Giuseppe Ferruccio Saro (born 21 April 1951) is an Italian politician.

Political career

Saro served as Mayor of

Martignacco Martignacco ( fur, Martigna) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Udine in the Italian region Friuli-Venezia Giulia, located about northwest of Trieste and about northwest of Udine. Martignacco borders the following municipalities: ...

from 1975 to 1985. He was subsequently Regional Councilor of the

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from 1983 to 2001. From 1988 to 1992 he also was Regional assessor for Industry. From 14 January 1992 to 4 August 1993 he served as vice president of Friuli-Venezia Giulia and as assessor for Industry in the regional government led by Vinicio Turello. Since 22 March 1993 he served as Regional assessor for Labor, Cooperation and Crafts. He was chairman in the regional council and regional secretary 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, ...

from 1985 to 1992. Subsequently he was chairman of the

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 ...

group in the regional council from 1998 to 2001. He was elected Deputy among the ranks of Forza Italia in Friuli-Giulia in the 2001 general election. In 2003 he was candidate for president of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region in the regional elections with Freedom and Autonomy ( it, Libertà e Autonomia), a list founded in disagreement with the centre-right coalition following Forza Italia's choice to support the candidacy of the Northern League's

Alessandra Guerra Alessandra Guerra (born 19 July 1963) is an Italian politician, former President of Friuli-Venezia Giulia. Biography Born in Udine, the daughter of one of the founders of the Friuli Movement, she graduated in literature with 110 cum laude, was ...

instead of the incumbent president of the Region,

Renzo Tondo Renzo Tondo (born 7 August 1956) is an Italian politician, former President of Friuli-Venezia Giulia. Early life He graduated in Political Sciences at the University of Trieste. He began his career as a hotel keeper. Career First politica ...

. However, Saro's candidacy only got 3.51% of the votes, without being elected, while Freedom and Autonomy scored just 2.81% of the votes. At the 2006 general election he was elected Senator for the

Movement for Autonomy The Movement for Autonomy ( it, Movimento per l'Autonomia, MpA) is a regionalist, Christian-democratic political party in Italy, based in Sicily. The MpA, whose founder and leader is Raffaele Lombardo, demands economic development, greater autono ...

, in

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. In 2008 he was re-confirmed to the Senate among the ranks of

The People of Freedom The People of Freedom ( it, Il Popolo della Libertà, PdL) was a centre-right political party in Italy. The PdL, launched by Silvio Berlusconi on 18 November 2007, was initially a federation of political parties, notably including Forza Italia a ...

. Subsequently he became coordinator of FVG Project (''Progetto FVG''), however he was excluded from the party in 2019 by the founder Sergio Bini. In 2020 is the founder of the "Future Region Movement" (''Movimento Regione Futura, MFR).Nasce il Movimento Regione Futura, la nuova "creatura" di Ferruccio Saro
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