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Oliviero Diliberto
In office
21 October 1998 – 26 April 2000
Prime Minister
Preceded by
Succeeded by
In office
15 April 1994 – 28 April 2008
Personal details
Born
13 October 1956
(age 69)
,
(1974-1991)
(1991-1998)
(1998-2014)
Profession
Academic, politician
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Oliviero Diliberto
(born 13 October 1956 in
) is an Italian
politician.
He has been leader of the
.
Early life
[
]
Oliviero Diliberto was born in a family of public servants (his father Marco
was employed as attorney in the Administration of the Region of
, his
mother Lella was a teacher). His youth is scarred by the untimely death of his
father in 1971, after which he had to be a fatherly role for his younger
siblings: his sister Ludovica, then eight years old, and his brother Alessio,
who was born just two months before.
Diliberto becomes involved with politics
in 1969 at age 13, when he was in high school. It is a time of turmoil in
Italian schools, and young Oliviero quickly rises through the ranks of the
student movement during his University studies. He eventually becomes
Secretary of the FGCI (Federation of Young Italian Communists, the youth
organisation of the
) for the province of
in 1978, the same year
of his graduation.
Fascinated by the philosophic thought of
, after graduating
from high school he traveled for
where, to support himself, he briefly
worked at the city
, preparing corpses that had to undergo
.
From 1978 to 1986 he earns scholarships to further his law studies in
and in
, then he works as researcher in the university of
, where later he will reach the post of Professor of
.
Political career
[
]
A former member of the
, Diliberto joined the
after the breakup of his former party.
First elected as MP in 1994 for the Communist Refoundation Party, Diliberto
left his party in 1998 in contrast with the leadership's line about a
in which
was defeated. So Diliberto, together
with
and others, founded the Party of Italian Communists, of
which he became the secretary. Diliberto then served as Minister
of Justice in the first government of
, becoming
one of the only two party members which were part of that
government. He maintained the position until 2000, leaving
voluntarily in the reshuffle, in order to concentrate on the
party.
On taking office as Minister of Justice, he declared to the press
his pride in being
"The second Communist appointed as Minister of
Justice after
"
, and made a point of having the
same desk previously used by the postwar Communist leader
restored and placed in his office at the Ministry.
In November 2004 he was widely criticized for meeting with the
leader of
, Sheik
, during a visit to
. This prompted a protest note to the Italian Government
from the Israeli Ambassador in Rome.
Before the
held in Italy (and won by
the centre-left coalition), he declared he would not serve as
minister in case of a
win, and instead he would
maintain his place as party leader, and so he has.
In May 2006 he was elected to the City Council of
. He is
currently professor of
at the Faculty of Law of the
"
"
University of Rome.
Before the
(caused by the fall
of the
), Diliberto refused candidacy to the
in the
constituency for the left-wing
alliance
, which his party was
participating to, on grounds of giving a chance to be elected to
a junior party fellow - a steel worker in the local
steelworks, where a fire on 6 December 2007 had killed seven
colleagues.
After the disastrous results of both the 2008 general elections
and of the 2009 European election, where the Italian left-wing
parties failed to reach the minimum
, Diliberto has been
confirmed as party secretary, with a mandate to pursue unity of
the left wing parties.
Family
[
]
Oliviero Diliberto has been married twice: in 1985 he married Ms.
Delia Cardia, from which he separated after some years. He is
currently married (since 1997) to Ms. Gabriella Serrenti with
whom he met in 1978 at the university where he was assistant
lecturer.
Electoral history
[
]
Elections
House
Constituency
Party
Votes
Result
Chamber of Deputies
28 170
Elected
Chamber of Deputies
54 368
Elected
Chamber of Deputies
61 645
Elected
Chamber of Deputies
-
Elected
Senate
-
Not elected
References
[
]
Dunphy, Richard (2004).
. Manchester University Press. pp. 90–.
. Retrieved
17 May
2011
.
Elected in a
proportional representation system.
Political offices
Preceded by
1998-2000
Succeeded by
Assembly seats
Preceded by
Title jointly held
Legislatures
XII, XIII, XIV, XV
1994 - present
Incumbent
Party political offices
Preceded by
2000 - present
Incumbent
(1998–1999)
(1999–2000)
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National
Academics
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