“a dork (coglione) but never a corrupt man”
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Gianfranco Fini
Gianfranco Fini is a retired Italian politician who served as the president of the Italian Chamber of Deputies from 2008 to 2013 and Deputy Prime Minister from 2001 to 2006. He is the former leader of the far-right Italian Social Movement, the conservative National Alliance, and the center-right Future and Freedom party. He was Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs in Silvio Berlus…
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Born 3 January 1952 · Q47583
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 2 entries
Blasting News: Gianfranco Fini ad Atreju, un ritorno simbolico che ricorda una stagione della destra
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Dilei: Gianfranco Fini, scontro a Otto e Mezzo con Lilli Gruber: “Non rispondo”. Cosa è successo
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2024· 3 entries
Sky: Gianfranco Fini a Sky TG24: "Perché rifiutare a priori l’ipotesi dello ius scholae?"
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Il Sussidiario: Ius scholae, Gianfranco Fini: “Meloni? So che non è contraria a priori”/ “Avevamo iniziato a ragionarci”
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Fanpage.it: Perché Gianfranco Fini è stato condannato per riciclaggio: “Contribuì a vendere casa di Montecarlo”
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2017· 1 entry
Blasting News: Gianfranco Fini indagato per riciclaggio
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2009· 1 entry
It emerged that as early as 1980 Almirante had identified Fini as one among a group of young Italians who were "young, non-fascist, non-nostalgic, who believe, as I do by now, in these institutions, in this Constitution
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2008· 2 entries
Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic (2008–2013).
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To an offshore company and it was leased back to the younger brother of Fini's girlfriend
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2007· 1 entry
Berlusconi proclaimed the dissolution of his Forza Italia party and the birth of a new unitary party of the centre-right, the People of Freedom
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2006· 2 entries
Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic (2006–2008).
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Fini announced the removal of the symbol of the flame and of the "M
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2005· 4 entries
Announced a positive vote (three yes, one no) on a referendum on artificial insemination aimed at removing some limits introduced by the Act n
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A congress dismantled the factions and confirmed Fini as president of the party
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Career landmark: Vice President of the Council of Ministers of Italy (2005–2006).
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Career landmark: Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs (2005–2006).
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2004· 1 entry
Career landmark: Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs (2004–2005).
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2001· 2 entries
Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic (2001–2006).
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Career landmark: Vice President of the Council of Ministers of Italy (2001–2005).
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1999· 2 entries
Career landmark: Member of the European Parliament (1999–2001).
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Fini asked for forced hospitalization of drug users, without distinction between different illegal drugs
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1996· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic (1996–2001).
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1994· 5 entries
“Fascism has a tradition of honesty, correctness and good government”
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Career landmark: Member of the European Parliament (1994–1999).
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Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic (1994–1996).
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“There are phases where freedom is not among the key values”
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For the first time in Italy's political history, an Italian government included four ministers from the MSI party, including the Deputy Prime Minister Giuseppe Tatarella, although Fini did not directly take part as a min
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1992· 6 entries
“The accession of Turkey [in the European Union] would be a sign of the full compatibility of Islam with democracy.”
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Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic (1992–1994).
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“After almost half a century, the idea of fascism is alive”
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“[On Mussolini as the greatest political leader of the century] The answer is in the things I've done in the last years. I don't think the same anymore, I would be schyzophrenic.”
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“I don't think that the United States are ready for a presidency as the one of Obama, at least because he would be the first black president.”
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“I didn't believe that Giorgia Meloni could recompose a political community that had also been human: I was wrong, she has built a small authentic masterpiece, if today the right wing is the governing right wing, it is due to that political intuition to restore political dignity to the right wing.”
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1991· 1 entry
“We are fascists, the heirs of fascism, the fascism of the year 2000”
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1989· 1 entry
Career landmark: Member of the European Parliament (1989–1992).
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1988· 1 entry
“Dear comrades, MSI claims its right to refer to fascism”
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1987· 2 entries
In September he was nominated by Almirante to be his successor as the party's secretary
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Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic (1987–1992).
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1983· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic (1983–1987).
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1977· 1 entry
Became national secretary of the Youth Front, chosen by Giorgio Almirante, secretary of the party that now called itself "MSI - Destra Nazionale"
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1968· 1 entry
When the 16-year-old Fini was involved in clashes with communist activists, among them a protest in front of a cinema against the screening of the John Wayne movie The Green Berets
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1952· 2 entries
Born 1952-01-03.
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Fini was born on 3 January 1952 in Bologna.
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1923· 1 entry
His father, Argenio "Sergio" Fini (Bologna, 1923 – Rome, 1998), was a volunteer with the Italian Social Republic, a fascist state in Northern Italy allied with Germany during 1943–45; he later declared feeling close to the centre-left Italian Democratic Socialist Party (PDSI), but withdrew from political activity after his son became involved in the Italian Social Movement (MSI).
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