Afragola
Afragola (; nap, Afrahola , ) is a city and ''comune'' in the Metropolitan City of Naples, in Italy. It is one of the 100 largest Italian cities (the ones that have a population of more than 63,000 inhabitants).
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) is an Italian politician. A member of
Together for the Future
Together for the Future ( it, Insieme per il Futuro, IpF) was a centrist political party in Italy, which was active mainly as parliamentary group. Its founder and leader was Luigi Di Maio. All of its parliamentary members were elected for the Five ...
(IpF) and a former member of the
Five Star Movement
The Five Star Movement ( it, Movimento 5 Stelle , M5S) is a political party in Italy. Its leader and president is Giuseppe Conte, Prime Minister of Italy from 2018 until 2021. The M5S was founded on 4 October 2009 by Beppe Grillo, a comedian an ...
(M5S), he served as Minister for Youth Policies in the
Conte
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* Conte, the title of Count in Italy ...
government between 2019 and 2021.
Early life and career
Vincenzo Spadafora was born on 12 March 1974 in Afragola. After graduating from high school, he moved to
Rome
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, where he began to work with
UNICEF
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. After various humanitarian experiences in the field of Non-Governmental Organizations, in 2008 he was appointed president of UNICEF Italia, a position he held until 2011.
He began his political career in 1998 as private secretary of the President of the Campania Region Andrea Losco (
UDEUR
The Union of Democrats for Europe ( it, Unione Democratici per l'Europa, UDEUR), also known as UDEUR Populars (''Popolari UDEUR''), was a minor centrist, Christian-democratic political party in Italy.
Led by Clemente Mastella, minister of Labour ...
). He also worked in the Secretariat of the
Greens
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led by
Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio
Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio (born 13 March 1959) is an Italian politician, lawyer and journalist. He served as Minister of Agriculture in the second cabinet of Giuliano Amato and as Minister of Environment in the second cabinet of Romano Prodi.
Bor ...
and in 2006 he became head of the secretariat under
Francesco Rutelli
Francesco Rutelli (born 14 June 1954) is an Italian journalist and former politician, who is the president of '' Anica'', National Association of Film and Audiovisual Industry, since October 2016.
He also chairs the "Centro per un Futuro Sosteni ...
at the Ministry of Cultural Heritage.
On 29 November 2011, he was appointed ''First guarantor for children and adolescents'' by the President of the Chamber
Gianfranco Fini
Gianfranco Fini (born 3 January 1952) is an Italian politician who served as the president of the Italian Chamber of Deputies from 2008 to 2013. He is the former leader of the far-right Italian Social Movement, the conservative National Allianc ...
and the President of the Senate
Renato Schifani
Renato Maria Giuseppe Schifani (; born 11 May 1950 .) is an Italian politician who has served as the . An exponent of the right-wing coalition parties, he was criticized by his political allies for his support to the rights of the homosexual civil unions and particularly for the homosexual adoptions both at a singular and political level.
In 2014 he published the book ''La terza Italia. Manifesto di un Paese che non si tira indietro'' (The Third Italy. Manifesto of a country that does not hold back).
Subsequently, he joined the staff of
Luigi Di Maio
Luigi Di Maio (; born 6 July 1986) is an Italian former stadium beverage vendor and politician. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2019 to 2022, as Deputy Prime Minister of Italy and Minister of Economic Development, Labour and Soci ...
, of which he became responsible for institutional relations. In 2018 he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in the uninominal constituency of
Casoria
Casoria (; nap, Casòria) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Naples in the Italian region Campania, located about northeast of Naples.
Casoria borders the following municipalities: Afragola, Arzano, Cardito, Casalnuovo d ...
, with the 59.4% of the vote.
Minister and undersecretary
On 12 June he was appointed Undersecretary for the Presidency of the Council of Ministers with responsibility for equal opportunities and young people in the first government of
Giuseppe Conte
Giuseppe Conte (; born 8 August 1964) is an Italian jurist, academic, and politician who served as Prime Minister of Italy, prime minister of Italy from June 2018 to February 2021. He has been the president of the Five Star Movement (M5S) sin ...
. In July 2019, he was involved in the approval of the Italia
bill
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named "Codice Rosso" which enforced guilties for the crimes of
stalking
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and
sexual violence
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, forbid
forced marriage
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s and also introduced the penal prosecution for the revenge porn and female facial injuries. Since 2019, Spadafora has been actively engaged in the approval of a national law against
homophobia
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and
transphobia
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. In 2021, he publicly came out as gay.
After Conte's resignation in September 2019, the national board of the
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(PD) officially opened to the possibility of forming a new cabinet in a coalition with the M5S, based on pro-Europeanism,
green economy
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,
sustainable development
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, fight against
economic inequality
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and a new immigration policy. On 29 August President
Sergio Mattarella
Sergio Mattarella (; born 23 July 1941) is an Italian politician, jurist, academic and lawyer who has served as the president of Italy since 2015.
A Christian leftist politician, Mattarella was a leading member of the Christian Democracy par ...
formally invested Conte to form a new cabinet. On 5 September, Spadafora was sworn in as Minister for Youth Policies and
Sport
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.
In February 2021, Conte resigned after losing the support of the centrist party
Italia Viva
Italia Viva (, IV) is a liberal political party in Italy founded in September 2019. The party is led by Matteo Renzi, a former Prime Minister of Italy and former secretary of the Democratic Party (PD).
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Matteo Renzi started ...
. On 13 February,
Mario Draghi
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became the new prime minister at the head of a national unity government, but Spadafora was not confirmed in the cabinet.
Personal life
On 7 November 2021, during
Fabio Fazio
Fabio Fazio (; born 30 November 1964) is an Italian television presenter. After debuting in 1982, he presented many TV programs, including ''Quelli che... il Calcio'', ''Vieni via con me'' and ''Quello che (non) ho''. Since 2003, he presents the ...
's talk-show ''
Che tempo che fa
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It has been broadcas ...
'', Spadafora came out as
gay
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While scant usage referring to male homosexuality dates to the late 1 ...