Angelo Michele Iorio (born 17 January 1948) is an Italian politician. He was

president of Molise The following is a complete list of presidents of Molise. Molise is a Regions of Italy, region of Southern Italy established in 1970. Prior to then, it was part of the region of Abruzzi e Molise Prior to the 1995 Molise regional election, 199 ...

from 1998 to 1999 and from 2001 to 2013.

Biography

After graduating in Medicine at the

Sapienza University of Rome The Sapienza University of Rome (), formally the Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", abbreviated simply as Sapienza ('Wisdom'), is a Public university, public research university located in Rome, Italy. It was founded in 1303 and is ...

, Iorio began his medical career as a surgeon at the Ospedale Civile in

Isernia Isernia () is a town and ''comune'' in the southern Italian region of Molise, and the capital of the province of Isernia. Geography Situated on a rocky crest rising from between the Carpino and the Sordo rivers, the plan of Isernia still refl ...

. In 1975 ,he joined the

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(DC) party, and between 1980 and 1990 he held various positions in local administrations, including councilor for public works in the

province of Isernia The province of Isernia () is a Provinces of Italy, province in the Molise region of Italy. The provincial capital is the city Isernia and the president of the province is Alfredo Ricci. The province of Isernia has an area of and a population o ...

, councilor for urban planning, and mayor of Isernia. In 1994, after the dissolution of the DC, Iorio joined the Italian People's Party (PPI), in whose lists he was elected for the 1995 Molise regional elections. In February 1998, Iorio left the PPI to join

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. Subsequently, he promoted a majority that was different from the one that came out from the 1995 regional election; he then replaced the president Marcello Veneziale from The Olive Tree coalition and took over his place as

. After having been defeated at the

2000 Molise regional election The Molise regional election of 2000 took place on 16 April 2000. Giovanni Di Stasi (Democrats of the Left) was narrowly elected President, defeating Michele Iorio (Forza Italia (FI; ) was a centre-right liberal-conservative political pa ...

due to some defects of form, Iorio managed to cancel the result of the elections, and in the

2001 Molise regional election The Molise regional election of 2001 took place on 11 November 2001. It was an early election as the 2000 regional election was invalidated due to irregularities in the vote. The election consisted in a re-proposition of the 2000 race, but thi ...

he was re-elected president. He won the 2006 Molise regional election, and then managed re-election in the 2011 Molise regional election; both of those elections were cancelled due to irregularity in the voting. Iorio tried once again to be elected president at the 2013 Molise regional election but was defeated by the Democratic Party candidate Paolo Di Laura Frattura. After failing to be elected to the Senate of the Republic at the

2018 Italian general election The 2018 Italian general election was held on 4 March 2018 after the Italian Parliament was Dissolution of parliament in Italy, dissolved by President Sergio Mattarella on 28 December 2017. Voters were electing the 630 members of the Chamber of ...

, Iorio candidated at the regional council of

Molise Molise ( , ; ; , ) is a Regions of Italy, region in Southern Italy. Until 1963, it formed part of the region of Abruzzi e Molise together with Abruzzo. The split, which did not become effective until 1970, makes Molise the newest region in Ital ...

for the 2018 Italian regional elections, supporting the

centre-right coalition The centre-right coalition () is a political alliance of political parties in Italy active under several forms and names since 1994, when Silvio Berlusconi entered politics and formed the party. It has mostly competed with the centre-left c ...

governor candidate

Donato Toma Donato Toma (born 4 December 1957) is an Italian politician, president of Molise from 2018 to 2023. Biography Toma graduated in Economy at the University of Naples Federico II and became a business consultant, teaching also at the Universit ...

, who was elected president of Molise. Iorio won a seat in the regional council of Molise, elected with

Us with Italy Us with Italy (, NcI) was a Liberal conservatism, liberal conservative and Christian democracy, Christian-democratic political party in Italy. NcI started as a federation of minor centre-right parties and, as such, was part of the Centre-right ...

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* Files about his parliamentary activities (in Italian)
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legislature. {{DEFAULTSORT:Iorio, Angelo Michele 1948 births Living people Christian Democracy (Italy) politicians Italian People's Party (1994) politicians Forza Italia politicians The People of Freedom politicians 20th-century Italian politicians People from the Province of Campobasso Italian surgeons Mayors of Isernia Members of the Regional Council of Molise Sapienza University of Rome alumni