Publio Fiori

Publio Fiori (born 25 March 1938) is an Italian politician. He was born in Rome and graduated in law. He became a member of Christian Democracy, to which he belonged for much of his political career.

In 1977, a commando of Brigate Rosse (communist terrorists) shot him in the legs and thorax. Fiori is often included in the list of those belonging to Propaganda Due (P2),[1] a Masonic lodge operating illegally (in contravention of the Italian constitution banning secret lodges, and membership of government officials in secret membership organizations) from 1976 to 1981. In 2001, however, the Court of Rome ruled out his membership of P2.[2]

On 1 July 1992, he became undersecretary at the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications in the Giuliano Amato cabinet, while on 6 May 1993, he was appointed as undersecretary at the Ministry of Public Health. When in 1993 the Christian Democracy, then being wiped out by the Tangentopoli corruption scandal, opened an alliance with the post-communist Democratic Party of the Left, Fiori, traditionally tied to the right-wing of DC, abandoned the party.

In 1995, he was one of the founders of the National Alliance (AN), collecting most of the members of the former post-fascist Italian Social Movement. He was Minister of Transportations in the first Silvio Berlusconi cabinet. Fiori abandoned AN in 2005, dissenting with some lay-oriented moves of secretary Gianfranco Fini, and moved to Christian Democracy for Autonomies, of which he was named president. In July 2006, he was expelled by this movement with accusations of having organized an illegal national congress.

On 1 October 2006, Fiori founded with Clelio Darida the Christian Democratic Refoundation party, of which he was appointed national secretary. On 23 March 2010, Fiori formed an alliance with Francesco Rutelli's Alliance for Italy.[3]

References

  1. ↑ (in Italian) La lobby di Publio nel Pianeta ppss, La Repubblica, 27 October 1994
  2. ↑ (in Italian) P2: la controstoria, by Massimo Teodori, Archivio Partito radicale, 1 December 1985
  3. ↑ Rutelli si allea con Publio Fiori
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.