Massimiliano Salini (born 11 March 1973 in

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) is an Italian politician. In 2009, Salini was elected president of the

Province of Cremona The Province of Cremona ( it, provincia di Cremona; Cremunés: ; Cremasco: ; Casalasco-Viadanese: ) is a province in the Lombardy region of Italy. Its capital city is Cremona. The province occupies the central section of Padana Plain, so the ...

and held office until 2014. In 2014, he ran for the European elections in the North-West Italy Constituency on the

New Centre-Right – Union of the Centre New Centre-Right – Union of the Centre ( it, Nuovo Centrodestra – Unione di Centro, NCD-UDC), was a centre-right political alliance in Italy, for the 2014 European election. NCD-UDC supports Jean-Claude Juncker, the candidate of the Europea ...

list; with 27,000 preference votes he was the first of the non-elected. In 2014 he became MEP taking over from

Maurizio Lupi Maurizio Lupi (born 3 October 1959) is an Italian politician. He served as minister of infrastructure and transport between 28 April 2013 and 20 March 2015. Early life and education Lupi was born in Milan, Italy, on 3 October 1959. He has a deg ...

. In 2019, he was re-elected MEP on 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 ...

list.

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Living people 1973 births MEPs for Italy 2014–2019 MEPs for Italy 2019–2024 Forza Italia (2013) politicians New Centre-Right politicians The People of Freedom politicians {{Italy-politician-ThePeopleofFreedom-stub