Francesco Roberti (born 15 June 1967) is an Italian politician and current

president of Molise The following is a complete list of presidents of Molise. Molise is a region of Southern Italy established in 1970. Prior to then, it was part of the region of Abruzzi e Molise Prior to the 1995 election, the president was not directly ele ...

Biography

Graduated in electronic engineering at the

University of Florence The University of Florence (Italian: ''Università degli Studi di Firenze'', UniFI) is an Italian public research university located in Florence, Italy. It comprises 12 schools and has around 50,000 students enrolled. History The first universi ...

, Roberti specialized in construction engineering, enrolled in the order of the

province of Campobasso A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman ''provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire's territorial possessions outsi ...

, and became a professor of electronics at the I.I.S.S. "Ettore Majorana" of

Termoli Termoli (Neapolitan language, Molisano: ''Térmëlë'') is a town and ''comune'' (municipality) on the south Adriatic coast of Italy, in the province of Campobasso, region of Molise. It has a population of around 32,000, having expanded quickly af ...

Political activity

A member of

Forza Italia Forza ItaliaThe name is not usually translated into English: ''forza'' is the second-person singular imperative of ''forzare'', in this case translating to "to compel" or "to press", and so means something like "Forward, Italy", "Come on, Ital ...

since its foundation, Roberti was elected city councilor in

in 2002, a position he held until June 2019, when he was elected mayor representing the

centre-right coalition The centre-right coalition ( it, coalizione di centro-destra) is an alliance of political parties in Italy, active—under several forms and names—since 1994, when Silvio Berlusconi entered politics and formed his Forza Italia party. Despite ...

. The following September, he was elected President of the

Province of Campobasso A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman ''provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire's territorial possessions outsi ...

President of Molise

On the occasion of the 2023 regional elections, Roberti became the official candidate of the

centre-right Centre-right politics lean to the Right-wing politics, right of the Left–right politics, political spectrum, but are closer to the Centrism, centre. From the 1780s to the 1880s, there was a shift in the Western world of social class structure a ...

for the office of

President of Molise The following is a complete list of presidents of Molise. Molise is a region of Southern Italy established in 1970. Prior to then, it was part of the region of Abruzzi e Molise Prior to the 1995 election, the president was not directly ele ...

, being elected with 62% of the votes in an electoral round characterized by very heavy abstention.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Roberti, Francesco 1967 births Living people Forza Italia politicians The People of Freedom politicians Forza Italia (2013) politicians 21st-century Italian politicians University of Florence alumni Presidents of Molise Presidents of the Province of Campobasso