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Giancarlo Giorgetti

Giancarlo Giorgetti
Giorgetti in 2018
Minister of Economy and Finance
Incumbent
Assumed office 22 October 2022
Prime Minister	Giorgia Meloni
Preceded by	Daniele Franco
Minister of Economic Development
In office 13 February 2021 – 22 October 2022
Prime Minister	Mario Draghi
Preceded by	Stefano Patuanelli
Succeeded by	Adolfo Urso
Secretary of the Council of Ministers
In office 1 June 2018 – 5 September 2019
Prime Minister	Giuseppe Conte
Preceded by	Maria Elena Boschi
Succeeded by	Riccardo Fraccaro
Deputy Federal Secretary of the League
Incumbent
Assumed office 26 February 2016
Secretary	Matteo Salvini
Preceded by	Edoardo Rixi Riccardo Molinari
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
Incumbent
Assumed office 9 May 1996
Constituency	Lombardy
Mayor of Cazzago Brabbia
In office 23 April 1995 – 12 June 2004
Preceded by	Enrico Simonetta
Succeeded by	Massimo Nicora
Personal details
Born	(1966-12-16) 16 December 1966 (age 57) Cazzago Brabbia, Varese, Italy
Political party	MSI (1984–1990) League (since 1990)
Spouse	Laura Ferrari
Children	1
Education	Bocconi University
Occupation	Tax 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 has served 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 governmentofGiuseppe Conte and later Minister of Economic Development from February 2021 until October 2022, in the governmentofMario Draghi.

Early life and career[edit]

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).^[1] 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.^[2]

Political career[edit]

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,^[3] founder and federal secretary of Lega Nord from 1991 to 2012; and by The Economist as his "dauphin".^[4] In 2010, The Guardian described him as an "influential member of Berlusconi's Lega Nord party",^[5] 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.^[6]

Political views and controversies[edit]

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".^[7] 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.^[8][9]

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.^[10] 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[edit]

Election	House	Constituency	Party		Votes	Result
1996	Chamber of Deputies	Lombardy 2 – Sesto Calende		LN	29,314	Y Elected
2001	Chamber of Deputies	Lombardy 2 – Sesto Calende		LN	41,184	Y Elected
2006	Chamber of Deputies	Lombardy1		LN	–[a]	Y Elected
2008	Chamber of Deputies	Lombardy1		LN	–[a]	Y Elected
2013	Chamber of Deputies	Lombardy2		LN	–[a]	Y Elected
2018	Chamber of Deputies	Lombardy2		Lega	–[a]	Y Elected
2022	Chamber of Deputies	Lombardy 2 – Sondrio		Lega	108,138	Y Elected

First-past-the-post elections[edit]

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Media related to Giancarlo Giorgetti at Wikimedia Commons

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