Franco Gallo (born ) is an Italian

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, former

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and former President of the Italian Constitutional Court. He is a member of the

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and of the

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Biography

Gallo was born in

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to parents originally from

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(

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). After graduating in Law at the

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he was a lecturer in Tax Law at the Faculty of Law of the LUISS University and the

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and has also taught in the Faculty of Political Sciences of the

University of Naples Federico II The University of Naples Federico II ( it, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II) is a public university in Naples, Italy. Founded in 1224, it is the oldest public non-sectarian university in the world, and is now organized into 26 depar ...

. He served as Minister of Finance in the

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from 1993 to 1994. He was one of the four "technical" (non-party) ministers of that government. The initiative for which his post as minister is remembered, mainly, was the strong simplification of the tax return forms. During his ministry, "sector studies" were also introduced for the first time, ie those tools with which the taxman "estimates" the incomes of freelancers and self-employed workers. He was appointed constitutional judge by the President of the Republic

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on 14 September 2004 and was sworn in on 16 September 2004. On 6 December 2011 he was appointed vice president of the Constitutional Court by President Alfonso Quaranta. On 29 January 2013 he was elected President of the Constitutional Court of the Italian Republic, taking over from Alfonso Quaranta, remaining in office until 16 September 2013. On February 16, 2014 he was appointed president of the ''Institute of the Italian Encyclopedia''.Treccani, Franco Gallo è il nuovo presidente: ministro con Ciampi, arriva dalla Consulta
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