Alfredo Biondi

Alfredo Biondi
Alfredo Biondi
Minister of Justice
	In office; 10 May 1994 – 17 January 1995
Prime Minister	Silvio Berlusconi
Preceded by	Giovanni Conso
Succeeded by	Filippo Mancuso
Minister of the Environment
	In office; 4 August 1983 – 30 July 1984
Prime Minister	Bettino Craxi
Preceded by	Enstablished office
Succeeded by	Valerio Zanone
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
	In office; 5 June 1968 – 24 May 1972
	In office; 20 June 1979 – 27 April 2006
Member of the Senate
	In office; 27 April 2006 – 28 April 2008
Personal details
Born	29 June 1928; Pisa, Italy
Died	24 June 2020 (aged 91); Genoa, Italy
Political party	PLI (before 1994); FI (1994–2009); PdL (2009–2011); PLI (2011–2014); The Liberals (from 2014)
Alma mater	University of Pisa

Alfredo Biondi (29 June 1928 – 24 June 2020) was an Italian politician and lawyer. In 1994 he served as Minister of Justice of the Italian Republic during the first cabinet chaired by Silvio Berlusconi.^[2]

Biography

Born in Pisa, Biondi was Secretary of the Italian Liberal Party (PLI) from 1985 to 1986, and later its president. He was a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies from June 1968 to May 1972, and then from June 1983 to April 2006. He was a Senator from April 2006 to April 2008.

In 1993, together with the last PLI leader, Raffaele Costa, Biondi founded the Union of the Centre, a small faction of the new Forza Italia (FI) party. He served as Minister of Justice for a period of eight months (having previously served also as Ecology Minister in the 1980s).^[3] Biondi was appointed President of Forza Italia's National Council in 2004.^[3]

Following the dissolution of Forza Italia in 2009, Biondi remained in its successor organisation, the People of Freedom (PdL), for a further two years before leaving to join the refounded Italian Liberal Party. In 2014, Biondi was among a group of disaffected members who broke from that party to form The Liberals (I Liberali).^{[citation needed]}

He died on 24 June 2020 in Genoa.^[4]

Honour

Italy: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (14 october 2011)^[5]

References

^ Alfredo Biondi's profile at the Italian Senate (in Italian)
^ Gumbel, Andrew (4 February 1995). "Ex-minister falls foul of TV trick". London: Independent. Archived from the original on 6 November 2012. Retrieved 11 February 2010.
^ ^a ^b "Hon. Alfredo Biondi turned 80". Pro-Deo State University. Retrieved 11 February 2010.
^ "E' morto Alfredo Biondi". Genova 3000 (in Italian). 24 June 2020.
^ "Le onorificenze della Repubblica Italiana". www.quirinale.it. Retrieved 24 October 2022.

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[Senate-1] Alfredo Biondi's profile at the Italian Senate (in Italian)

[2] Gumbel, Andrew (4 February 1995). "Ex-minister falls foul of TV trick". London: Independent. Archived from the original on 6 November 2012. Retrieved 11 February 2010.

[prodeo-3] "Hon. Alfredo Biondi turned 80". Pro-Deo State University. Retrieved 11 February 2010.

[4] "E' morto Alfredo Biondi". Genova 3000 (in Italian). 24 June 2020.

[5] "Le onorificenze della Repubblica Italiana". www.quirinale.it. Retrieved 24 October 2022.

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