Piero Fassino

Piero Fassino
19th Mayor of Turin
Incumbent
Assumed office 16 May 2011
Preceded by	Sergio Chiamparino
Minister of Justice
In office 25 April 2000 – 11 June 2001
Prime Minister	Giuliano Amato
Preceded by	Oliviero Diliberto
Succeeded by	Roberto Castelli
Minister of Trade
In office 21 October 1998 – 25 April 2000
Prime Minister	Romano Prodi
Preceded by	Augusto Fantozzi
Succeeded by	Enrico Letta (Industry, Commerce and Craftsmanship)
Personal details
Born	7 October 1949 Avigliana, Italy
Political party	Democratic
Spouse(s)	Anna Maria Serafini
Religion	Roman Catholicism

Piero Franco Rodolfo Fassino (born October 7, 1949 in Avigliana, Piedmont) is an Italian politician with the Democratic Party, the current Mayor of Turin and a former national secretary of the Democrats of the Left party.^[1]

Biography

Piero Fassino was born in Avigliana (province of Turin), in a traditional socialist family.

He graduated in Political Sciences and later registered with the Youth Communist Federation of Turin in 1968, becoming their secretary three years later.

In 1975 he was elected as Member of the City Council of the Piedmont regional capital, a position he remained in for ten years. From 1985 to 1990 he held a position as Provincial Councillor, also in Turin.

He was also secretary of the provincial Italian Communist Party (PCI) federation of Turin from 1983 to 1987, when he was elected as member of the National Secretary's Office of the party, first as the Secretary's Office Coordinator, then as Responsible of Organization, during the period where the party was transformed from the PCI into the Democratic Party of the Left (PDS).

From 1991 to 1996 he was International Secretary of the new party; his first election to the Chamber of Deputies (the lower house of the Italian parliament) was in 1994. Re-elected in 1996, he was appointed in 1998 as Minister for Foreign Commerce in the government headed by Massimo D'Alema. From 2000, he was Minister of Justice in the Giuliano Amato government.^[1]

Candidate as vice-premier of The Olive Tree coalition in a ticket with former Rome Mayor Francesco Rutelli for the 2001 general elections in Italy won by the House of Freedoms rival coalition, he was still re-elected as a Member of Parliament.

In 2001, during the National Party Congress of the Democrats of the Left, he was elected as secretary (a position of leader in Italian political parties). He was then re-elected in February 2005, during the party congress.

He received the America Award from the Italy-USA Foundation in 2010.

He is married to Anna Maria Serafini, who was elected in Italian Senate (the second chamber of the Italian parliament) in 2006.

External links

• Fassino proclaimed mayor

References

1. Prodi Clears Final Hurdle as Deficit Pressures Mount May 11, 2006, Bloomberg L.P.. Accessed 15 April 2009. Archived 15 April 2009.