Gianni Alemanno

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Gianni Alemanno

Incumbent
Assumed office 
April 2008
Preceded by Walter Veltroni

In office
June 11, 2001 – May 17, 2006
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi
Preceded by Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio
Succeeded by Paolo De Castro

Born March 3, 1958 (1958-03-03) (age 50)
Bari, Italy
Nationality Italian
Political party People of Freedom
Spouse Isabella Rauti

Giovanni "Gianni" Alemanno (b. 3 March 1958 in Bari, Italy) is an Italian politician who is currently Mayor of Rome.

He joined the Italian Social Movement at a very early age and became national secretary of the youth organization of the party in 1988. After being elected regional deputy of Lazio in 1990, he was elected for the first time to the Chamber of Deputies in the 1994 general election.

In 1995, along with Francesco Storace, he founded the Social Right, which was intended to be the more right-wing, socially-oriented and socially conservative faction within National Alliance, the new party in which the Italian Social Movement was merged after repudation of extremism.

Between 2001 and 2006 Alemanno was Minister of Agriculture in Berlusconi II and III Cabinet.

After having been heavily defeated by Walter Veltroni in the 2006 mayoral election of Rome, in April 2008 he defeated Francesco Rutelli and became Mayor of the city.

Alemanno always wears a necklace with a celtic cross as a religious symbol and in memory of a friend killed by political opponents, but he rarely chooses to show it.[1]. This is somewhat controversial as a stylised celtic cross is a popular fascist symbol in Italy.

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Political offices
Preceded by
Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio
Italian Minister of Agricolture
2001–2006
Succeeded by
Paolo De Castro
Preceded by
Walter Veltroni
Mayor of Rome
2008-present
Succeeded by
Incumbent


Persondata
NAME Alemanno, Gianni
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Mayor of Rome
DATE OF BIRTH 1958-03-03
PLACE OF BIRTH Bari, Italy
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH