Giancarlo Pagliarini

Italian politician

Giancarlo Pagliarini


Minister of the Budget
In office 10 May 1994 – 17 January 1995
Preceded by	Luigi Spaventa
Succeeded by	Rainer Masera
Member of Italian Senate
In office 23 April 1992 – 9 May 1996
Member of Italian Chamber of Deputies
In office 9 May 1996 – 27 April 2006

Personal details
Born	(1942-04-23) 23 April 1942 (age 82) Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Political party	Lega Nord (1991-2008) The Right (2008-2013) Act to Stop the Decline (2013-present)
Spouse	Sonia Bekdemiran (1980s-present)
Children	Two children
Residence(s)	Milan, Italy
Alma mater	Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

Giancarlo Pagliarini (born 23 April 1942) is an Italian politician.

Born in Milan, he was later elected to the Italian Senate for Lega Nord 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 Berlusconi I Cabinet in 1994, "President of Padania" in 1996 and floor leader of Lega Nord in the Chamber of Deputies from 1999 to 2001.

He is married to a lady of Armenian origin whose family survived the Armenian genocide, they have a son and a daughter.

Before joining 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.

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 was known as maverick politician and, prior to leaving Lega Nord, often criticized the line imposed by Umberto Bossi. Lately he dissented with the continuation of the alliance with the other House of Freedoms parties, favouring an autonomous path for the League, and flirted with the independentist wing of the party, led by Gilberto Oneto, a libertarian himself, and maintained relations with the Liberal Reformers.

On 19 January 2007 Pagliarini, who was not candidate for re-election in the 2006 general election, finally left Lega Nord^{[citation needed]}. In June he took part to the libertarian network founded by Daniele Capezzone.

On 18 January 2008 he unexpectedly joined The Right of Francesco Storace^[1] and then was candidated in Lombardy in the 2008 general election, despite declaring to be remained "leghista nell'anima e nella mente" (leaguist in the soul and the mind).^[2] He wasn't elected.

He was a candidate for mayor of Milan for local elections in 2011,^[3] but he wasn't able to enter the runoff election.

Subsequently he joined Act to Stop the Decline, a federalist and liberal party.

References

^ "エラー". Archived from the original on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 2007-06-06.
^ Giancarlo Pagliarini - www.giancarlopagliarini.it
^ "Pagliarini Sindaco di Milano" (in Italian). Legapadana.org. 2010-11-29. Archived from the original on 2011-02-16. Retrieved 2011-07-02.

External links

Official website

Italian Senate
Preceded by Title jointly held	Senator Legislatures XI, XII 1992–1996	Succeeded by Title jointly held
Italian Chamber of Deputies
Preceded by Title jointly held	Deputy Legislatures XIII, XIV 1996 – 2006	Succeeded by Title jointly held

Berlusconi I Cabinet (1994–95)

v t e Leaders of Lega Nord
Federal Secretary	Umberto Bossi (1991–2012) Roberto Maroni (2012–2013) Matteo Salvini (2013–present)
Federal President	Franco Rocchetta (1991–1994) Stefano Stefani (1995–2002) Luciano Gasperini (2002–2005) Angelo Alessandri (2005–2012) Umberto Bossi (2012–present)
Chamber of Deputies	Marco Formentini (1992–1994) Luigi Negri (1992–2001) Pierluigi Petrini (1994–1995) Vito Gnutti (1995–1996) Domenico Comino (1996–1999) Giancarlo Pagliarini (1999–2001) Alessandro Cè (2001–2005) Andrea Gibelli (2005–2006) Roberto Maroni (2006–2008) Roberto Cota (2008–2010) Marco Reguzzoni (2010–2012) Gianpaolo Dozzo (2012–2013) Giancarlo Giorgetti (2013–2014) Massimiliano Fedriga (2014–2018) Giancarlo Giorgetti (2018) Riccardo Molinari (2018–present)
Senate	Francesco Speroni (1992–1994) Francesco Tabladini (1994–1996) Francesco Speroni (1996–1999) Luciano Gasperini (1999–2000) Roberto Castelli (2000–2001) Francesco Moro (2001–2004) Ettore Pirovano (2004–2006) Roberto Castelli (2006–2008) Federico Bricolo (2008–2013) Massimo Bitonci (2013–2014) Gian Marco Centinaio (2014–2018) Massimiliano Romeo (2018–present)
European Parliament	Francesco Speroni (1989–1992) Luigi Moretti (1992–1999) Francesco Speroni (1999–2004) Mario Borghezio (2004–2009) Francesco Speroni (2009–2014) Matteo Salvini (2014–2018) Marco Zanni (2018–present)