Roberto Castelli

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Senatore
  Roberto Castelli
In office
11 June 2001 – 17 May 2006
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi
Preceded by Piero Fassino
Succeeded by Clemente Mastella
Born June 12, 1946 (1946-06-12) (age 62)
Lecco, Italy
Nationality Italian
Political party Lega Nord
Religion Roman Catholic

Roberto Castelli (born 12 July 1946) is an Italian politician. He was the Minister of Justice in the Italian government of Silvio Berlusconi, is a Senator and one of the main representatives of Lega Nord, of which he is floor leader in the Senate.

[edit] Career

Born in Lecco (Lombardy), Castelli is an acoustics engineer, and has been in politics with the Northern League since 1986. In 1992, Castelli was elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies, and he was confirmed in 1994. Since 1996 he sits in Senate of Republic, and for two years (1999-2001) he was chairman of parliamentary group of the Northern League in the Senate, as he is now.

[edit] Minister of Justice

In fall 2004, he completed a highly controversial reform of the judiciary[1], but initially President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, even though he had been pressured by Castelli to do so, refused to sign bill[2]. The law was passed again in spring 2005[3].

As a minister, he refused to sign President Ciampi's decision to pardon Adriano Sofri, leading to a conflict of powers in which the President has tried to reassert its exclusive competence in the matter (as stated in article 87 of the Constitution of Italy), and the minister claimed that he had the right to object. He also refused to request the extradition of 22 alleged CIA agents from the United States who were implicated in the kidnapping and torture of Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr.

[edit] References

Italian Chamber of Deputies
Preceded by
Title jointly held		 Deputy
1986 – 1996		 Succeeded by
Title jointly held
Italian Senate
Preceded by
Title jointly held		 Senator
1996 – present		 Succeeded by
Title jointly held
Political offices
Preceded by
Piero Fassino		 Italian Minister of Justice
2001 – 2006		 Succeeded by
Clemente Mastella
Preceded by
Tommaso Casillo, Luigi Meduri
Infrastructures
Andrea Annunziata, Raffaele Gentile
Transports		 Undersecretary to the Italian Minister of Infrastructures
2008 – present
Served alongside: Bartolomeo Giachino, Mario Mantovani, Giuseppe Maria Reina		 Incumbent
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Berlusconi II Cabinet (2001 – 2005)
Berlusconi | Fini | Follini | La Loggia | Pisanu | Scajola | Frattini | Mazzella | Baccini | Stanca | Tremaglia | Prestigiacomo | Buttiglione | Bossi | Calderoli | Giovanardi | Ruggiero | Castelli | Tremonti | Siniscalco | Marzano | Moratti | Maroni | Martino | Alemanno | Lunardi | Sirchia | Urbani | Gasparri | Matteoli 
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Berlusconi III Cabinet (2005 – 2006)
Berlusconi | Fini | Tremonti | La Loggia | Caldoro | Baccini | Stanca | Tremaglia | Prestigiacomo | La Malfa | Calderoli | Giovanardi | Miccichè | Pisanu | Castelli | Siniscalco | Scajola | Moratti | Maroni | Martino | Alemanno | Matteoli | Lunardi | Storace | Buttiglione | Landolfi