance.
Linked lists: Forza Italy. Reelected in in Italy in the nineteenth Force list Campania Region 1 with , votes equal to In he engaged actively in the Student Faculty Councils movement, and was a delegate to the first National University Congress. In , as un undergraduate in Naples, he joined a group of young anti-Fascists and in he joined the Italian Communist Party, of which he was a militant and then a leading figure until the Democratic Party of the Left was established.
From the autumn of to the spring of he was a member of the Secretariat of the Italian Economic Centre for Southern Italy, chaired by Senator Paratore.
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