10 Facts About Basilio Giordano

Basilio Giordano was born on February 3,1952 and is an Italian and Canadian politician and journalist.

Basilio Giordano was a city councillor in the Montreal, Quebec borough of Saint-Leonard from 1982 to 1990 and served in the Italian Senate from 2008 to 2013, representing Italian voters in North and Central America as a member of Silvio Berlusconi's People of Freedom party.

Basilio Giordano was a political aide to Saint-Leonard mayor Michel Bissonnet from 1978 to 1980 and continued to work for Bissonnet after the latter's election to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 1981.

Basilio Giordano was elected to the Saint-Leonard city council in 1982 as a member of mayor Antonio di Ciocco's Equipe du renouveau de la cite de Saint-Leonard.

Basilio Giordano was re-elected under the new party's banner in 1986.

Basilio Giordano become the editor of Il Cittadino Canadese, a community journal for Montreal's Italian community, in 1986.

Basilio Giordano ran as a Vision Montreal candidate for the amalgamated Montreal city council in the 2001 municipal election.

Basilio Giordano was elected to the Italian Senate in the 2008 general election, representing Italian voters in North America and Central America.

Basilio Giordano served on the foreign affairs committee and the committee for Italians living abroad, and was a supporter of Silvio Berlusconi's government until its resignation in 2011.

Basilio Giordano was defeated in his bid for re-election in the 2013 Italian election, when Berlusconi's list finished third in North America and Central America.