Vittorio Michele Craxi, commonly known as Bobo Craxi (born 6 August 1964), is an Italian politician, son of the former

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Bettino Craxi Benedetto "Bettino" Craxi ( , , ; 24 February 1934 – 19 January 2000) was an Italian politician, leader of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) from 1976 to 1993, and the 45th prime minister of Italy from 1983 to 1987. He was the first PSI membe ...

and brother of Stefania Craxi.

Biography

Formerly a prominent member of the

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and Socialist League, he was a founder of the

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in 2001. He has been elected MP at the

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for the riding of

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in the 2001 general election in the

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centre-right coalition, serving until 2006. He left the NPSI in late January 2006 after the rejection, by a judicial court, of his claim of having been elected as new national Secretary. Thus he founded a new movement, The Socialists, of which he was the leader for a period. The party was part of the centre-left coalition The Union, and eventually merged into the refounded

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in 2007. In 2006-2008 he served in the Prodi government as undersecretary of Foreign Affairs, delegated to

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relationships.Il governo Prodi ha giurato Nominati i sottosegretari
/ref> Bobo Craxi was candidate among the ranks of PSI for the Regional Council of Lazio in 2010 and for the Senate in 2013, but on both occasions he was not elected. On 24 October 2015 he founded Socialist Area ( it, Area Socialista), as internal faction of the Italian Socialist Party. On the occasion of the

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he was a candidate for the centre-left coalition in the single-member constituency "Sicily 1-02
Elezioni, Bobo Craxi corre per la Camera a Palermo: "Accetto la proposta del centrosinistra"
but he got only 15% of the votes and he was not elected.

References

External links

Personal website
1964 births Living people Politicians from Milan People of Sicilian descent Italian Socialist Party politicians Socialist Party (Italy, 1996) politicians New Italian Socialist Party politicians Children of national leaders 20th-century Italian politicians 21st-century Italian politicians {{Sicily-politician-stub