Willer Bordon (16 January 1949 – 14 July 2015) was an

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academic, businessman and politician who served in different cabinet posts at the end of the 1990s and 2000s.

Early life

Bordon was born in

Muggia Muggia ( vec, label=Venetian, Triestine dialect, Muja; german: Mulgs; fur, Mugle; sl, Milje) is an Italian town and ''comune'' in the south-west of the Province of Trieste, in the region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia on the border with Slovenia. Lying ...

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, on 16 January 1949.

Career

Bordon was the mayor of Muggia for eleven years. In 1987, he was elected to the

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, being a deputy for Trieste. He founded Democratic Alliance, a small centre-left party, in 1992. He resigned from the party in June 1994 following the poor achievement in the general election. Later he joined the Margherita party. From 1998 to 1999 he served as the minister for public works. He was appointed minister of environment to the cabinet led by

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in April 2000. Bordon replaced Edo Ronchi as minister of environment. Bordon also served as the member of the Italian Senate. In 2008 Bordon retired from the Senate. After leaving politics, he became the president of the Enalg SpA. In addition, he also began to work as a professor of

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Death

Bordon died at the age of 66 on 14 July 2015.

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