Walter Veltroni

Walter Veltroni   (journalist, writer, politician)
Born	3 July, 1955 Rome, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Parents	• Ivanka Kotnik • Vittorio Veltroni
Children	2
Spouse	Flavia Prisco
Member of	WEF/Global Leaders for Tomorrow/1997
Party	PCI, PDS, DS, PD
Italian politician. His candidacy in the 2008 general elections obtained 33.17% of the votes, but failed to take the government.  Secretary of the Democratic Party In office 14 October 2007 - 21 February 2009  Mayor of Rome In office 1 June 2001 - 13 February 2008  Member of the European Parliament In office 1999 - 2004 Preceded by Luigi Caligaris, Efthimios Christodoulou, Jean Pierre Cot, José Manuel Torres Couto, Carlos Robles Piquer, Antoinette Spaak, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Helene Carrere d'Encausse Succeeded by Elisa Ferreira, Jana Hybášková, Silvana Koch-Mehrin, Joseph Muscat, João de Deus Pinheiro, Mia de Vits, Lars Wohlin  Minister of Cultural Heritage In office 17 May 1996 - 21 October 1998

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.

He attended the 1996 Bilderberg conference was selected as Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 1997.

Background

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).

Political career

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.

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.

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.

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). 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.

 

Event Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/1996	30 May 1996	2 June 1996	Canada Toronto	The 44th Bilderberg, held in Canada

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