Valerio Zanone (22 January 1936 – 7 January 2016) was an Italian politician, who was formerly secretary and president of the

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(''Partito Liberale Italiano''; PLI). He was also a senator for the

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(''Partito Democratico''; PD), and was mayor of

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from 1990 to 1992.

Biography

Zanone was born in

. He graduated in philosophy from the

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. After entering the Italian Liberal Party, he was a regional councillor in

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, and was a member of the

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from 1976 to 1994. In the same year he was first elected as a deputy, Zanone was appointed as national secretary of the PLI, and was later president of the same. In 1985, Zanone was appointed Minister of Ecology in the first Bettino Craxi cabinet, and was Minister of Industry during Craxi's second tenure (1986–87) and Minister of Defence in the Goria and De Mita cabinets (1987–89). He was mayor of Turin for a year and a half (1990–92). After the ''

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'' scandal and the dissolution of the PLI in 1993, Zanone formed a centre-left movement in Piedmont, the Liberal Democratic Union (''Unione Liberaldemocratica''; ULD). Later, he participated in the foundation of the

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coalition, and adhered to

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(''La Margherita''; DL) centre party.

External links

Page at Italian Senate website
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