Giancarlo Pagliarini

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Giancarlo Pagliarini (Milan, April 23, 1942) is an Italian politician. He is a member of the Lega Nord.

He was elected to the Italian Senate in 1992 and re-elected in 1994, then elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1996 and in 2001. He was minister of the Budget in Silvio Berlusconi's first government in 1994 and the League's Group Chairman in the Chamber of Deputies from 1999 to 2001.

Pagliarini is a moderate, sometimes dissenting with the party's social-conservative agenda, a libertarian, especially on economic issues, and a prominent supporter of fiscal federalism and fiscal conservatism.

He is a maverick politician and often criticizes the line imposed by Umberto Bossi and his fellows, although he remains a staunch member of the League. Lately he dissented with the continuation of the alliance with the other House of Freedoms parties, favouring an automous path for the League, and flirted with the independentist wing of the party, led by Gilberto Oneto, a libertarian himself, and maintains relations with the Liberal Reformers.

Before joinig the League, Pagliarini worked as accountant and was close to the Radical Party, for its battle in favour of divorce. Anyway he never joined that party, being only a voter, and so he made his first political experience in the League.