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| + | #REDIRECT[[Walter Veltroni]] |
| − | |wikipedia=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Veltroni
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| − | |image=Walter Veltroni 2015.jpg
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| − | |nationality=Italian
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| − | |birth_date=3 July, 1955
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| − | |birth_place=Rome, Italy
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| − | |description=Italian politician. His candidacy in the 2008 general elections obtained 33.17% of the votes, but failed to take the government.
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| − | |constitutes=journalist, writer,politician
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| − | |spouses=Flavia Prisco
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| − | |parents=Ivanka Kotnik,Vittorio Veltroni
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| − | |political_parties=PCI, PDS, DS, PD
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| − | |title=Secretary of the Democratic Party
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| − | |title=Mayor of Rome
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| − | |title=Member of the European Parliament
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| − | |title=Minister of Cultural Heritage
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| − | |start=17 May 1996
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| − | '''Walter Veltroni''' is an Italian writer, film director, journalist, and politician, who served as the first leader of the Democratic Party within the centre-left opposition, until his resignation on 17 February 2009. He served as Mayor of Rome from June 2001 to February 2008.
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| − | ==Background==
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| − | Walter Veltroni is the son of [[Vittorio Veltroni]], who was editor-in-chief of [[RAI]] in the 1940s and died in 1956 when Walter was one year old. His mother [[Ivanka Kotnik]] was the daughter of [[Cyril Kotnik]], the ambassador of the then [[Kingdom of Yugoslavia]] to the [[Holy See]], who helped numerous Roman Jews to escape persecution by the German occupiers after the [[armistice in 1943]] (and the fall of [[Mussolini]]). <ref>http://books.google.com/books?id=3wA8CPPjNCgC&pg=PA64&lpg=PA64&dq=%22cyril+kotnik%22&source=web&ots=zXU_ArZsc_&sig=aIxKA3dozCD7fr5-q15hi1dtfoQ#PPA64,M1</ref>
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| − | ==Political career==
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| − | Veltroni was a Roman city councilor from 1976 to 1981. Since 1987 he has been a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies for the [[Italian Communist Party]] and its successor parties, [[Democratici di Sinistra]] and [[Partito Democratico]]. From 1992 to 1996 he was editor-in-chief of the left-wing daily [[L’Unità]]. In the first cabinet of [[Romano Prodi]], he was Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Culture from 1996 to 1998. From 1999 to 2004 he sat as a member of the social democratic group in the [[European Parliament]].
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| − | In 2001 he was elected mayor of [[Rome]] and in 2006 he was confirmed in office with over 60% of the vote. In 2007 he worked in this capacity for new investigations into the [[Pasolini]] murder case. On February 13, 2008, he resigned from the mayor's office.
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| − | As a co-founder of the [[Partito Democratico]], he was elected chairman (Segretario) on October 14, 2007 in a basic vote of all party supporters (primarie) with 75.7% of the votes.
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| − | In the parliamentary elections on April 13 and 14, 2008, Veltroni stood as the top candidate of the new, center-oriented party. His candidacy in the 2008 general elections obtained 33.17% of the votes (adding the votes of his external ally [[Antonio di Pietro]], he reached 37.54 %), which did not prevent the absolute majority of the coalition chaired by [[Silvio Berlusconi]], which reached 37.39% (46.81% adding to the [[Northern League]])<ref>http://www.corriere.it/Speciali/Politica/2008/elezioni08/SEAS/politiche/camera/italia/20080413000000_20_ITALIA_IT.shtml</ref>. On February 17, 2009, after the regional elections held in [[Sardinia]], Veltroni tendered his irrevocable resignation as secretary general of the Democratic Party, being temporarily replaced by the deputy secretary, [[Dario Franceschini]].
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| − | |date=31.08.2021
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| − | |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Veltroni
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