Italian politician (born 1975)
Giovanni Donzelli (born 28 November 1975) is an Italian politician of Brothers of Italy serving as member of the Chamber of Deputies. He was first elected in the 2018 general election and was re-elected in 2022.[1]
Career
Donzelli was born in Florence in 1975.[2] His parents were left-wing and his father was a member of the Italian Socialist Party.[3] In his youth he was influenced by the massacres committed by the Mafia and the Mani pulite scandal,[3] as well as the funerals of Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino.[4] At the age of 19 in 1994, he joined the Italian Social Movement's National Action University Front while studying literature at the University of Florence, and later switched to the faculty of agriculture.[2] He was later a member of Youth Action, where he was part of the Protagonist Right faction,[3] and in 1997 he was elected to the university's students' representative council.[2]
In 1999, Donzelli met Giorgia Meloni and Francesco Lollobrigida for the first time, while distributing leaflets outside a high school in Florence.[3] He met his wife on 11 May 2003, when he stood in for Meloni at a debate in Abruzzo.[3] At Youth Action's congress in Viterbo in 2004, he was a leading supporter of Meloni's leadership bid against Carlo Fidanza, who was supported by Gianfranco Fini and Gianni Alemanno.[5] In the 2004 local elections, Donzelli was elected city councillor of Florence for the National Alliance.[2] In 2005, he was elected president of the party's university wing University Action.[6] He was re-elected as city councillor of Florence in 2009, representing The People of Freedom, and in the 2010 Tuscan regional election he was elected to the Regional Council of Tuscany.[2] In 2012 he resigned as president of University Action, and appointed Andrea Volpi as coordinator pro tempore.[7]
In 2012, Donzelli was one of the founders of Brothers of Italy.[2][3] He was the lead candidate of the party in the 2015 Tuscan regional election,[8] and was re-elected to the regional council.[9] He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in the 2018 general election, and was a member of the constitutional affairs committee, the EU affairs committee and the inquiry committee on Il Forteto.[10] He was re-elected in the 2022 general election, and became secretary of the chamber, vice president of COPASIR, organizational manager of Brothers of Italy, leader of the party in Rome, and a speculated candidate for the post of Minister for Parliamentary Relations.[5]
References
- ^ "Chi è Giovanni Donzelli, probabile ministro ai Rapporti col parlamento". Domani (in Italian). 21 October 2022.
- ^ a b c d e f "Giovanni Donzelli, chi è: origini, età, curriculum, carriera, moglie e figli". Il Giornale d'Italia (in Italian). 1 February 2023.
- ^ a b c d e f "Donzelli, braccio destro di Meloni: «La sera mangio a casa, l'unico modo per non farsi risucchiare da Roma»". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). 10 December 2022.
- ^ "I 10 anni di FdI, Donzelli: «Atreju? Noi cresciuti senza rottamazioni, e raccontiamo i prossimi decenni»". Secolo d'Italia (in Italian). 14 December 2022.
- ^ a b "L'ascesa del "Pipistrello" Donzelli, dalla Toscana rossa al cerchio magico di FdI". la Repubblica (in Italian). 31 January 2023.
- ^ "Frignano: Luigi de Gennaro, dirigente Azione universitaria". Informazione Campania (in Italian). 15 September 2005. Archived from the original on 2 October 2013.
- ^ "Chi siamo" (in Italian). University Action Rome.
- ^ ""Il Pd fa campagna coi soldi del Comune": Donzelli attacca e scatena un vespaio". FirenzeToday (in Italian). 22 May 2015.
- ^ "Chi è Giovanni Donzelli, il "Monaco di Destra" che coordinerà Fratelli d'Italia con Meloni premier". Il Riformista (in Italian). 26 October 2022.
- ^ "Donzelli Giovanni – FdI" (in Italian). Chamber of Deputies. 2018.
