Dario Stefano (born 2 August 1963) is an Italian politician. Graduated in Economy, Stefano has been a member of the

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n division of the

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and taught Economics and Industrial Accounting at the

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Biography

After the

2005 Apulian regional election The Apulian regional election of 2005 took place on 3–4 April 2005. Nichi Vendola (Communist Refoundation Party) defeated incumbent Raffaele Fitto (Forza Italia). The success of Vendola came somewhat unexpected. In a Southern Italian Region, e ...

s, Stefano has been elected regional councilor with

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, supporting the

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candidate

Nichi Vendola Nicola "Nichi" Vendola (; born 26 August 1958) is an Italian left-wing politician and LGBT activist who was a Member of the Chamber of Deputies from Apulia from 1992 to 2005 and President of Apulia from 2005 to 2015. He is one of the first o ...

, who is elected governor. In 2009, he is appointed by Vendola himself Councilor for Agri-food Resources. He is later reconfirmed in the Apulian Regional Assembly after the 2010 regional elections as leader of the political association ''La Puglia in Più'' and is reappointed Councilor for Agri-food Resources in the second Vendola's junta. During the 2013 elections, ''La Puglia in Più'' makes a political agreement with Vendola's

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, and Stefano is elected

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in the

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list. On 5 June 2013, Stefano is appointed president of the Junta for the Elections, Authorizations and Immunities of the Senate: the junta has been later appointed to deliberate about

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's senatorial decadence. On 18 July 2014, Stefano candidates for the

primaries to choose Vendola's successor as gubernatorial candidate, together with the former

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Michele Emiliano Michele Emiliano (born 23 July 1959) is an Italian politician and former judge. He is the incumbent president of Apulia Region since June 2015, and he previously served as mayor of Bari from 2004 to 2014. Emiliano has often been considered a popu ...

and the former mayor of

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, both from the

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. During the primaries, Stefano received support from Vendola himself, from actress

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and director

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, owners of a house in

. Stefano manages to reach the second place, being defeated by Emiliano, who will be later elected governor after the 2015 regional elections. In 2017, Stefano doesn't join the new

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party and, with the

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, is re-elected

with the

References

External links

Official website
*Files about his parliamentary activities (in Italian)

legislature. {{DEFAULTSORT:Stefano, Dario 1963 births Living people Democratic Party (Italy) politicians 21st-century Italian politicians 20th-century Italian people