Silvano Moffa (born 21 April 1951 in Rome, Lazio) is an Italian politician and journalist.

Biography

Moffa joined the

Italian Social Movement The Italian Social Movement ( it, Movimento Sociale Italiano, MSI) was a neo-fascist political party in Italy. A far-right party, it presented itself until the 1990s as the defender of Italian fascism's legacy, and later moved towards national ...

in 1970 and in 1973 he was elected municipal councilor in

Colleferro Colleferro (IPA: /kɔllefɛrro/) is a small town with 20 698 inhabitants of the Metropolitan City of Rome in the Lazio region of central Italy. It is a residential zone with many different industries and sports structures. It borders the City of ...

. In 1975 he became journalist of the newspaper

Secolo d'Italia ''Secolo d'Italia'' (; "Century of Italy") is a daily, conservative, online newspaper in Italy, published since 1952. In 2012, it ceased its print edition and continued as an online-only publication. Political and ideological context After ...

, of which he became editor-in-chief in 1977. He left the newspaper in 1989 to devote himself more to politics. In 1993 Moffa was elected Mayor of

with the 51.0% of the vote and he was reconfirmed in 1997, with the 66.5% of the vote. He remained Mayor of Colleferro until 2001. In 1998 he was also elected President of

Province of Rome The Province of Rome ( it, Provincia di Roma) was one of the five provinces that formed part of the region of Lazio in Italy. It was established in 1870 and disestablished in 2014. It was essentially coterminous with the Rome metropolitan area. ...

with the 51.1% of the vote, but he was defeated by Enrico Gasbarra. In 2004 he was elected for the third time Mayor of Colleferro, with the 50.6% of the vote. On 30 December 2004 he was appointed Undersecretary to the Ministry of Infrastructure in the

Berlusconi II Cabinet The second Berlusconi government was the 57th government of the Italian Republic and the first government of the XIV Legislature. It took office following the 2001 elections, and held office from 11 June 2001 until 23 April 2005, a total of 1,412 ...

. In 2006 Moffa was elected for the first time to the Chamber of Deputies with National Alliance, and he was re-elected in 2008 with

The People of Freedom The People of Freedom ( it, Il Popolo della Libertà, PdL) was a centre-right political party in Italy. The PdL, launched by Silvio Berlusconi on 18 November 2007, was initially a federation of political parties, notably including Forza Italia ...

. On 30 July 2010 he left the PdL to join

Future and Freedom Future and Freedom ( it, Futuro e Libertà), whose full name was Future and Freedom for Italy (''Futuro e Libertà per l'Italia'', abbreviated to FLI), was a political party in Italy, comprising both liberal and national conservative elements. F ...

, led by

Gianfranco Fini Gianfranco Fini (born 3 January 1952) is an Italian politician who served as the president of the Italian Chamber of Deputies from 2008 to 2013. He is the former leader of the far-right Italian Social Movement, the conservative National Allianc ...

. On 14 December 2010 Moffa, although he was signatory of the distrust motion to the

Berlusconi IV Cabinet The fourth Berlusconi government was the 60th government of Italy, in office from 8 May 2008 to 16 November 2011. It was the fourth government led by Silvio Berlusconi, who then became the longest-serving Prime Minister of Italy of the Italian R ...

presented by FLI and other parties, following the vote in the Senate, he announced that he had never shared the line of no confidence, but that he would still have voted the distrust provided provided his request for Italo Bocchino's resignation as group leader had been accepted, but this request that was rejected. Moffa so decided not to appear in the Chamber for the vote and left FLI, to join the Mixed Group.Il Fli in pezzi: Moffa chiede la testa di Bocchino e se ne va
/ref> In 2011 Moffa founded Popular Action and joined the new parliamentary group Responsible Initiative (later "People and Territory"). In 2015 he again ran for mayor of Colleferro, but lost in the second ballot against the centre-left candidate Pierluigi Sanna.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Moffa, Silvano 1951 births Living people Italian Social Movement politicians National Alliance (Italy) politicians The People of Freedom politicians Future and Freedom politicians Deputies of Legislature XV of Italy Deputies of Legislature XVI of Italy Journalists from Rome Politicians of Lazio People from Colleferro