Dario Stefano (born 2 August 1963) is an Italian politician. Graduated in Economy, Stefano is a member of the

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n division of the

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and taught Economics and Industrial Accounting at the

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Biography

After the 2005 Apulian regional elections, Stefano was elected regional councillor with

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, supporting the

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candidate

Nichi Vendola Nicola "Nichi" Vendola (; born 26 August 1958) is an Italian left-wing politician and LGBT activist who was a Member of the Chamber of Deputies from Apulia from 1992 to 2005 and President of Apulia from 2005 to 2015. Since 2023 he is the Pre ...

, who is elected governor. In 2009, he was appointed by Vendola himself as Councilor for Agri-food Resources. He was later reconfirmed in the Apulian Regional Assembly after the 2010 regional elections as leader of the political association ''La Puglia in Più'' and was reappointed Councilor for Agri-food Resources in the second Vendola's junta. During the 2013 elections, ''La Puglia in Più'' made a political agreement with Vendola's

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, and Stefano was elected

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in the

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list. On 5 June 2013, Stefano was appointed president of the Junta for the Elections, Authorizations and Immunities of the Senate: the junta has been later appointed to deliberate about

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's senatorial decadence. On 18 July 2014, Stefano was a candidate for the

primaries to choose Vendola's successor as gubernatorial candidate, together with the former

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and the former mayor of

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Guglielmo Minervini, both from the Democratic Party. During the primaries, Stefano received support from Vendola himself, from actress

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and director

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, owners of a house in

. Stefano manages to reach the second place, being defeated by Emiliano, who was later elected governor after the 2015 regional elections. In 2017, Stefano didn't join the new

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party and, with the

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, was re-elected

with the Democratic Party.

References

External links

Official website
*Files about his parliamentary activities (in Italian)

legislature. {{DEFAULTSORT:Stefano, Dario 1963 births Living people Democratic Party (Italy) politicians 20th-century Italian politicians