Claudio Scajola

Claudio Scajola
Minister of Productive Activities
In office 8 May 2008 – 4 May 2010
Prime Minister	Silvio Berlusconi
Preceded by	Pier Luigi Bersani
Succeeded by	Silvio Berlusconi (ad interim)
Personal details
Born	15 January 1948 (1948-01-15) (age 63) Imperia
Nationality	Italian
Political party	The People of Freedom
Alma mater	University of Genoa

Claudio Scajola (born 15 January 1948 in Imperia) is an Italian politician.

Career

A long-time Christian Democrat, he was mayor of Imperia in the Eighties, as his father and his brother had been. When Christian Democracy disbanded, he joined Forza Italia in 1995. He was then elected deputy in 1996 and was national coordinator of the party from 1996 to 2001 (and again in 2003). Minister Scajola has been a strong advocate for the Italian re-entry into commercial use of Nuclear power for the generation of electricity.

He was Minister of the Interior from 2001 to 2002 and later Minister of Productive Activities, under Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. In 2006 he was elected President of committee for control on Secret Service of Italian Parliament.

He has been nicknamed SkyOla because allegedly has been using Alitalia airplanes for private use. An unnecessary air route has been created from Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport to Villanova d'Albenga International Airport which he uses regularly for traveling from and to his parliamentary job, rarely it is used by other passengers.^[1] This scandal was exposed in 2008 by the RAI television program AnnoZero.

After the elections of 2008, Scajola was the minister of economic development.

In April 2010 Italian newspapers wrote that Scajola, in July 2004, reportedly used €1,100,000 in slush funds to buy a flat in Rome near the Colosseum At least €900,000 of those funds where reportedly traced as coming from Diego Anemone, a real estate developer under accusation of public servants bribing.^[2][3] In May 2010, Scajola resigned from his position as minister.

References

1. ^ Sergio Rizzo, Le doppie dimissioni del ministro di sangue dc, "Corriere della sera", 2010-05-10.
2. ^ "Scajola, le carte che accusano", La Repubblica, April 30, 2010
3. ^ "Scajola, le nuove accuse", Corriere della Sera, April 30, 2010

Notable statements

On June 2002 Scajola is in Cyprus talking to journalists and say: "Marco Biagi was only a jerk, only thinking about the renewal of his contract". Marco Biagi was killed by terrorists on March 2002 and Scajola was home minister. Scajola had to resign because of this sentence on 4 July 2002. Despite this, Berlusconi continued to consider him as one of the good ones.

External links

• Official Site (in Italian)
• Files about his parliamentary activities (in Italian): XIII, XIV, XV legislature

Italian Chamber of Deputies
Preceded by Title jointly held	Deputy since 1996 Legislatures: XIII, XIV, XV, XVI	Incumbent
Political offices
Preceded by Enzo Bianco	Minister of the Interior 2001–2002	Succeeded by Giuseppe Pisanu
Preceded by Giuseppe Pisanu	Minister of Platform Accomplishment 2003–2005	Succeeded by Stefano Caldoro
Preceded by Antonio Marzano	Minister of Productive Activities 2005–2006	Succeeded by Pierluigi Bersani as Minister of Economic Development
Preceded by Enzo Bianco	President of COPACO 2006–2008	Succeeded by Francesco Rutelli
Preceded by Pierluigi Bersani as Minister of Economic Development	Minister of Productive Activities 2008-2010
Party political offices
Preceded by Cesare Previti	National Coordinator of Forza Italia 1996–2001	Succeeded by Roberto Antonione
Preceded by Roberto Antonione	National Coordinator of Forza Italia 2003	Succeeded by Sandro Bondi
New title	President of the President's Committee of Forza Italia since 2004	Incumbent

Persondata
Name	Scajola, Claudio
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	15 January 1948
Place of birth	Imperia
Date of death
Place of death