Nando dalla Chiesa

Nando dalla Chiesa
Member of the Senate of the Republic
In office
29 May 2001 – 27 April 2006
ConstituencyGenoa
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
9 May 1996 – 29 May 2001
ConstituencyPaderno Dugnano
In office
23 April 1992 – 14 April 1994
ConstituencyMilan
Personal details
Born
Fernando dalla Chiesa

(1949-11-03) 3 November 1949 (age 75)
Florence, Italy
Political partyLR (1992–1994)
ID (19942000)
Dem (2000–2002)
DL (2002–2007)
PD (2007–2009)
Parent(s)Carlo Alberto dalla Chiesa
Emanuela Setti Carraro (step-mother)
RelativesRita dalla Chiesa (sister)
Alma materBocconi University
OccupationAcademic, politician, writer

Fernando dalla Chiesa (born 3 November 1949) is an Italian academic and politician, honorary president of Libera,[1] former deputy and senator.

Biography

Dalla Chiesa is the son of General Carlo Alberto dalla Chiesa, notable for campaigning against terrorism, and the brother of the TV presenter Rita dalla Chiesa and the journalist and politician Simona dalla Chiesa. His father was assassinated in 1982 together with his wife, Emanuela Setti Carraro.

Dalla Chiesa graduated in economics at the Bocconi University in Milan and became a university professor[ambiguous] of sociology of organized crime, business management and communication and sociology of the organization at the University of Milan.[2] He is also honorary president of Luigi Ciotti's Libera association.[3]

Political career

In 1992, dalla Chiesa joined Leoluca Orlando's new-born left-wing party The Network, for which he was elected at the Chamber of Deputies at the 1992 general election.[4]

In the 1993 local elections, dalla Chiesa ran for the office of mayor of Milan, supported by his party, by the Democratic Party of the Left, the Communist Refoundation Party and the Federation of the Greens. He reached the runoff, but was defeated by the Northern League candidate, Marco Formentini.[5]

Dalla Chiesa was not re-elected to the Chamber of Deputies in the 1994 general election and decided to leave The Network.[6] He returned to the Chamber of Deputies in the 1996 general election, being elected as an independent in the Federation of the Greens with the support of The Olive Tree coalition.

When in 1998 the first D'Alema cabinet was sworn in, dalla Chiesa refrained from voting for trust because the government was also supported also by Francesco Cossiga with whom dalla Chiesa had a bad relationship, since he accused the former president of Italy of raising many malevolences against his father when he was prefect in Palermo.[7]

In 2000, he became the co-ordinator in Lombardy of Arturo Parisi's The Democrats and, in the 2001 general election, he was elected to the Senate.[8] In 2002, The Democrats and the Italian People's Party merged into The Daisy.

Dalla Chiesa did not run for a parliamentary seat again in the 2006 general election, but after the win of The Union he was appointed undersecretary for universities and scientific research in the second Prodi Cabinet.[9] In 2007, dalla Chiesa was a member of the national directorate of the Democratic Party.[10]

Writing career

Dalla Chiesa has written several books and essays about politics and the fight against organized crime in Italy. Among his most known works is the 1992 book Il giudice ragazzino (The Boy Judge), a tribute essay dedicated to Rosario Livatino, a young Sicilian judge who had been murdered by the Mafia in 1990. In telling the experience and the tragic end of Livatino, dalla Chiesa reconstructs his vision of the connection between the Mafia, politics and institutions in Sicily and Italy in the late 1980s, indicating the murder of the judge as one of the highest triumphs of criminal powers.[11]

The 1994 film Law of Courage is based on dalla Chiesa's book.

