Emanuele Filiberto, Prince of Venice and Piedmont
Emanuele Filiberto Umberto Reza Ciro René Maria di Savoia ( born June 22, 1972 in Geneva ) is the son of Victor Emmanuel and Marina Doria Ricolfi and eldest grandson of the last king of Italy Umberto II
Life
As for all the male descendants of the Royal House of Savoy to travel to Italy was forbidden for a long time. This ban was lifted by a constitutional amendment of 23 October 2002, which came on 10 November 2002 in force after Emanuele Filiberto and his father renounced all claims throne and had known a republic. Born as a Swiss citizen in Geneva Emanuele Filiberto di Savoia received on 22 November 2002 by the Italian Consulate in Geneva, the Italian passport and has since Italian - Swiss citizen. In the same year he published his memoirs Sognando l' Italia, in which he talks about his life in exile.
On September 25, 2003 married Emanuele Filiberto in Rome, the French actress Clotilde Courau, with whom he has two daughters, Vittoria di Savoia (full name Vittoria Cristina Adelaide Chiara Maria), who was born in Geneva on 28 December 2003 and Luisa di Savoia (full name Luisa Giovanna Agata Gavina Bianca Maria), which was held in Geneva on 16 August 2006 the world.
Emanuele Filiberto bears the title Prince of Piedmont and Veneto, which is not recognized according to the Italian Constitution. By 2006, he was the designated successor to his father as head of the House of Savoy. Reason for the exclusion of the succession is not befitting his father's marriage.
Since his return to Italy, Emanuele Filiberto tried with various activities, including, inter alia as an actor in commercials, marketing its own men's collection and from January 2009 put with participation in the fifth season of Unterhaltunsshow Ballando con le, the Italian version of Strictly Come Dancing as the winner of which he emerged together with Natalia Titova on 21 March 2009.
In November 2007, he and his father Victor Emmanuel of Savoy have officially announced an action for damages in the amount of 260 million euros against the Italian State and demanded the restitution of all confiscated in the founding of the Italian Republic assets. The reason given for the action for damages with the reparation for the moral wrongs that had him and his father Victor Emmanuel been done during the exile. The Italian government said in a statement that not only the Italian government was the House of Savoy owe nothing, but on the contrary, the Italian state itself, the filing of an action for damages against the House of Savoy, because of their serious responsibilities during Fascism reserving. The requirement of the remaining members of the House of Savoy distanced met with severe criticism.
Policy
The work carried out in April 2008 early parliamentary elections Italian Emanuele Filiberto went abroad constituency with its own list called Valori e Futuro ( dt values and future ) to. The list included beside him as party president for another 10 party members. Among them was also Lucio Barresi, PR officer of the casino of Campione d' Italia, who was involved to young showgirls in known as Vallettopoli in Italy extortion scandal. The strict staff of Emanuele Filiberto movement belonged to a party coordinator also Enrico Giuliano. Against this, the prosecutor's office in Rome opened an investigation for suspected tax evasion and fraud.
The movement Valori e Futuro founded by Emanuele Filiberto already came in October 2007 in the headlines, as the used by him as Vice President of Valori e Futuro and arrested with his friend Mariano Turrisi for membership to the Mafia was.
Of the 1,013,086 votes of Italians abroad worldwide valid votes received Valori e Futuro list as a last resort only 4,457, which represents a 0.44% share of the vote. Emanuele Filiberto myself here got only 1,811 votes. In Italy, Emanuele Filiberto not presented for election.
Another attempt to be elected to political office, failed at the European elections in 2009, ran for the Emanuele Filiberto for the Unione di Centro in the constituency of North - West and received 22,242 of the 9,117,021 votes cast there.
Works
- Emanuele Filiberto di Savoia: Sognando l' Italia. Gremese Editore, Rome 2002, ISBN 88-8440-190-9 ( Italian)