Raffaele Lombardo Prime minister

Raffaele Lombardo (born on 29 October 1950 in Catania) is an Italian politician, former President of Sicily and former Member of the European Parliament for Islands with the Movement for the Autonomies and has sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs.In 2005 he split off from the Union of Christian and Centre Democrats (UDC) to form the autonomist Sicilian-based Movement for Autonomy, after he had accused the UDC leadership of being too centralist. On 2008 he was elected as President of Sicily, obtaining over 65% of the regional votes and defeating Anna Finocchiaro of the Democratic Party. On 31 July 2012 he resigned from the presidency because he was under investigation for external contribution with mafia and pork-barrelling, as it appears that he had relationships with some figure of Cosa Nostra. Nevertheless in the following elections he managed to have his 23 years old son Toti elected in the Sicilian Regional Assembly.

Personal facts

Raffaele Lombardo
Birth dateOctober 29, 1950
Birth place
Italy , Catania

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Politician

party
Movement for Autonomies
successor
Rosario Crocetta

Prime minister

FromApril 28, 2008
ToNovember 09, 2012

Raffaele Lombardo on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://www.europarl.eu.int/members/expert/groupAndCountry/view.do?language=EN&id=4472
  2. http://www.raffaelelombardo.it