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Italo Bocchino

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Italo Bocchino
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
9 May 1996 – 14 March 2013
Personal details
Born
Italo Bocchino

(1967-07-06) 6 July 1967 (age 57)
Naples, Italy
Political partyMSI (until 1995)
AN (1995–2009)
PdL (2009–2010)
FLI (2010–2013)
Height1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
SpouseGabriella Buontempo
Alma materUniversity of Naples Federico II
ProfessionPolitician, journalist

Italo Bocchino (born 6 July 1967) is an Italian politician and journalist.

Biography

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Bocchino was born in Naples, and in his youth, he was a member of the Italian Social Movement (a post-fascist formation) and worked as a spokesman for the member of parliament Giuseppe Tatarella, and subsequently as a journalist for Il Secolo d'Italia.

In 1996, 2001 and 2006 he was elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies for National Alliance, the party founded by Gianfranco Fini to replace MSI. In 2005 he was the centre-right candidate for the presidency of the Campania region, but was defeated by Antonio Bassolino. In 2007 he founded Con, a conservative magazine.

Despite having been elected to the Italian Parliament into The People of Freedom lists in 2008, Bocchino in 2010 followed Gianfranco Fini to found Future and Freedom, a centre-right party which aims to counter Silvio Berlusconi's predominance in the Italian right area. Within the party, he is the founder of the Generation Italy movement.

Sources

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  • Bocchino, Italo; Orazio Abbamonte (2006). L'esperienza della politica. Un dialogo. ISBN 88-498-1344-9.
Italian Chamber of Deputies
Preceded by
Title jointly held
Member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies
Legislatures
XIII, XIV, XV, XVI

1996 – 2013
Succeeded by
Title jointly held
Party political offices
New political party Chamber of Deputies Group Leader of Future and Freedom
2010–2011
Succeeded by
Vice President of Future and Freedom
2011–2013
Party dissolved