1. Guido Crosetto was born on 19 September 1963 and is an Italian businessman and politician who has served as Minister of Defence since 22 October 2022 in the government of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
17 Facts About Guido Crosetto
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Formerly a Christian-democrat, he served as an undersecretary at the Ministry of Defence, Crosetto was among the founders of the national-conservative Brothers of Italy in 2012, of which he served as president from 21 December 2012 to 4 April 2013.
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Guido Crosetto comes from a family of entrepreneurs from Cuneo, in Piedmont.
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From 28 May 1990 to 14 June 2004, Guido Crosetto served as mayor of Marene, a small village near Cuneo where he lives, for three times.
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In 1999, Guido Crosetto was candidated to the presidency of the Province of Cuneo, as an independent close to the centre-right coalition.
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Guido Crosetto reached the ballot against the outgoing candidate of the centre-left, the former Christian-democrat Giovanni Quaglia, but he lost.
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Guido Crosetto held the office of provincial councilor of Cuneo from 1999 to 2009, holding the position of group leader of Forza Italia, the centre-right political movement member of European People's Party which was founded by the billionaire and media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi and which he joined in 2000.
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Guido Crosetto chaired the conference of Mayors of the Savigliano-Saluzzo-Fossano ASL from 1993 to 1997.
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Guido Crosetto was re-elected in the 2006 election and in 2008 he joined the Berlusconi's new The People of Freedom party, with which he was elected again to the Chamber.
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Guido Crosetto served as Undersecretary of State at the Italian Ministry of Defense in Berlusconi's fourth government from 2008 to 2011.
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In December 2012, he founded Brothers of Italy, a national conservative party in opposition to the PdL and to the Monti government, with Giorgia Meloni and Ignazio La Russa, From 20 December 2012 until 4 April 2013, Guido Crosetto served as president of the party.
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Guido Crosetto returned to politics when the deputy Daniela Santanche, a right-wing businesswoman and former member of PdL and FI in Lombardy, joined Meloni's FdI in December 2017.
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However, Guido Crosetto resigned on 13 March 2019 to continue his business career, and after two days his former seat was assigned to the first candidate on the list of non-elected at the 2018 general election, the businesswoman and FdI member Lucrezia Mantovani.
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Guido Crosetto did not run in the election he campaigned for FdI and its leader, Meloni.
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On 22 October 2022, Guido Crosetto was appointed Minister of Defence in the government led by Meloni herself, who became the first woman to serve as Prime Minister of Italy.
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Guido Crosetto described the attack as a "possible war crime" and urgently summoned the Israeli ambassador to Italy over the events that occurred at the UNIFIL bases, where Italian personnel operate.
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Guido Crosetto contacted Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for a discussion and a formal protest asking for guarantees on the safety of Italian personnel and UNIFIL bases.