1. Sebastiano "Nello" Musumeci was born on 21 January 1955 and is a right-wing Italian politician.
14 Facts About Nello Musumeci
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Nello Musumeci previously served as president of Sicily from 18 November 2017 until 13 October 2022.
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Nello Musumeci was a Member of the European Parliament for the Italian seat Islands, where he was a member of the Union for a Europe of Nations parliamentary group.
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Nello Musumeci sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Fisheries and its Committee on Industry, Research and Energy.
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Nello Musumeci was born in Militello in Val di Catania, Sicily.
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At the age of fifteen, Nello Musumeci became a member of Giovane Italia, the youth organization of "Italian Social Movement", a neo-fascist and post-fascist political party in Italy.
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Later, Nello Musumeci became one of the founders of the Istituto Siciliano di Studi Politici ed Economici.
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In 1995, Nello Musumeci joined the National Alliance Party and represented the region as a Member of the European Parliament in Brussels.
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Nello Musumeci is the founder and current leader of DiventeraBellissima, a regionalist party of Sicily, after having left National Alliance in 2005 and founded the Sicilian Alliance.
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Nello Musumeci was a substitute for the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, as well as for the delegation to the EU-Turkey joint parliamentary committee.
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Nello Musumeci secured a majority in the regional assembly when his center-right coalition received 36 of 70 seats.
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Nello Musumeci won the election with the support of Silvio Berlusconi, founder of the centre-right party Forza Italia, who campaigned heavily for him in the runup to the election.
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Besides battling crime, Nello Musumeci is grappling with pressing regional issues, including the effects of climate change, as Sicily has been experiencing major weather events that have impacted the coast in Palermo recently.
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Nello Musumeci became a member of the Italian Senate in September 2022, and he serves as Minister for Civil Protection and Sea Policies since 22 October 2022 in the Meloni Cabinet.