1. Lorenzo Fontana previously served as Minister of Family and Disability from 1 June 2018 to 10 July 2019, and as Vice-President of the Chamber of Deputies from 29 March to 1 June 2018.
15 Facts About Lorenzo Fontana
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Lorenzo Fontana is the Deputy Federal Secretary of Lega under the leadership of Matteo Salvini.
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Lorenzo Fontana graduated in political science at the University of Padua, in Christian history at the European University of Rome and in philosophy at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas.
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Lorenzo Fontana is a fervent traditionalist Catholic and regularly attends the Tridentine Mass.
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Lorenzo Fontana was re-elected to the 2014 European Parliament election in Italy, gaining 27,240 votes and becoming a member of the European Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and of the Delegation for Relations with Iraq.
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At the 2018 Italian general election, Lorenzo Fontana was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for the multi-member constituency of Veneto 2.
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Lorenzo Fontana was appointed Minister of Family and Minister for Disabilities.
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On 10 July 2019, Lorenzo Fontana was appointed Italy's Minister of European Affairs.
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Lorenzo Fontana calls himself a "crusader" who fights against abortion, euthanasia, same-sex civil unions, and stepchild adoption, which he considers as a "weakening of the family".
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Lorenzo Fontana was considered an admirer of Putin until the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
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Lorenzo Fontana reiterated that his positions are aligned with NATO and the EU, following the latest voting decisions of the Lega - ID group in the European Parliament.
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Lorenzo Fontana opposes illegal immigration to Italy, claiming it to be a serious threat that "aims to erase the Italian people along with their communities and traditions", along with "gay marriages and the so-called gender theory in schools".
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Lorenzo Fontana was a member of the European Parliament when his party entered the European group ENF with Marine Le Pen's Front National.
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Lorenzo Fontana has been one of the main protagonist of what he defined the "historical alliance" between Matteo Salvini and Marine Le Pen.
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In 2018, Lorenzo Fontana wrote with Ettore Gotti Tedeschi the book The Empty Cradle of Civilization.