Denis Verdini
| The Honourable Denis Verdini |
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| Member of the Italian Senate | |
| Assumed office 15 March 2013 |
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| Constituency | Florence |
| Member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies | |
| In office 26 May 2001 – 14 March 2013 |
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| Constituency | Florence |
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| Born | 8 May 1951 Fivizzano, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Political party | Italian Republican Party (1970s–1995) Forza Italia (1995–2009) The People of Freedom (2009–2013) Forza Italia (2013–2015) Liberal Popular Alliance (2015–present) |
| Children | Tommaso Francesca Diletta |
| Alma mater | University of Florence |
| Profession | Tax advisor |
Denis Verdini (born 8 May 1951, in Fivizzano) is an Italian politician and banker.
Biography
He graduated in Political Sciences and later became president of the local cooperative bank Credito Cooperativo Fiorentino.
He began his political career in the Italian Republican Party, without being elected in the 1994 Italian general elections. After Silvio Berlusconi's victory in those elections, he became a member of his Forza Italia party. He was subsequently elected in the Italian Parliament in 2001, 2006 and 2008.[1] He is a minor shareholder (15%) of the newspaper Il Foglio.
In 2009, after Berlusconi created The People of Freedom, he was named member of the national coordination office, together with Ignazio La Russa and Sandro Bondi.
On 23 July 2010 he resigned as president of Credito Cooperativo Fiorentino after his involvement in the so-called "P3" scandal,[2] in which he has been charged for corruption and participation in illegal secret activities, aiming to influence the verdict of the Italian Constitutional Court regarding the Lodo Alfano, a law by which Berlusconi would escape his penal involvements due to its institutional role (the law was later declared anti-constitutional). Verdini is also under investigation by the Court of Florence for corruption.[3]
In July 2015, Verdini left Forza Italia and founded a new political party Liberal Popular Alliance, in support of Matteo Renzi's government.
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| Italian Chamber of Deputies | ||
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Title jointly held
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Member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies Legislatures XIV, XV, XVI 2001 – present |
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| Preceded by | National coordinator of Forza Italia 2008–2009 |
Succeeded by Himself with Sandro Bondi and Ignazio La Russa as National Coordinator of People of Freedom |
| New political party | National coordinator of The People of Freedom 2009 – present With: Sandro Bondi Ignazio La Russa |
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