Luciano D'Alfonso (born 13 December 1965) is an Italian politician. He was the mayor of

Pescara Pescara (; nap, label= Abruzzese, Pescàrë; nap, label= Pescarese, Piscàrë) is the capital city of the Province of Pescara, in the Abruzzo region of Italy. It is the most populated city in Abruzzo, with 119,217 (2018) residents (and approxim ...

from 2003 to 2009. He has served as the president of Abruzzo since 2014.

Biography

D'Alfonso graduated in political sciences, in law and in administration sciences at the University of Teramo and in Philosophy at the D'Annunzio University of Chieti–Pescara. In 1995, he was elected president of the

Province of Pescara The province of Pescara ( it, provincia di Pescara; Abruzzese: ') is a province in the Abruzzo region of Italy. Its provincial capital is the city Pescara, which has a population of 119,483 inhabitants. As of 2017, it has a total population of ...

, supported by the

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of The Olive Tree. In June 2003, D'Alfonso was elected Mayor of Pescara and was re-confirmed in 2008, though he left the office in January 2009 due to an investigation in which he was involved. In May 2014, D'Alfonso was elected

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, supported by the

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, defeating the incumbent governor Giovanni Chiodi. After the 2018 general election, D'Alfonso was elected to the Senate: in August 2018, D'Alfonso resigned from his gubernatorial seat.

References

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