Stefania Gabriella Anastasia Craxi (born 25 October 1960) is an Italian politician, daughter of the former
Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi
Benedetto "Bettino" Craxi ( ; ; ; 24 February 1934 – 19 January 2000) was an Italian politician and statesman, leader of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) from 1976 to 1993, and the 45th Prime Minister of Italy, prime minister of Italy from 1 ...
and sister of
Bobo Craxi
Vittorio Michele Craxi, commonly known as Bobo Craxi (born 6 August 1964), is an Italian politician, son of the former Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi and brother of Stefania Craxi.
Biography
Formerly a prominent member of the Italian S ...
.
Biography
Stefania Craxi was an entrepreneur in the world of television, she left her career as a television producer in 2000.
She entered politics in 2006, when she was elected MP with
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 ...
. She was re-elected MP in 2008, among the ranks of
The People of Freedom
The People of Freedom (, PdL) was a centre-right political party in Italy. The PdL launched by Silvio Berlusconi as an electoral list, including and National Alliance, on 27 February for the 2008 Italian general election. The list was later t ...
. She also served as Undersecretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the
Berlusconi IV Cabinet
The fourth Berlusconi government was the 60th Cabinet (government), government of Politics of Italy, 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 ...
, from 2008 to 2011. In 2011 she left the PdL and founded the
Italian Reformists.
In the general election of 2018 she was candidate for the Senate in the uninominal constituency of Monza-Seregno (supported by the centre-right coalition) and she was elected with the 46.79% of the vote.
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Personal life
She married twice: to entrepreneur Renato Neri, with whom she had her son Federico (1987); and to Marco Bassetti, former president of the television distribution company Endemol
Endemol B.V. (stylized in all lowercase) was a Dutch-based media company that produced and distributed multiplatform entertainment content. The company annually produced more than 15,000 hours of programming across scripted and non-scripted gen ...
, now in charge of Banijay, with whom she had daughters Benedetta and Anita (1991).
References
External links
‘Secretary of State Stefania Gabriella Anastasia Craxi’
Italian Ministry of Foreign affairs.
The website of the new political party founded by Stefania Craxi
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1960 births
Living people
Politicians from Milan
The People of Freedom politicians
Forza Italia politicians
Forza Italia (2013) politicians
Italian Socialist Party politicians
Women government ministers of Italy
Senators of Legislature XVIII of Italy
21st-century Italian women politicians
Forza Italia (2013) senators
Deputies of Legislature XV of Italy
Deputies of Legislature XVI of Italy
20th-century Italian women
Women members of the Chamber of Deputies (Italy)
Women members of the Senate of the Republic (Italy)
Children of prime ministers of Italy