Aniello "Nello" Formisano (born 10 June 1954) is an Italian

politician A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government. Politicians propose, support, reject and create laws that govern the land and by an extension of its people. Broadly speaking, a ...

and lawyer. Born in

Torre del Greco Torre del Greco (; nap, Torre d' 'o Grieco; "Greek man's Tower") is a ''comune'' in the Metropolitan City of Naples in Italy, with a population of c. 85,000 . The locals are sometimes called ''Corallini'' because of the once plentiful cora ...

Province of Naples The Province of Naples ( it, Provincia di Napoli; nap, Pruvincia 'e Nàpule) was a province in the Campania region of southern Italy. In 2014/2015, the reform of local authorities (Law 142/1990 and Law 56/2014), replaced the Province of Naples ...

, Formisano graduated in law and has been also a

SIAE SIAE ( en, Italian Society of Authors and Publishers, Italian: Società Italiana degli Autori ed Editori) is the Italian copyright collecting agency. Founded in 1882 in the Kingdom of Italy, it is the monopolist intermediary between the author ...

representative. In the general election of 2001 he was elected senator in the uninominal constituency "Portici-San Giorgio" (in

Campania Campania (, also , , , ) is an administrative Regions of Italy, region of Italy; most of it is in the south-western portion of the Italian peninsula (with the Tyrrhenian Sea to its west), but it also includes the small Phlegraean Islands and the i ...

) as member of

The Daisy ''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the m ...

(with the support of The Olive Tree). In 2005 he left The Daisy to join the

Italy of Values Italy of Values ( it, Italia dei Valori, IdV) is a populist and anti-corruption political party in Italy. The party was founded in 1998 by former ''Mani pulite'' prosecutor Antonio Di Pietro, who entered politics in 1996 and finally left the par ...

(IdV) party, led by

Antonio Di Pietro Antonio Di Pietro (; born 2 October 1950) is an Italian politician, lawyer and magistrate. He was a minister in government of Romano Prodi, a Senator, and a Member of the European Parliament. He was a prosecutor in the ''Mani Pulite'' corrupti ...

. In the general elections of 2006 he was re-elected to the Senate among the ranks of the

Democrats of the Left The Democrats of the Left ( it, Democratici di Sinistra, DS) was a social-democratic political party in Italy. The DS, successor of the Democratic Party of the Left (PDS) and the Italian Communist Party, was formed in 1998 upon the merger of th ...

(DS) in the

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region (thanks to an agreement between IdV and DS). In the 2008 general elections he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies, in the "Campania 1" constituency. In 2012, following strong internal controversy within the IdV, Formisano and

Massimo Donadi Massimo Donadi (born 11 February 1963 in Venice, Italy) is an Italian politician from Veneto. Having joined Italy of Values (IdV) in 2000, he was elected to the Italian Senate in a by-election held in January 2005. He was elected to the Italian ...

left the party and founded Rights and Freedom. This movement then merged into the Democratic Centre, a new centrist party founded by

Bruno Tabacci Bruno Tabacci (born 27 August 1946) is an Italian politician and member of the Chamber of Deputies. He is the president of the Democratic Centre. In the past, he was member of Christian Democracy and served as the president of Lombardy from 1 ...

, to which Donadi and Formisano also belong. In the general election of 2013 he was again candidate to the Chamber of Deputies, and he was re-elected. On 30 October 2014 Formisano decided to join the Italy of Values again.La nuova Italia dei Valori e il ritorno nell'IDV di Aniello Formisano
/ref> Following the decision of IdV to support the re-candidacy of Luigi de Magistris as mayor of

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

, Formisano left the party again and joined to the

Moderates Moderate is an ideological category which designates a rejection of radical or extreme views, especially in regard to politics and religion. A moderate is considered someone occupying any mainstream position avoiding extreme views. In American ...

Giacomo Portas Giacomo Portas (born 27 September 1959 in Iglesias, Sardinia) is an Italian politician. Biography Giacomo Portas was born in Iglesias, but he later moved to Turin. In 2005 founded the Moderates' party, rooted mainly in Piedmont it, Piem ...

. On 9 February 2017 he joined the

Civics and Innovators Civics and Innovators ( it, Civici e Innovatori, CI) was a centrist and liberal sub-group within the Mixed Group (previously a parliamentary group) in the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Parliament. Its leader was Giovanni Monchiero. The CI ...

group, while on 28 February of the same year he left the Moderates and the Civics and Innovators's group to join the Democratic and Progressive Movement. On the occasion of the 2018 municipal elections he ran for mayor of

, but he was not elected.

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