22 Facts About Mara Carfagna

Maria Rosaria "Mara" Carfagna was born on 18 December 1975 and is an Italian politician and former showgirl and model.

Mara Carfagna later entered politics and was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for Forza Italia party in 2006.

Mara Carfagna had been named "the most beautiful minister in the world", and was ranked number one on Maxim "World's Hottest Politicians".

Mara Carfagna has been for a while the spokeswoman of the parliamentary group of Forza Italia at Chamber of Deputies.

Mara Carfagna was born in Salerno, where she attended the Liceo scientifico Giovanni da Procida.

Mara Carfagna has been part of the television programs I cervelloni, Vota la voce and Domenica in.

Mara Carfagna entered politics in 2004, and became responsible for the women's movement in the political party Forza Italia.

In September 2008, Mara Carfagna introduced proposal for a new law making street prostitution a crime, with fines for both clients and prostitutes.

Mara Carfagna said that at present in Italy, "as in the great majority of Western countries", brothels and the exploitation of prostitutes by pimps were illegal but prostitution as such was not.

Mara Carfagna has participated in many international conferences, met the UN Secretary General, has intervened four times to the General Assembly, where she promoted an international moratorium against FGM.

Mara Carfagna organized the first international conference on violence against women in the context of the G8, which was held in the city of L'Aquila, in Italy, in July 2009.

In 2010 during political debate for the International Women's Day celebration Mara Carfagna made a political gaffe, claiming that women gained the right to vote in Italy in 1960 and that the law that rules intrahousehold relationship was reformed in 1970.

In 2011, Mara Carfagna proposed a law, which was passed, that provided quotas for women on the boards of companies, which has allowed to involve a larger number of women in the Italian economic system.

That same year Mara Carfagna supported a bill against homophobia, in which homophobia was considered as an aggravating circumstance in bullying events.

In November 2018, on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, Mara Carfagna launched a campaign called "Non e normale che sia normale" involving many parliamentarians of all political parties, VIPs and personalities of sport and entertainment.

On 13 February 2021, Mara Carfagna returned to a ministerial role in the cabinet of Mario Draghi, as Minister for the South.

Mara Carfagna has been vocal on certain issues, such as the level of crime in her home town of Salerno, after having herself been the victim of burglary on three occasions.

In 2007 Mara Carfagna opposed gay marriage, and said that matrimonial rights should be tied to reproduction.

In May 2010, during the Quirinal Palace ceremony on the occasion of International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, Mara Carfagna publicly apologized for the statements she made two years earlier, saying "she was helped in breaking through the wall of mistrust of which she was at the same time victim and unconscious responsible".

In January 2007, Mara Carfagna was at the center of a controversy that received international attention.

Mara Carfagna herself has later described the comment as "gallant and harmless," and said that she did not quite understand Lario's reaction.

Mara Carfagna has been engaged since 2013 with Alessandro Ruben, a former deputy of Future and Freedom.