Francesco Storace (born 25 January 1959) is an Italian politician and journalist.

Biography

Born in

Cassino Cassino () is a ''comune'' in the province of Frosinone at the southern end of the region of Lazio. It's the last city of the Valle Latina, Latin Valley. It is located at the foot of Monte Cairo near the confluence of the Gari (river), Gari and ...

, in the

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region, Storace began his career at the

right-wing Right-wing politics is the range of political ideologies that view certain social orders and hierarchies as inevitable, natural, normal, or desirable, typically supporting this position based on natural law, economics, authority, property ...

newspaper '' Il Secolo d'Italia'' until entering the ranks of the

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(MSI), a

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party, and later of

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(AN), a

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party that repudiated of extremism. He was elected to the

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for the first time in 1994. At the time, he was the spokesman of

Gianfranco Fini Gianfranco Fini (born 3 January 1952) is a retired Italian politician who served as the president of the Italian Chamber of Deputies from 2008 to 2013 and Deputy Prime Minister from 2001 to 2006. He is the former leader of the far-right Italian ...

. From 1996 to 2000, he was chairman of the bicameral Commission supervising the

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. In April 2000, Storace was elected president of Lazio. Among the measures taken by Storace, there was the opening of Sant'Andrea hospital and other health centres.
Paghiamo ancora i debiti di Badaloni
'', "Il quotidiano della Tuscia"]. His health management of Lazio won praise for

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and some members of the Vatican curia. In 2005, he failed the re-election, defeated by the centre-left candidate Piero Marrazzo. He was subsequently named

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in the

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. In March 2006, Storace was involved in the Laziogate scandal, leading to his resignation from the government. He was suspected to have illegally exploited informatics mean to investigate the memberships of the new party founded by

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, a former member of AN who was one of his rivals in the 2005 Lazio regional election. In October 2012, Storace was acquitted because "the crime does not exist". On 10 April 2006, he was elected to the

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in Lazio, where he was at the head of the party list. On 3 July 2007, after having continually criticized the leadership of Fini at least since 2005, Storace finally left AN on 16 November 2007. One of the motivations of the criticism of Fini and AN was what Storace saw as the repudiation of the values of the right. In November 2007, he founded his brand new

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party named

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. Storace ran for president in the 2013 Lazio regional election but got 29.3% of the vote and was beaten by

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. On 21 November 2018, Storace stipulated a federative agreement with

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in view of the European elections and with the aim of creating an alternative conservative and sovereign movement to the

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. He later dropped out of politics and returned to journalism. On 23 January 2019, he was appointed editor of the online newspaper ''Il Secolo d'Italia''.Francesco Storace alla direzione del Secolo d'Italia, sito=Prima Comunicazione
/ref> He is subsequently became deputy editor of the newspaper ''

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''.

References

External links

Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Storace, Francesco 1959 births Living people People from Cassino Italian Social Movement politicians Italian newspaper editors Italian fascists National Alliance (Italy) politicians The Right (Italy) politicians National Movement for Sovereignty politicians Brothers of Italy politicians Ministers of health of Italy Deputies of Legislature XIII of Italy Deputies of Legislature XIV of Italy Senators of Legislature XV of Italy Presidents of Lazio