Massimiliano "Max" Ferrari (born 29 May 1971) is an Italian politician and journalist.
Biography
Ferrari was born in Varese. He joined
Lega Nord
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party in 1989 when he was just sixteen. In the 1998 when TelePadania (the Television of Lega Nord Party) was founded he was called to lead a television program about foreign policy, after he became the director of the TG-Nord (the television journal of TelePadania) from 12 October 2002 until 10 April 2006 and in various special occasions (such as in
Serbia
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,
Palestine
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,
Lebanon
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,
Afghanistan
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,
Cambodia
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,
Laos
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,
Vietnam
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and
Iraq
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during the war) he was a freelance war reporter.
Ferrari left the Lega Nord in 2006, in order to found the separatist party named
Independentist Front Lombardy (''Fronte Indipendentista Lombardia''),
Gli indipendentisti di Max Ferrari: "Varese provincia a statuto speciale"
, Varese News, 2 January 2007, retrieved 2011-03-05 which later joined Lega Padana of Roberto Bernardelli in order to build a new autonomist lombard party Lombardia Autonoma Lega Padana Lombardia (Padanian League Lombardy), briefly in 2008 part of the Lombardia Autonoma (''Self-Governing Lombardy'') coalition, was a Padanist and autonomist political party active in Lombardy, northern Italy, between 2001 and 2011.
The ...
then he ran for 2009 European Parliament election
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in the Pole of Autonomy The Autonomy ( it, L'Autonomia) was a heterogeneous electoral coalition of political parties in Italy, formed in the run-up to the 2009 European Parliament election in order to overcome the 4% threshold introduced in the electoral law in February 20 ...
list.
In April 2010 he returned in the Lega Nord of Umberto Bossi
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.
He's Secretary General of Lombardy-Israel Association.
References
1971 births
People from the Province of Varese
Italian journalists
Italian male journalists
Politicians of Lombardy
Living people
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