Oscar Fulvio Giannino (born 1 September 1961) is an Italian journalist and politician. A member of the Liberal Democratic Alliance for Italy (, ALI) since 2013, he is the former president of the free-market-oriented Stop the Decline (, FiD) party.

Biography

Giannino was born in

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, the capital city of the Italian region of

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. He soon started his career as journalist. In 1984, he became a member of the national leadership of the

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(, PRI). He was the national secretary () of the party's youth wing from 1984 to 1987, and was the party's spokesperson () from 1987 to 1994. From 2005 to 2009, he was a member of the Liberal Reformers (, RL). In March 2012, he was a speaker at the national congress of the Grand Orient of Italy in

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. In August 2012, Giannino founded the Stop the Decline party, and in December he announced that he would run to become

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() for the 2013 Italian general election. He stepped down from FiD's presidency () after it was discovered that he had fabricated his résumé by adding false academic claims, such as a

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in Italy and a

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and

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at the

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. The deception was discovered by the party co-founder and Giannino's colleague,

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, who was professor at the Booth School of Business and left the political association.

References

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