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Gianfranco Fini (born January 3, 1952) is an Italian politician, President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies and current leader of National Alliance, former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs in the government of Silvio Berlusconi, from 2001 to 2006.
[edit] Early yearsFini was born in Bologna, and attended Istituto Laura Bassi in the same city as a child. Fini recounts first gaining an interest in politics at sixteen when he saw the John Wayne film The Green Berets. Fini went on to study at La Sapienza, where he received a degree in psychology. [edit] Political lifeFini was first elected as a representative to the Chamber of Deputies on June 26, 1983 as a member of the rightist Italian Social Movement. He would later serve as the party's national secretary from December 1987 to January 1990 and again from July 1991 to January 1995. During his time as as national secretary, he famously established the MSI as distinctly pro-fascist, with a number of such famous polemical statements, including: "Dear comrades, MSI claims its right to refer to fascism" (1988), "We are fascists, the heirs of fascism, the fascism of the year 2000" (1991), "After almost half a century, fascism is ideally alive" (1992), "There are phases where freedom is not among the key values" (1994), " Mussolini was the greatest Italian statesman of the twentieth century” , “Fascism has a tradition of honesty, correctness and good government” (1994).[1] . Towards the end of the 1990s he gradually began to move the ISM away from its neo-fascist ideology to a conservative political agenda. Some members left, but most remained, and in 1994, Fini merged the MSI-DN with conservative elements of the disbanded Christian Democrats to form National Alliance. In January 1995, at a National Alliance conference in Fiuggi he was officially elected president of the newly-formed party, a position he has held since. The conference became known as "la svolta di Fiuggi" (the turning point at Fiuggi) in Italian political parlance. Fini and his party have been part of Berlusconi's right-wing House of Freedoms coalition which won the 1994 and 2001 parliamentary election. Fini became deputy prime minister in 2001 and foreign minister in November 2004. From February 2002 to 2006, he represented the Italian Government at the European Convention. Following the April 2008 general election, Fini was elected President of the Chamber of Deputies on April 30, 2008 on the fourth ballot, receiving 355 votes. [edit] Controversies
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