Matteo Salvini

Matteo Salvini

Matteo Salvini (born on 9 March 1973 in Milano) is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament^[1] for North-West region with the Lega Nord from 2004 to 2006 as part of the Non-Inscrits and now as a member of the Europe of Freedom and Democracy Group.

He sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Culture and Education, and was a substitute for the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and a member of the Delegation to the EU-Chile Joint Parliamentary Committee. He stood down from the European Parliament in November 2006.

He was re-elected in 2009 as a member of the Europe of Freedom and Democracy Group. He now sits on the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection and is a member of the Delegation for Relations with India, and the Delegation for Relations with the Korean Peninsula. He is a Substitute on the Committee on International Trade and the Delegation for Relations with South Africa. ^[1]

He has been a member of Movimento Giovani Padani, Lega Nord's youth movement, and now is deputy secretary of Lega Lombarda, along with Marco Reguzzoni. At the 1997 Padanian elections he was a candidate of the list Comunisti Padani (Padanian Communists).

Education

• 1992: Secondary school-leaving certificate in classical subjects

Career

• since 1998: Lega Nord Provincial Secretary for Milan
• since 1993: Member of Milan City Council

Controversies

• June 14, 2009: during a Lega Nord meeting in Pontida, he has been filmed while singing a song with the following lyrics (bare, literal translation from Italian): "Oh what a bad smell, even the dogs run away: Neapolitans are coming! Oh cholera transporters, oh earthquake victims... you've never used soap to wash yourselves" that is a well known soccer song among the Italian hooligans but it is a clearly racist and discriminating song.

1. ^ ^{a b} "Your MEPs : Matteo SALVINI". Europa. European Parliament. http://www.europarl.europa.eu/members/public/inOut/viewOutgoing.do?language=EN&id=28404. Retrieved 5 March 2011. 

See also

• European Parliament election, 2004 (Italy)

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Your MEPs : Matteo SALVINI". Europa. European Parliament. http://www.europarl.europa.eu/members/public/inOut/viewOutgoing.do?language=EN&id=28404. Retrieved 5 March 2011. 

External links

• European Parliament biography of Matteo Salvini (incl. Speeches, Questions and Motions)

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