12 Facts About Angelino Alfano

Angelino Alfano was the first and only secretary of the centre-right party The People of Freedom from 2011 to 2013.

Angelino Alfano is the first Italian politician to have held the offices of Minister of Justice, Minister of the Interior, and Minister of Foreign Affairs, which are considered among the most important ministries in the Cabinet of Italy.

Angelino Alfano was born in Agrigento, Sicily, on 31 October 1970; his father, Angelo Angelino Alfano, was a lawyer and local politician for the Christian Democracy, who held the position of deputy mayor of Agrigento.

In 1996, Angelino Alfano was the youngest member elected to the Sicilian Regional Assembly.

The so-called Lodo Angelino Alfano, named after him, was a piece of legislation in force between 2008 and 2009 that granted immunity from prosecution to the four highest political offices in Italy.

The Lodo Angelino Alfano was declared unconstitutional by the Italian Constitutional Court in October 2009.

On 1 June 2011 Angelino Alfano was appointed Political Secretary of the People of Freedom by party President Silvio Berlusconi in order to reorganise and lead it in the next election.

On 19 July 2013, the Italian Senate voted a confidence vote on Angelino Alfano, promoted by Five Star Movement and Left Ecology Freedom, after the expulsion from Italy of the wife and the daughter of Mukhtar Ablyazov, a Kazakh dissident, approved by Angelino Alfano.

In November 2013, Angelino Alfano broke with his mentor Berlusconi: He and other People of Freedom ministers, known as "doves", were strong supporters of Enrico Letta's government and refused to join the new Forza Italia, founded upon the dissolution of the PdL by Berlusconi.

Angelino Alfano was appointed, by the new Prime Minister and by President Mattarella, new Minister of Foreign Affairs, succeeding Gentiloni.

However, in December 2017, Angelino Alfano officially announced that he would not participate anymore in the 2018 general election, as his party was deeply split between following the center-left of Renzi, which they were currently supporting in the government, or the center-right of Berlusconi, which had been their original roots.

Angelino Alfano is married to Tiziana Miceli, a civil lawyer.