Giovanni Roberti (3 February 1909 – 18 January 2010) was an Italian politician.

Biography

Giovanni Roberti was born in 1909 in

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

. During the

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he was captured by the British and interned in the Hereford concentration camp (known as "Fascists' criminal camp") in

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. A Labor lawyer and professor of labor legislation at the

University of Naples 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 was co-founder and president from 1950 and secretary general from 1964 to 1977 of CISNAL, the union close to the positions of

national syndicalism National syndicalism is a far-right adaptation of syndicalism to suit the broader agenda of integral nationalism. National syndicalism developed in France in the early 20th century, and then spread to Italy, Spain, and Portugal. It is generall ...

. Roberti was elected in 1948 to the Chamber of Deputies in the constituency of Naples among the ranks of the

Italian Social Movement The Italian Social Movement ( it, Movimento Sociale Italiano, MSI) was a neo-fascist political party in Italy. A far-right party, it presented itself until the 1990s as the defender of Italian fascism's legacy, and later moved towards national ...

and he sat uninterruptedly in

Montecitorio The Palazzo Montecitorio () is a palace in Rome and the seat of the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the Italian Parliament. History The palace's name derives from the slight hill on which it is built, which was claimed to be the ''Mons ...

from the first to the seventh parliamentary legislature (1976–1979). In 1977 he joined the

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party. Since 1979, after the election defeat of National Democracy, he retired from politics. In 1988 he published the volume "The right-wing opposition in Italy, 1946–1979". He died on 18 January 2010, at the age of 100.Gianni Roberti, dal Fascists’ criminal camp alla pattuglia del Msi del 1948
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1909 births 2010 deaths Politicians from Naples Italian Social Movement politicians National Democracy (Italy) politicians Deputies of Legislature I of Italy Deputies of Legislature II of Italy Deputies of Legislature III of Italy Deputies of Legislature IV of Italy Deputies of Legislature V of Italy Deputies of Legislature VI of Italy Deputies of Legislature VII of Italy Italian military personnel of World War II Italian prisoners of war World War II prisoners of war held by the United Kingdom Italian centenarians Men centenarians {{Italy-politician-stub