Roberto Giachetti (born 24 April 1961) is an Italian politician, member of

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and of the

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. He has been a member of the

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since 2001.

Biography

Roberto Giachetti was born in

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in 1961. As a student, he was an activist of center-left libertarian Radical Party (PR), and worked with

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. When the Radical Party was dissolved, Giachetti joined the Italian Greens and was elected a

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councillor in Rome. In 1993, Mayor of Rome

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appointed him director of his mayoral cabinet ( it, capo di gabinetto). Along with Rutelli, he left the

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(FdV) in 1999 to join the newly-launched Democrats party; in 2002, he was one of the founders of

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(''La Margherita''; DL), born from the merger of the Democrats and the PPI. During the same year, he became municipal secretary of The Daisy in Rome and was first elected to the

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. In The Daisy, Giachetti was a member of the ''

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'' faction, pushing to model the party after the

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. He was confirmed for re-election in the

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, backed from the centre-left coalition The Olive Tree, and in the 2008 general election, in the ranks of the just formed

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(PD). Beginning after the 2013 general election, he became gradually affiliated with the ''

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'', the economically market-liberal, socially progressive faction around party secretary

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. On 21 March 2013, Giachetti was elected Vice-President of the Chamber of Deputies. In May 2013, he sponsored a motion to abolish the ''

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'' electoral law and return to the previous ''

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'' law on an interim basis. Opposed by then–Prime Minister

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and a majority of the PD, and supported by some 100 deputies of

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(SEL) and the

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(M5S), the motion failed, but it prepared the field for the 2015 electoral law reform under Letta's successor Matteo Renzi. In January 2016 Matteo Renzi asked Giachetti to present his candidacy to

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. He accepted and won the party

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in March with a 64.1% result, beating

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, Stefano Pedica and others. Backed by the PD, Greens, IdV, Radicals and other minor parties, Giachetti secured 24.87% of the vote in the first round of the 2016 mayoral election; in the runoff vote, he gathered almost 33%, and lost to M5S candidate

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. In the 2017 party leadership election, incumbent secretary Renzi was re-elected; in March, Giachetti joined the second Renzi

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. After being re-elected to the Chamber of Deputies in the 2018 general election, in December of the same year Giachetti announced his candidacy in the 2019 party leadership election on a ticket with fellow Deputy

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. Their electoral platform focused on vindicating the accomplishments of the Renzi and

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, and revive the moderate wing of the party, thus thwarting any attempts at an alliance with M5S or Free and Equal (LEU). On 3 March 2019 Giachetti placed third in the contest with a 12% result, after incumbent secretary

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(22%) and President of Lazio

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(66%). In September 2019, Giachetti left the Democratic Party and joined

, the liberal party founded by Matteo Renzi.

Personal life

Giachetti was married to

journalist Giovanna Reanda. Now divorced, they have two children, Giulia and Stefano.

References

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