Goffredo Bettini (born 5 November 1952) is an Italian politician, founding member of the

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(PD). As mentor and closest advisor of PD's former secretary,

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, Bettini is considered one of the most influential and powerful politician within the party.

Biography

Goffredo Maria Bettini was born in

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in 1962; he is a descendant of the Rocchi Bettini Camerata Passionei Mazzoleni, an aristocratic family from

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. During the

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, he joined in the

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(FGCI), where he met

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, to whom he will always be very close. From 1977 to 1979, Bettini served as the Roman secretary of the FGCI and subsequently entered in the national secretariat of the federation, in the years in which

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was serving national secretary. From 1986 to 1990, he was city secretary of the

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(PCI) in Rome and in 1989, he was elected municipal councilor with the PCI. He retained his two posts after the "Bolognina change" and the consequent birth of the

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(PDS). In 1993, he was elected to the

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for the first time, taking over from the resigning Vincenzo Recchia. In 1993, he was the strategist of

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's candidacy for

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, who was elected in the second round in December, defeating the

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candidate,

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. In the 1994 general election, Bettini run in the single-member constituency of Rome–Prenestino–Centocelle, for the Chamber of Deputies, within the

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, but he was not elected.Elezioni del 1994 – Collegio di Roma–Prenestino–Centocell
''Ministero dell'Interno'' In the 1996 general election, he run in the proportional lists for the Chamber of Deputies, and he failed in being elected. In 1997, following Francesco Rutelli's second victory in the municipal election, Bettini was appointed responsible for institutional relations of the municipality; he resigned from this position after two years to become president of the Rome Auditorium. In the 2000 Lazio regional election, he arrived was elected in the regional council, for the

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(DS), the heir of the PDS. In

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, he was re-elected to the Chamber and became a member of the national secretariat of the DS, while in the

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, Bettini was elected senator for the first time. On 4 November 2007, after the foundation of the

(PD), Bettini was appointed party's coordinator of by the new secretary,

. On 28 November 2007, he resigned from the office of senator to devote himself fully to party's activity. He held the office of coordinator until Veltroni's resignation in February 2009. In 2014, he ran for the European election with the PD in the

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constituency, being elected with 90,462 preferences. Since 2019, when

was elected secretary of the PD, Bettini became one of the most influential politicians within the party, as well as his closest advisor.

Electoral history

First-past-the-post elections

References

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