Roberto Formigoni

Roberto Formigoni ( born March 31, 1947 in Lecco) is an Italian politician and senator. He was 1995-2013 President of the Lombardy Region. Berlusconi's Forza Italia He belonged to ( Popolo della Libertà 2008-2013 ). Then he joined the Nuovo Centrodestra.

Life

Formigoni studied philosophy and economics in Milan and Paris. Politically active since 1973, he was in 1984 as a deputy of the Christian Democracy (DC) elected to the European Parliament, its vice- president, he was after his reelection in 1989. To the Italian Parliament, he moved in 1987 a. From 1993 to 1994 he held the post of Secretary of State in the Ministry of Environment.

After the dissolution of DC, Formigoni graduated in 1994 at the Italian People's Party (PPI ). In June 1995 he was elected president of the Lombardy regional government with the support of the center-right Alliance Polo per le Libertà. In his first term, he took special care of the health of the region and opened it to private providers of health services. On July 23, 1995, he joined the Cristiani Democratici Uniti (CDU ), but left the party in 1998 and became a member of Forza Italia.

In 2000, the voters confirmed him for the first time in regional elections by direct election of the president with 62.5 percent of the vote. In his second term, the focus was on environmental policy, inter alia, the transport, the reform of regional administration and the branch of the Milan Trade Fair.

In April 2005, Roberto Formigoni was re-elected for a third, in March 2010 for a fourth term. Against the backdrop of various scandals and coalition squabbles Formigoni ended his tenure prematurely as President of the Lombardy region and a candidate in the parliamentary elections in Italy in 2013, where he entered the Senate, thanks to a safe list place. He stands there in front of the Agriculture Committee. In September 2013 he turned against Berlusconi's attempt to derail the Cabinet Letta by a vote of no confidence.