Cornelio "Elio" Veltri (born 8 May 1938) is an Italian journalist and politician. He has been an author of several books and reports about illegality in the Italian economical and political world.

Biography

Veltri was born at

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, in

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, and graduated in medicine at the

University of Pavia The University of Pavia ( it, Università degli Studi di Pavia, UNIPV or ''Università di Pavia''; la, Alma Ticinensis Universitas) is a university located in Pavia, Lombardy, Italy. There was evidence of teaching as early as 1361, making it one ...

. Later he taught hemopathology in the same institute. In 1973-1980 he was mayor of

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as member of the

Italian Socialist Party The Italian Socialist Party (, PSI) was a socialist and later social-democratic political party in Italy, whose history stretched for longer than a century, making it one of the longest-living parties of the country. Founded in Genoa in 1892, ...

(Partito Socialista Italiano, or PSI), becoming the first mayor in Europe to forbid the historical center of his city to cars. In 1981, in polemics with PSI's then secretary

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 ...

about the growing bribery involvement of its members, he was expelled together with Franco Bassanini, Tristano Codignola and others. In 1985 he was elected in the

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regional council for the far-left party Democrazia Proletaria. In the period of the large bribing scandal Tangentopoli, he published the essays ''Milano degli scandali'' ("

Milan Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...

of the Scandals", 1991) and ''Da Craxi a Craxi'' ("From Craxi to Craxi", 1992). In

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he was elected to the

Italian Chamber of Deputies The Chamber of Deputies ( it, Camera dei deputati) is the lower house of the bicameral Italian Parliament (the other being the Senate of the Republic). The two houses together form a perfect bicameral system, meaning they perform identical funct ...

for

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/ PDS, and became a member of the parliamentary commissions dealing with mafia and

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. The following year Veltri founded the association Democrazia e Legalità ("Democracy and Legality") which has published an online journal since 2001 and, in 1998, he was one of the founded of the Italia dei Valori party. Veltri in 2001 published ''L'odore dei soldi'' ("The Money Smell"), a report about bribery in Italy written with other investigative journalist

Marco Travaglio Marco Travaglio (; born 13 October 1964) is an Italian investigative journalist, writer and opinion leader, editor of the independent journal ''Il Fatto Quotidiano''. Biography Travaglio was born in Turin and earned a degree in history from th ...

. In 2001 he founded Opposizione Civile ("Civil Opposition"), later merged in the "Cantiere per il Bene Comune". In June 2007, together with journalist

Oliviero Beha Oliviero Beha (14 January 1949 – 13 May 2017) was an Italian journalist, writer, essayist, TV, and radio host. Biography Beha was born in Florence, and began work as a journalist in 1973 for the sports newspaper ''Tuttosport'' and for ''Paese ...

, Veltri founded Lista Civica dei Cittadini per la Repubblica (also called Lista Civica Nazionale).

External links

Democrazia e Legalità official website
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