Bobo Craxi

Bobo Craxi
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
30 May 2001 – 28 April 2006
ConstituencySicily 1
Personal details
Born
Vittorio Michele Craxi

(1964-08-06) 6 August 1964 (age 60)
Milan, Italy
Political partyPSI (till 1994)
SI (1994-1998)
SDI (1998-2000)
LS (2000-2001)
NPSI (2001-2006)
SI (2006-2007)
PS (2007-2009)
SU (2009-2010)
PSI (2010-2017; since 2019)
SpouseScintilla Cicconi
Children2
RelativesBettino Craxi (father)

Vittorio Michele Craxi, commonly known as Bobo Craxi (born 6 August 1964), is an Italian politician, son of the former Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi and brother of Stefania Craxi.

Biography

Formerly a prominent member of the Italian Socialist Party and Socialist League, he was a founder of the New Italian Socialist Party in 2001.

He has been elected MP at the Chamber of Deputies of Italy for the riding of Trapani in the 2001 general election in the House of Freedoms centre-right coalition, serving until 2006.

He left the NPSI in late January 2006 after the rejection, by a judicial court, of his claim of having been elected as new national Secretary.

Thus he founded a new movement, The Socialists, of which he was the leader for a period. The party was part of the centre-left coalition The Union,[1] and eventually merged into the refounded Socialist Party in 2007.[2]

In 2006-2008 he served in the Prodi government as undersecretary of Foreign Affairs, delegated to United Nations relationships.[3]

Bobo Craxi was candidate among the ranks of PSI for the Regional Council of Lazio in 2010 and for the Senate in 2013, but on both occasions he was not elected.

On 24 October 2015 he founded Socialist Area (Italian: Area Socialista), as internal faction of the Italian Socialist Party.

On the occasion of the 2022 Italian general election he was a candidate for the centre-left coalition in the single-member constituency "Sicily 1-02",[4] but he got only 15% of the votes and he was not elected.

He considers himself an atheist.[5]

References

  1. ^ "Bobo Craxi, accordo coi Ds sarà candidato nel "listone"". La Repubblica (in Italian). 2 March 2006. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
  2. ^ "Varata la Costituente socialista Boselli: "Il nuovo partito lo chiamerei Psi"". La Repubblica (in Italian). 14 July 2007. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
  3. ^ "Il governo Prodi ha giurato Nominati i sottosegretari". La Repubblica (in Italian). 18 May 2006. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
  4. ^ "Elezioni, Bobo Craxi corre per la Camera a Palermo: "Accetto la proposta del centrosinistra"" (in Italian). 21 August 2022. Retrieved 27 October 2022.
  5. ^ Giordano, Lucio (3 May 2024). "Come mio padre Bettino Craxi non credo ma ascolto Radio Maria". Dipiù (in Italian). No. 17. pp. 86–89.


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