Giuseppe Ferruccio Saro (born 21 April 1951) is an Italian politician.

Political career

Saro served as Mayor of

Martignacco Martignacco () is a (municipality) in the Regional decentralization entity of Udine in the Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, located about northwest of Trieste and about northwest of Udine. Martignacco borders the following municipalit ...

from 1975 to 1985. He was subsequently Regional Councilor of the

Friuli-Venezia Giulia Friuli-Venezia Giulia () is one of the 20 regions of Italy and one of five autonomous regions with special statute. The regional capital is Trieste on the Gulf of Trieste, a bay of the Adriatic Sea. Friuli-Venezia Giulia has an area of and a ...

from 1983 to 2001. From 1988 to 1992 he also was Regional assessor for Industry. From 14 January 1992 to 4 August 1993 he served as vice president of Friuli-Venezia Giulia and as assessor for Industry in the regional government led by Vinicio Turello. Since 22 March 1993 he served as Regional assessor for Labor, Cooperation and Crafts. He was chairman in the regional council and regional secretary of the

Italian Socialist Party The Italian Socialist Party (, PSI) was a Social democracy, social democratic and Democratic socialism, democratic socialist political party in Italy, whose history stretched for longer than a century, making it one of the longest-living parti ...

from 1985 to 1992. Subsequently he was chairman of the

Forza Italia (FI; ) was a centre-right liberal-conservative political party in Italy, with Christian democratic,Chiara Moroni, , Carocci, Rome 2008 liberalOreste Massari, ''I partiti politici nelle democrazie contempoiranee'', Laterza, Rome-Bari 2004 (esp ...

group in the regional council from 1998 to 2001. He was elected Deputy among the ranks of Forza Italia in Friuli-Giulia in the 2001 general election. In 2003 he was candidate for president of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region in the regional elections with Freedom and Autonomy (), a list founded in disagreement with the centre-right coalition following Forza Italia's choice to support the candidacy of the Northern League's

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instead of the incumbent president of the Region,

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. However, Saro's candidacy only got 3.51% of the votes, without being elected, while Freedom and Autonomy scored just 2.81% of the votes. At the 2006 general election he was elected Senator for the

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, in

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. In 2008 he was re-confirmed to the Senate among the ranks of

The People of Freedom The People of Freedom (, PdL) was a centre-right political party in Italy. The PdL launched by Silvio Berlusconi as an electoral list, including and National Alliance, on 27 February for the 2008 Italian general election. The list was later t ...

. Subsequently he became coordinator of

FVG Project FVG Project (, PFVG) was a centre-right political party active in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy. The party was launched in 2017 and originally led by entrepreneur Sergio Bini, Ferruccio Saro and Marco Pottino. Saro was a former member of the Ita ...

(''Progetto FVG''), however he was excluded from the party in 2019 by the founder Sergio Bini. In 2020 is the founder of the "Future Region Movement" (''Movimento Regione Futura, MFR).Nasce il Movimento Regione Futura, la nuova "creatura" di Ferruccio Saro
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