Mario Adinolfi (born 15 August 1971) is an Italian journalist, politician and poker player. He is famous in Italy for his Catholic beliefs.

Biography

He was born in

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to Ugo Adinolfi and a woman of

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n descent. Adinolfi graduated in history. He has been a journalist since the late 1980s, writing for the newspapers ''Avvenire'', ''

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'', ''Il Popolo'' and ''La Discussione''. He also worked for the

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. He was a journalist for the

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, where he is the author and presenter of several programs. He had a brief program at

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, ''Pugni in Tasca'', aired from 2007 to 2008. He also has worked in radio and has a program on

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, since February 2015. He was the founder and is the director of the newspaper ''La Croce'', on 21 October 2014, available online and also briefly in a purchasable edition from 13 January to 16 May 2015.

Political career

Adinolfi started as a

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member, but after the party dissolution, he joined the newly created center-left Italian People's Party, being the youngest member of their constituent assembly in 1993, aged 22 years old. He was elected national president of the Popular Youth of the party in 1994, joining soon the national executive of the PPI. He founded the movement Direct Democracy to run for mayor of Rome in the administrative elections of 13 May 2001. He supported

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in the second round of the elections. He was a co-founder of the

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, being a candidate to the party leadership on 18 July 2007. He had 5906 votes, entering by his own right the constituent assembly of the party, which elected him for the commission that wrote their statute. He was also member of the national direction of the PD. He was a candidate of the PD at the legislative elections of 13–14 April 2008, in Lazio circunscrition, at number 18, but wasn't elected. He was candidate to the national secretary of the PD on 25 June 2009. He became a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies on 13 June 2012, replacing Pietro Tidei, which he was until 14 March 2013. In 2012, he was one of the first Italian parliamentarians to ask a diplomatic intervention of Europe in the Syrian civil war. In March 2016 he founded

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, a

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party. The party was accused by many political commentators of being a

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movement. Adinolfi became quite famous in Italy for his controversial statement. He created lot of protests when he stated that the women must be submissive to men, as written in the

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, and that

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was less dangerous than people who supported

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, because he killed

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for free. In May 2017, Adinolfi presented the French President

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as a Freemason. In 2014, Adinolfi published the book titled ''Voglio la mamma e La Croce'' with the ''Youcanprint'' publishing house, a book in which he invited the Italian center-left position to take the role of defensors of the weakest persons like newborns (in respect of

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and surrogacy of maternity), the elderlies (

). In November 2018, he publicly defended an Italian writer, psychologist and psychiatrist, with 40 years of professional activity, that have affirmed homosexuality is an illness and not a normal condition. The municipality of

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supported the judiciary against her. In June 2021, he publicly commented

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symbolism, shown and practiced by volunteering football players during football matches played in

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, as ridiculous.

Books

Adinolfi already published several books, including ''Email: Lettera della Generazione Invisibile'' (1998), ''Mundial, o, Della Perdita dell'Innocenza'' (2004), a novel, ''Il Conclave'' (2005), ''Generazione U'' (2007), and ''Voglio la Mamma'' (2014), against what he calls "the false myths of progress", including abortion, euthanasia, same-sex marriage and surrogate motherhood.Un libro di Mario Adinolfi (deputado Pd): "Voglio la mamma - da sinistra, contro il falsi miti di progresso", Libertà e Persona, 9 February 2014 (Italian)

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Adinolfi, Mario 1971 births Living people Democratic Party (Italy) politicians 21st-century Italian politicians Journalists from Rome Italian male journalists Italian male bloggers Italian anti-abortion activists Italian people of Australian descent Deputies of Legislature XVI of Italy