Arturo Parisi

Onorevole Arturo Mario Luigi Parisi
Minister of Defence
In office 17 May 2006 – 8 May 2008
Prime Minister	Romano Prodi
Preceded by	Antonio Martino
Succeeded by	Ignazio La Russa
Personal details
Born	September 13, 1940 (1940-09-13) (age 71) San Mango Piemonte, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Political party	Democratic Party

Arturo Parisi (born 13 September 1940) is an Italian politician, leader of the Ulivist faction of the Democratic Party and four-time member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies. He was also Minister of Defence in the cabinet of Prime Minister Romano Prodi from 2006 to 2008.

Biography

Parisi was born in San Mango Piemonte, Salerno, Campania, he moved soon with his family in Sassari, Sardinia. A strong supporter of Romano Prodi, in 1995 he founded with him the Olive Tree coalition, and on 30 November 1999 he won a by-election to replace him in the Italian Chamber of Deputies.^[1] He also succeeded Prodi as president of The Democrats from 1999 to 2002, when the party was dissolved. He then became president of the Federal Assembly of the new Daisy party, and was re-elected to the Chamber in the 2001 general election.^[2]

After being re-elected Deputy in the 2006 general election,^[3] he was appointed Minister of Defence in the cabinet of Prime Minister Romano Prodi, a position he retained until 2008 when the governing Union coalition crumbled and new elections were called. Meanwhile, Parisi joined the new Democratic Party, formed in 2007 from the merger of the Daisy and the Democrats of the Left, as leader of the Ulivist faction. On April 22, 2008 he was elected Deputy for the fourth time.^[4]

After the resignation of party secretary Walter Veltroni, the Constituent Assembly of the Democratic Party convened on February 21, 2009 to elect a new leader. Parisi, Enrico Morando and Stefano Ceccanti presented a motion asking for the immediate calling of primary elections open to all members of the party. The motion was rejected, so the Assembly itself had to vote for the new secretary. Parisi ran for the post against former deputy secretary Dario Franceschini, but obtained just 92 votes out of 1,258.^[5]

References

1. ^ "Italian Chamber of Deputies – XIII Legislature". http://leg13.camera.it/cartellecomuni/leg13/Deputati/scheda_deputato/scheda.asp?id=d00643. Retrieved 2009-02-21. 
2. ^ "Italian Chamber of Deputies – XIV Legislature". http://leg14.camera.it/organiparlamentari/assemblea/contenitore_dati.asp?tipopagina=&deputato=d50471&source=%2Fdeputatism%2F240%2Fdocumentoxml%2Easp&position=Deputati%5CLa%20Scheda%20Personale&Pagina=Deputati/Composizione/01.camera/nuovacomposizione/datpersonali2.asp%3Fdeputato=d50471&nominativo=PARISI%20Arturo%20Mario%20Luigi. Retrieved 2009-02-21. 
3. ^ "Italian Chamber of Deputies – XV Legislature". http://leg15.camera.it/cartellecomuni/leg15/include/contenitore_dati.asp?tipopagina=&deputato=d50471&source=%2Fdeputatism%2F240%2Fdocumentoxml%2Easp&position=Deputati\La%20Scheda%20Personale&Pagina=Deputati/Composizione/SchedeDeputati/SchedeDeputati.asp%3Fdeputato=d50471&Vis=1&Nominativo=PARISI%20Arturo%20Mario%20Luigi. Retrieved 2009-02-21. 
4. ^ "Italian Chamber of Deputies – XV Legislature". http://www.camera.it/cartellecomuni/leg16/include/contenitore_dati.asp?tipopagina=&deputato=d50471&source=%2Fdeputatism%2F240%2Fdocumentoxml%2Easp&position=Deputati\La%20Scheda%20Personale&Pagina=Deputati/Composizione/SchedeDeputati/SchedeDeputati.asp%3Fdeputato=d50471&Nominativo=PARISI%20Arturo%20Mario%20Luigi. Retrieved 2009-02-21. 
5. ^ "Italy's Left gets new leader". France 24. February 21, 2009. http://www.france24.com/en/20090221-italys-left-gets-new-leader-. Retrieved 2009-02-21. 

External links

• (Italian) Personal website

Italian Chamber of Deputies
Preceded by Romano Prodi	Deputy for Bologna College 12 1999–2001	College abolished
Preceded by Jointly held	Deputy for Sardinia 2001 onwards	Succeeded by Jointly held
Party political offices
Preceded by Romano Prodi	Secretary of the Democrats 1999–2002	Party dissolved
New title	President of the Federal Assembly of the Daisy 2002–2006	Succeeded by Willer Bordon
Political offices
Preceded by Antonio Martino	Italian Minister of Defence 2006–2008	Succeeded by Ignazio La Russa

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Name	Parisi, Arturo
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Date of birth	1940-09-13
Place of birth	San Mango Piemonte, Italy
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