Giancarlo Giorgetti

Giancarlo Giorgetti
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Minister of Economy and Finance
Assumed office
22 October 2022
Prime MinisterGiorgia Meloni
Preceded byDaniele Franco
Minister of Economic Development
In office
13 February 2021 – 22 October 2022
Prime MinisterMario Draghi
Preceded byStefano Patuanelli
Succeeded byAdolfo Urso
Secretary of the Council of Ministers
In office
1 June 2018 – 5 September 2019
Prime MinisterGiuseppe Conte
Preceded byMaria Elena Boschi
Succeeded byRiccardo Fraccaro
Deputy Federal Secretary of the League
Assumed office
26 February 2016
SecretaryMatteo Salvini
Preceded byEdoardo Rixi
Riccardo Molinari
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
Assumed office
9 May 1996
ConstituencyLombardy
Mayor of Cazzago Brabbia
In office
23 April 1995 – 12 June 2004
Preceded byEnrico Simonetta
Succeeded byMassimo Nicora
Personal details
Born (1966-12-16) 16 December 1966 (age 56)
Cazzago Brabbia, Varese, Italy
Political partyMSI (1984–1990)
League (since 1990)
SpouseLaura Ferrari
Children1
EducationBocconi University
OccupationTax advisor

Giancarlo Giorgetti (born 16 December 1966) is an Italian politician and prominent member of the League, of which he became deputy secretary in 2016. Since October 2022, Giorgetti is serving as Minister of Economy and Finance in the government of Giorgia Meloni. Previously, he was Secretary of the Council of Ministers from June 2018 until September 2019, in the government of Giuseppe Conte and later Minister of Economic Development from February 2021 until October 2022, in the government of Mario Draghi.

Early life and career

Giorgetti was born in 1966 in Cazzago Brabbia, a small town in the Province of Varese. He later graduated in business economics at the Bocconi University, becoming a tax advisor and financial auditor.

During the university he was close to the Youth Front, the youth-wing of the nationalist Italian Social Movement (MSI). However, in the early 1990s, he joined Lega Lombarda and Lega Nord, the separatist movements founded by Umberto Bossi, and on 23 April 1995 he was elected mayor of his hometown, Cazzago Brabbia, a position that he held until 12 June 2004.

Political career

Elected to the Chamber of Deputies for the first time in 1996 Italian general election, he was re-elected in 2001, 2006, 2008, 2013 and 2018. From 2001 to 2006, he was the chairman of the Budget Committee in the Chamber. Within the party, he was national secretary of Lega Lombarda from 2002 to 2012 and has been deputy federal secretary of Lega Nord since 2016.

Giorgetti was described by The New York Times as a powerful aide to Umberto Bossi, founder and federal secretary of Lega Nord from 1991 to 2012; and by The Economist as his "dauphin". In 2010, The Guardian described him as an "influential member of Berlusconi's Lega Nord party", where Berlusconi stood erroneously for Bossi. Under Matteo Salvini, Bossi's opponent and new federal secretary of Lega Nord since 2013, Giorgetti continued to be one of the most influential members of the party.

Political views and controversies

Giorgetti is a federalist and regionalist politician who supports decentralization. Speaking at the 2018 edition of the Communion and Liberation's Rimini Meeting on 20 August 2018, he addressed the rise of populism, stating that "the Italian Parliament doesn't matter anymore because it's no longer understood by citizens, who see it as a place of political inconclusiveness". In 2006, Giorgetti found himself at the center of a controversy for having refused in 2004 a 50–100,000 euro bribe from Italian banker Gianpiero Fiorani.

Giorgetti is a vocal supporter of a first-past-the-post based electoral system and pushes for a return to the Italian electoral law of 1993 (Mattarellum), although it was repealed in favor of the Italian electoral law of 2005 (Porcellum, subsequently declared unconstitutional) with Lega Nord's support. In 2020, Giorgetti argued that Italy needs an electoral system that "makes possible to govern. Of all the electoral systems I've known, the one that worked best is Mattarellum", saying that "local mayors, entrepreneurs, professionals and people representing their own territory were brought into nationwide politics thanks to FPTP's single-member districts mechanism".[citation needed]

Electoral history

Election House Constituency Party Votes Result
1996 Chamber of Deputies Lombardy 2 – Sesto Calende LN 29,314 checkY Elected
2001 Chamber of Deputies Lombardy 2 – Sesto Calende LN 41,184 checkY Elected
2006 Chamber of Deputies Lombardy 1 LN checkY Elected
2008 Chamber of Deputies Lombardy 1 LN checkY Elected
2013 Chamber of Deputies Lombardy 2 LN checkY Elected
2018 Chamber of Deputies Lombardy 2 Lega checkY Elected
2022 Chamber of Deputies Lombardy 2 – Sondrio Lega 108,138 checkY Elected
  1. ^ a b c d Elected in a closed list proportional representation system.

First-past-the-post elections

1996 general election (C): Lombardy 2 — Sesto Calende
Candidate Coalition Votes %
Giancarlo Giorgetti Lega Nord 29,314 37.8
Renato Montalbetti The Olive Tree 27,783 30.7
Carlo Castiglioni Pole for Freedoms 22,633 29.2
Others 1,844 2.4
Total 77,574 100.0
2001 general election (C): Lombardy 2 — Sesto Calende
Candidate Coalition Votes %
Giancarlo Giorgetti House of Freedoms 41,184 54.5
Renato Montalbetti The Olive Tree 28,363 37.5
Others 6,042 8.0
Total 75,589 100.0
2022 general election (C): Lombardy 2 — Sondrio
Candidate Coalition Votes %
Giancarlo Giorgetti Centre-right 108,138 61.8
Valeria Caterina Duico Centre-left 34,596 19.8
Alessandro Stefano Bertolini Action - Italia Viva 14,949 8.5
Luca Sangalli Five Star Movement 8,535 4.9
Others 8,375 5.0
Total 174,829 100.0

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