Vittorio Sbardella (8 January 1935 – 26 September 1994) was an Italian politician, who was a member of the Italian

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for

Democrazia Cristiana Christian Democracy ( it, Democrazia Cristiana, DC) was a Christian democratic political party in Italy. The DC was founded on 15 December 1943 in the Italian Social Republic (Nazi-occupied Italy) as the ideal successor of the Italian People's ...

(Italian Christian Democracy) from 1987 until few months before his death. He was nicknamed ''Lo Squalo'' ("The Shark").

Biography

Sbardella was born in

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. During his youth, he was a member of a far-right movement, and later was a member of the

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(MSI, a post-fascist party). Later he moved to the Nuova Repubblica movement led by

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. In the early 1970s he entered Democrazia Cristiana (DC). He became a member of the regional council of the

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, and from 1983 to 1986 Sbardella was regional secretary of DC in the Lazio. He was also editor of the weekly ''Il Sabato'' (translated, "Saturday"). In 1987 he was elected to the

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with 125,000 votes, and was reconfirmed in the 1992 elections. Sbardella was a member of the ''corrente'' (movement inside DC) led by

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, but left it after the assassination of

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in 1992. Lima had connections with mafia, and was allegedly killed due to Andreotti's recents actions as Prime Minister against the Sicilian

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. Sbardella was involved in the

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bribery scandal in the early 1990s. He died of lung cancer in Rome in 1994.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sbardella, Vittorio 1935 births 1994 deaths Politicians from Rome Deaths from lung cancer in Lazio Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Italy) Christian Democracy (Italy) politicians Italian Social Movement politicians 20th-century Italian politicians