Silvano Moffa (born 21 April 1951 in

Rome Rome (Italian language, Italian and , ) is the capital city and most populated (municipality) of Italy. It is also the administrative centre of the Lazio Regions of Italy, region and of the Metropolitan City of Rome. A special named with 2, ...

, Italy) is an Italian politician and journalist.

Biography

Moffa joined the

Italian Social Movement The Italian Social Movement (, 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 conservatism. In 1972, the Itali ...

in 1970 and in 1973 he was elected municipal councilor in

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. In 1975 he became journalist of the newspaper

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, 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

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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 Italian general election, 2001 elections, and held office from 11 June 2001 until ...

. In 2006 Moffa was elected for the first time to the Chamber of Deputies with

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, and he was re-elected in 2008 with

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. On 30 July 2010 he left the PdL to join

Future and Freedom Future and Freedom (), whose full name was Future and Freedom for Italy (''Futuro e Libertà per l'Italia'', abbreviated to FLI), was a list of political parties in Italy, political party in Italy, comprising both liberal conservatism, liberal an ...

, led by

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

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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