Piero Aiello (born 30 June 1956) is an Italian politician from the

New Centre-Right New Centre-Right (, NCD) was a centre-right political party in Italy. The party was launched on 15 November 2013 by a group of dissidents of The People of Freedom (PdL) who opposed the party's reformation as Forza Italia (2013), Forza Italia (FI) ...

. Since 2013, he serves as Senator of the

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representing

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Biography

Political activity

In 1994, he joined the

Christian Democratic Centre The Christian Democratic Centre (, CCD) was a Christian-democratic political party in Italy from 1994 to 2002. Formed from a right-wing split from Christian Democracy, the party joined the centre-right coalition, and was a member of the European ...

. In 1999 he moved to ''

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 ...

'' and then to the ''Il Popolo Della Liberta'' (), and then joined the New Centre Right in 2013 and then to Alternative Popular.

Regional Councilor of Calabria

In the 1995, in the regional elections in Calabria, he was elected councilor of the province of

Catanzaro Catanzaro (; or ; ), also known as the "City of the two Seas" (), is an Italian city of 86,183 inhabitants (2020), the capital of the Calabria region and of its province and the second most populated comune of the region, behind Reggio Calabr ...

. In 1999, he abandoned the CCD and joined ''Forza Italia,'' re-nominated for the 2000 regional election, was re-elected as a councilor and was then reconfirmed also for the 2005 regional elections. At the 2010 regional election, he was elected councilor for the fourth time, and was then appointed regional councilor in the council led by

Giuseppe Scopelliti Giuseppe Scopelliti (born 21 November 1966 in Reggio Calabria, Italy) is an Italian politician. Mayor of Reggio Calabria He was elected Mayor of Reggio Calabria in 2002. According to investigations of anti-mafia investigators in 2016, Scopelliti ...

Election as Senator

In the

2013 Italian general election General elections were held in Italy on 24 and 25 February 2013 to determine the 630 members of the Chamber of Deputies (Italy), Chamber of Deputies and the 315 elective members of the Senate of the Republic (Italy), Senate of the Republic for ...

, he was elected to the Senate of the Republic, in the Calabria region. On November 16, 2013, with the suspension of the activities of the People of Freedom, he joined the New Center-right led by

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. On March 18, 2017, with the dissolution of the New Center Right, it merges into the

Popular Alternative Popular Alternative (, AP) is a Christian-democratic political party in Italy that was founded on 18 March 2017 after the dissolution of New Centre-Right (NCD), one of the two parties that emerged at the break-up of The People of Freedom (PdL, t ...

. On December 29, 2017, he abandoned the Popular Alternative and joined Forza Italia. In the

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, he was reappointed to the Senate in the single-member constituency of Catanzaro, but was narrowly defeated by the M5S candidate Gelsomina Vono, therefore not being re-elected.

References

1956 births Living people People from the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria Christian Democracy (Italy) politicians Christian Democratic Centre politicians Forza Italia politicians The People of Freedom politicians New Centre-Right politicians Popular Alternative politicians Forza Italia (2013) politicians Senators of Legislature XVII of Italy {{Italy-politician-ThePeopleofFreedom-stub