Giuseppe "Pino" Pisicchio (born 23 May 1954) is an Italian politician, journalist, essayist and professor.

Biography

Pino Pisicchio graduated in law with honors from the University of Bari. A member of the

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, first in the current of

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and then in left-wing current of

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, Pisicchio was elected for the first time to the Chamber of Deputies in 1987, with about 80,000 preference votes, and was re-confirmed also in 1992. He served as Undersecretary for Finance in the first Amato Government and then as Undersecretary for Public Works in the

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. In 1997 he joined

Italian Renewal Italian Renewal ( it, Rinnovamento Italiano, RI) was a centrist and liberal political party in Italy. The party was a member of The Olive Tree and centre-left coalition, while also affiliated to the European People's Party from 1998 to 2004. ...

, of which he was National Coordinator. In 1999 he elected to the European Parliament and joined the Group of the European People's Party - European Democrats, holding the positions of Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Budgets and of the Delegation to the EU-Maghreb Joint Parliamentary Committee. In 2001 he was re-elected to the Chamber among the ranks of

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, in which Italian Renewal had merged. In 2006 he joined the

Italy of Values Italy of Values ( it, Italia dei Valori, IdV) is a populist and anti-corruption political party in Italy. The party was founded in 1998 by former ''Mani pulite'' prosecutor Antonio Di Pietro, who entered politics in 1996 and finally left the par ...

and was re-elected to the Chamber of Deputies. Re-elected again to the Chamber in 2008, he became Vice President of the Committee for Elections. In November 2009 he left the IdV because, in his opinion, political line of the party was increasingly shifted towards radical antagonism. Consequently he joined the

Alliance for Italy Alliance for Italy ( it, Alleanza per l'Italia; ApI) was a centrist political party in Italy. The party, which was described in its manifesto as "democratic, liberal, popular" as opposed both to " right-wing populism" and the " social-democratic ...

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 ...

. In 2013 he was re-elected Deputy with the Democratic Centre, becoming president of the

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of the Chamber of Deputies. On 26 June 2014 he left the Democratic Centre, following the disappointing result in the European elections of the same year.Centro diviso, Pisicchio fuori da CD: ‘Storia chiusa alle Europee’
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Pisicchio, Pino 1954 births Living people 20th-century Italian politicians 21st-century Italian politicians Christian Democracy (Italy) politicians Italian Renewal politicians Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy politicians Italy of Values politicians Alliance for Italy politicians Democratic Centre (Italy) politicians University of Bari alumni