11 Facts About Roberto Calderoli

Roberto Calderoli was born on 18 April 1956 and is an Italian politician and a member of the Senate of the Republic.

Roberto Calderoli was a Minister without portfolio for Legislative Simplification in the Berlusconi IV Cabinet.

Roberto Calderoli previously served as Minister without portfolio for Reforms and Devolution in the Berlusconi II Cabinet and in the Berlusconi III Cabinet.

Roberto Calderoli is serving as minister of Regional Affairs and Autonomies in the Meloni Cabinet since 2022.

Roberto Calderoli was an MP in the Chamber of Deputies between 1992 and 2001, as a representative of the Northern League-Padania, and for a while he was president of the Commission for Social Affairs.

Roberto Calderoli then became the vice-president of the Senate until July 2004, when he was appointed Minister for Institutional Reforms in the place of Umberto Bossi, the longtime leader of the Northern League who had suffered a serious stroke and could not perform his duties.

Successively, Roberto Calderoli himself criticized the electoral law he wrote by defining it una porcata.

Roberto Calderoli is currently serving as secretary of Lega per Salvini Premier.

Actually, Roberto Calderoli did not show one of the cartoons that caused the international crisis.

Subsequently, Silvio Berlusconi asked Roberto Calderoli to resign because his act was against the government's political line; in an interview given to Italian newspaper La Repubblica, Roberto Calderoli declared that he would not resign.

Roberto Calderoli eventually gave in to the massive pressure coming from all parties, and resigned on 18 February 2006.