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Guido Crosetto
Minister of Defence
Incumbent
Assumed office
22 October 2022
Prime MinisterGiorgia Meloni
Preceded byLorenzo Guerini
President of Brothers of Italy
In office
21 December 2012 – 4 April 2013
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded byIgnazio La Russa
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
23 March 2018 – 13 March 2019[a]
ConstituencyLombardy[1]
In office
30 May 2001 – 14 March 2013
ConstituencyPiedmont
Mayor of Marene
In office
28 May 1990 – 14 June 2004
Preceded byPaolo Lampertico
Succeeded byEdoardo Giuseppe Pelissero
Personal details
Born (1963-09-19) 19 September 1963 (age 61)
Cuneo, Italy
Political partyDC (1985–1994)
FI (1994–2009)
PdL (2009–2012)
FdI (since 2012)
ProfessionBusinessman, politician

Guido Crosetto (born 19 September 1963) is an Italian businessman and politician, who co-founded the Brothers of Italy (FdI) party, and has been serving as Minister of Defence since 22 October 2022.[2][3]

Crosetto was president of FdI from 21 December 2012 to 4 April 2013.[4]

Early life

Guido Crosetto comes from a family of entrepreneurs from Cuneo,[5] in Piedmont. Due to his father's death, Crosetto could not finish his studies in economics at the University of Turin, which he had been attending. While at the university, he became a member of the youth wing of Christian Democracy (DC) and in 1988, at age 25, he became the economic advisor to Prime Minister Giovanni Goria.

Political career

From 28 May 1990 to 14 June 2004, Crosetto was the three-term mayor of Marene, a small village near Cuneo where he lives.[b][6] In the 2001 Italian general election, he became a deputy of Forza Italia (FI), the centre-right political movement member of European People's Party (EPP) which was founded by the billionaire and media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi. Crosetto was re-elected in 2006 as deputy and in 2008 he joined the Berlusconi's new The People of Freedom (PdL) party. He was elected again at Montecitorio (Italy's Chamber of Deputies. Crosetto served as Undersecretary at the Italian Minister of Defense in the Berlusconi IV Cabinet (2008–2011). After Berlusconi's resignation in November 2011, Crosetto criticized the formation of the new cabinet led by pro-austerity economist Mario Monti. In December 2012, he founded Brothers of Italy (FdI), a national conservative party in opposition to the PdL and to the pro-austerity Monti, with Giorgia Meloni and Ignazio La Russa,[7][8]

As a candidate for Senate, Crosetto failed the 2013 Italian general election because FdI votes did not exceed a threshold set at 3% by the electoral law known as Porcellum. It was during 2013 that Crosetto was hospitalized after smoking 150 cigarettes in a single day. [9]

Crosetto ran in the 2014 European Parliament election in Italy, but was not elected because FdI votes did not exceed a threshold set at 4% by the electoral law of 2009 for European elections in Italy. On the same day of the European election, Crosetto ran in the 2014 Piedmontese regional election as gubernatiorial candidate for FdI and ran alone outside the centre-right coalition led by Berlusconi's FI. In this election, Salvini's Lega Nord was allied with FI against FdI; after Crosetto's retirement from politics in September 2014, Salvini became closer to Giorgia Meloni's FdI because without Crosetto the party moved to the right-wing, while the FI (member of the EPP) moved toward the center.

Crosetto returned to politics when the deputy Daniela Santanchè, a right-wing businesswoman and former member of PdL and FI in Lombardy, joined Meloni's FdI in December 2017. Crosetto and Santanchè in FdI represented the small and medium-sized enterprises of Northern Italy in the 2018 Italian general election and they became respectively members of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate of the Republic because the party's electoral support increased, surpassing 4.3% of votes at the national level, for the first time. Crosetto resigned on 13 March 2019,[1] and after two days his former seat was assigned to the first candidate on the list of non-elected at the 2018 general election, the businesswoman and FdI member Lucrezia Mantovani.[10] In April and May 2019, as non-candidate spokesman of the party, Crosetto helped Meloni in the campaign for the 2019 European Parliament election in Italy and FdI (which became a member of European Conservatives and Reformists) increased its electoral support, surpassing 6.4% of national level votes, for the first time.

Minister of the Defence

On 22 October 2022, Crosetto was appointed Minister of Defence in the government of Giorgia Meloni.

Notes

  1. ^ Resigned from office
  2. ^ In the comune of Marene, the office of Mayor before 1995 was elected by the Comunal Council (indirect election) without term limits. After 1995, the Mayor is elected by citizen (direct election) with term limits (only two consecutive terms). Before 1995, the term of the Mayor of Marene was five years, and from 1995 to 1999 the term was only four years; after 1999, the term is five years.

References

  1. ^ a b "XVIII Legislatura - Deputati e Organi - Scheda deputato - CROSETTO Guido".
  2. ^ "Guido Crosetto, chi è il nuovo ministro della Difesa del governo Meloni". Skytg24. Retrieved 22 October 2022.
  3. ^ "Crosetto-Meloni, nasce la destra antiMonti". Corriere della Sera. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
  4. ^ "Ignazio la Russa - Sito ufficiale di Fratelli d'Italia - Alleanza Nazionale". fratelli-italia.it. Archived from the original on 10 July 2014. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
  5. ^ "XVIII Legislatura - Deputati e Organi - Scheda deputato - CROSETTO Guido".
  6. ^ "Anagrafe degli amministratori locali e regionali". 23 February 2017.
  7. ^ "Crosetto e Meloni dal PDL a 'Fratelli d'Italia':trattativa con la Russa su nome e simbolo". 20 December 2012.
  8. ^ "Meloni e Crosetto dicono addio al Cavaliere". Corriere della Sera. Retrieved 21 December 2012.
  9. ^ Romania Posts English 2022.
  10. ^ "XVIII Legislatura - Deputati e Organi - Scheda deputato - MANTOVANI Lucrezia Maria Benedetta".

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  1. ^ Romania Posts English 2022.
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