Stefano Stefani

Stefano Stefani ( born September 29, 1938 in Vicenza ) is an Italian politician of the Lega Nord. Stefani caught in 2003 as an Italian State Secretary for Tourism in Germany a stir when in an interview with the party newspaper, the Northern League, the Germans as " monotonous, blonde Super nationalists ", illustrated the " noisy fall on our beaches " every year. After the media devoted to the matter because of the silly season increased attention, the then Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said on vacation to Italy. Stefani, who had been married 20 years to a German himself, apologized over the Bild newspaper and handed in his resignation. The statements Stefanis loaded briefly the German -Italian relations.

2006 Stefani, who had already heard from 1999 to 2006 the Chamber of Deputies, was elected as the leading candidate for the list of the Lega Nord Veneto in the Italian Senate. From 2008 to 2012, he was again a member of the Chamber of Deputies.