Piero Marrazzo
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Piero Marrazzo (born in Rome on July 29, 1958) is the current President of Lazio, one of the twenty regions of Italy.
Piero Marrazzo is the son of Giuseppe Marrazzo (a field journalist noted for his investigations on mafia) and Italian-American Luigia Spina. He was a political activist during his youth, leading towards reformistic socialism, and obtained a degree in jurisprudence. He went on to become a prominent TV journalist, working for twenty years for RAI, on programmes such as Tg2, heading the Tuscany journalistic department of RAI, working with Giovanni Minoli (on programmes such as "Cronaca in Diretta", "Drugstories", and "Format"), and finally becoming the anchorman for eight consectuve years of "Mi Manda Rai Tre", for which he is most remembered. In November 2004 he left his job to run for presidency of Lazio as the candidate of left-centrist coalition L'Unione; he won the April 2005 regional elections attracting 50.7% of votes.
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- Personal profile on the official website of the Regione Lazio (Italian version, English version).
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