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Antonio Razzi
Member of the Senate
Assumed office
15 March 2013
ConstituencyAbruzzo
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
28 April 2006 – 14 March 2013
ConstituencyEurope
Personal details
Born (1948-02-22) 22 February 1948 (age 76)
Chieti, Italy
Political partyFI (2013–present)
PdL (2011–2013)
IdV (2006–2010)

Antonio Razzi (born 22 February 1948) is an Italian politician, a member of the Italian Senate for the centre-right party Forza Italia.[1]

Razzi became quite famous in 2011, when he left the opposition party Italy of Values to support the government Silvio Berlusconi.[2] Moreover, he is known for his controversial positions regarding Kim Jong-un's North Korea and Bashar al-Assad's Syria.[3][4]

Biography

Antonio Razzi was born near Chieti, Abruzzo, in 1948; but during 1960s he emigrated in Emmen, Switzerland, working as textile worker.

In 2006 was elected in the Chamber of Deputies for the centrist populist party Italy of Values, led by the former magistrate Antonio Di Pietro. He was re-elected in the snap election held in 2008.

In 2011 Razzi left IdV, which was probably the most anti-Berlusconi party in the Italian Parliament, to join People and Territory, a centre-right parliamentary group which supported the government of Silvio Berlusconi.[5]

In 2013 he was elected in the Italian Senate as a member of The People of Freedom.[6]

January 23rd, 2018 the Party Forza Italia decided to don't renew his candidature.Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page). moreover he always compared North Korea to Switzerland.[7]

Senator Razzi denied the existence of concentration camps in North Korea, in fact he claimed that they are only huge tomato greenhouses.[8]

During an interview he added that Kim Jong-un and his generals are "wonderful people" who do not want to attack neither South Korea nor the United States and that their nuclear weapons had only a defensive purpose.[9]

Syria

Razzi also visited Damascus in 2017, where he met the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. He stated that Assad is not a dictator but a democratic leader and he had never killed Syrian people but only terrorists.[10] Razzi added that while they were talking about Berlusconi, Assad said that he was a great leader, and that along with Vladimir Putin and Muammar Gaddafi, they were changing the world in better.[11]

Awards and honours

5th Class / Knight: Cavaliere Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana: 1994

References

  1. ^ Scheda di attività di Antonio Razzi
  2. ^ Vitalizi, quando nel 2011 Razzi disse a Barbato: “Ti manca meno di un anno. Fatti li cazzi tua e andiamo avanti”
  3. ^ Razzi: «Lager in Corea del Nord? Sono serre per pomodori»
  4. ^ Siria, Antonio Razzi e il selfie con Assad: il senatore a Damasco con una commissione russo-europea
  5. ^ Rissa sui «transfughi». Razzi lascia l'Idv
  6. ^ Le urne bocciano senza appello Fini. Fuori dal Parlamento Di Pietro e Ingroia
  7. ^ L'intervista, Antonio Razzi: "La mia Corea del Nord pulita e tifosa di calcio"
  8. ^ Razzi: "Lager in Corea? Tutte cazzate, sono serre di pomodori. I campi di rieducazione sono giusti, ci vorrebbero anche in Italia"
  9. ^ Razzi vola a Pyongyang e tratta per la pace
  10. ^ Antonio Razzi e il suo selfie vergognoso con Bashar al Assad
  11. ^ Razzi: “Selfie con Assad? Me lo ha chiesto lui. A me è sembrato Fabio Fazio e gli ho dato la mano”
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