Electoral history

Election House Constituency Party Votes Result
1992 Chamber of Deputies Milan–Pavia LR 36,260 checkY Elected
1994 Chamber of Deputies Milan 9 LR 33,844 ☒N Not elected
1996 Chamber of Deputies Paderno Dugnano FdV 34,717 checkY Elected
2001 Senate of the Republic Genoa–Bargagli Dem 85,135 checkY Elected

First-past-the-post elections

1994 general election (C): Milan 9
Candidate Coalition or Party Votes %
Roberto Ronchi Pole of Freedoms 43,195 47.7
Nando Dalla Chiesa Alliance of Progressives 33,844 37.4
Fabio Carlo Alexis De Fina National Alliance 7,042 7.9
Enzo Adriano Gobbi Pact for Italy 6,421 7.1
Total 90,502 100.0
1996 general election (C): Paderno Dugnano
Candidate Coalition or Party Votes %
Nando Dalla Chiesa The Olive Tree 34,717 42.3
Carlo Usiglio Pole of Freedoms 31,831 38.8
Margherita Muzzioli Lega Nord 15,488 18.9
Total 82,036 100.0
2001 general election (S): Liguria — Genoa–Bargagli
Candidate Coalition or Party Votes %
Nando Dalla Chiesa The Olive Tree 85,135 49.5
Gian Nicola Amoretti House of Freedoms 62,871 36.5
Franco Zunino Communist Refoundation Party 11,136 6.5
Giovanna Molisso Italy of Values 5,689 3.3
Bruno Fedi Bonino List–Pannella List 4,243 2.5
Others 2,962 1.7
Total 172,036 100.0

References

  1. ^ "Blog". Il Fatto Quotidiano (in Italian). Nando Dalla Chiesa. Retrieved 30 October 2018.
  2. ^ Corrado Stajano (5 March 2018). "Nando dalla Chiesa e la scuola: insegno come agisce la mafia" [Nando dalla Chiesa and the school: I teach how the mafia works]. Corriere della Sera (in Italian). Retrieved 30 October 2018.
  3. ^ "Assemblea Nazionale di Libera: Don Luigi Ciotti confermato presidente nazionale" [National Assembly of Libera: Don Luigi Ciotti confirmed national president] (in Italian). Libera. 24 June 2018. Retrieved 30 October 2018.
  4. ^ "Debutta La Rete di Orlando 'Primo obiettivo la pace'" [The Orlando Network debuts 'Peace's first objective]. La Repubblica (in Italian). 25 January 1991. Retrieved 30 October 2018.
  5. ^ "Formentini - Dalla Chiesa sarà il duello di Milano" [Formentini - Dalla Chiesa will be the duel in Milan]. La Repubblica (in Italian). 5 May 1993. Retrieved 30 October 2018.
  6. ^ "'Questa Rete è perdente...'" ['This network is a loser...']. La Repubblica (in Italian). 15 April 1994. Retrieved 30 October 2018.
  7. ^ "Cossiga statista 'eversivo' visto da Nando dalla Chiesa" [Cossiga 'subversive' statesman seen by Nando dalla Chiesa]. La Repubblica (in Italian). 13 January 2012. Retrieved 30 October 2018.
    - Nando dalla Chiesa (18 August 2010). "Non mi mancherà affatto" [I won't miss it at all] (in Italian). Retrieved 30 October 2018.
  8. ^ "Nando dalla Chiesa, sociologo: Già da un anno era in atto il salto sul carro del vincitore" [Nando dalla Chiesa, sociologist: The leap onto the winner's bandwagon had already been underway for a year]. La Repubblica (in Italian). 5 June 2001. Retrieved 30 October 2018.
  9. ^ "Il governo Prodi ha giurato. Nominati i sottosegretari" [The Prodi government sworn in. Undersecretaries appointed]. La Repubblica (in Italian). 18 May 2006. Retrieved 30 October 2018.
  10. ^ "Un partito democratico o un museo?" [A democratic party or a museum?] (in Italian). Nando dalla Chiesa. 2 April 2007. Retrieved 30 October 2018.
  11. ^ "Cosa insegna oggi il "giudice ragazzino"" [What the "boy judge" teaches today]. Linkiesta (in Italian). 21 September 2013. Retrieved 30 October 2018.