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Carlo Amedeo Giovanardi (Modena

Modena

Modena is a city and comune on the south side of the Po Valley, in the Province of Modena in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy....

, 15 January 1950) is an Italian politician and member of the Parliament..

Political career

He graduated in jurisprudence

Jurisprudence

Jurisprudence is the theory and philosophy of law. Scholars of jurisprudence, or legal theorists , hope to obtain a deeper understanding of the nature of law, of legal reasoning, legal systems and of legal institutions...

, and did his military service in the Carabinieri

Carabinieri

The Carabinieri is the national gendarmerie of Italy, policing both military and civilian populations, and is a branch of the armed forces.-Early history:...

. His political experience began in 1969, when he joined the Christian Democratic Party

Christian Democracy (Italy)

Christian Democracy was a Christian democratic party in Italy. It was founded in 1943 as the ideological successor of the historical Italian People's Party, which had the same symbol, a crossed shield ....

(Democrazia Cristiana).

His first elected position was as a city councillor in Modena

Modena

Modena is a city and comune on the south side of the Po Valley, in the Province of Modena in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy....

, followed by being a Christian Democrat member in the Regional Council of the Emilia Romagna. In 1992 he was elected as a member of the Chamber of Deputies (Camera dei Deputati) and in the successive legislature on the Christian Democrat list. Subsequently he became an exponent (and founder) of the Christian Democratic Centre (Centro Cristiano Democratico).

He has been president of the parliamentary group of the Christian Democratic Centre and vice president of the Chamber of Deputies.

In the 2001 Italian elections he was elected Deputy representing Lecco

Lecco

Lecco is a town of c. 47,760 inhabitants in Lombardy, northern Italy, north of Milan, the capital of the province of Lecco. It lies at the end of the south-eastern branch of Lake Como...

for Silvio Berlusconi's

Silvio Berlusconi

Silvio Berlusconi , also known as Il Cavaliere – from knighthood to the Order of Merit for Labour which he received in 1977 – is an Italian politician and businessman who served three terms as Prime Minister of Italy, from 1994 to 1995, 2001 to 2006, and 2008 to 2011. Berlusconi is also the...

centre-right coalition "House of Freedoms

House of Freedoms

The House of Freedoms , was a major Italian centre-right political and electoral alliance led by Silvio Berlusconi. It was initially composed of several political parties:*Forza Italia *National Alliance...

" (Casa delle Libertà), as part of the Union of Christian and Centre Democrats (Unione dei Democratici Cristiani e Democratici di Centro).

From June 11, 2001 until May 2006, he was Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, in Berlusconi's second and third governments.

In the 2006 Italian general election he became Deputy representing the Veneto

Veneto

Veneto is one of the 20 regions of Italy. Its population is about 5 million, ranking 5th in Italy.Veneto had been for more than a millennium an independent state, the Republic of Venice, until it was eventually annexed by Italy in 1866 after brief Austrian and French rule...

-2 constituency. He is President of the Committee for the Authorizations and President of the Parliamentary Committee for accusation procedures. He is also member of the Institutional Transactions Commission of the Chamber of Deputies.

Carlo Giovanardi and Emerenzio Barbieri are the leaders of one of the four factions in the Union of Christian and Centre Democrats, who want closer ties with Forza Italia and the other parties of the House of Freedoms

House of Freedoms

coalition, including the Lega Nord. In the III National Congress the candidacy of Giovanardi for the leadership was supported by the 13.8% of delegates.

Cremonini case

On Sunday 13 November 2005, a TV program report by Milena Gabanelli on Rai Tre

Rai Tre

Rai 3 is part of RAI, the Italian government broadcasting agency, which owns other channels, such as Rai 1 and Rai 2 . Rai 3 first started transmissions on December 15, 1979. In the eighties it was under the predominant political influence of the Italian Communist Party...

said that the Italian company Cremonini had produced tinned meat that resulted in the death of a 12 year old boy in Moscow because of food poisoning, and that the Cuba

Cuba

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n government had rejected Cremonini tinned meat made in Italy because it was in a bad condition. Carlo Giovanardi commented on the programme saying:

"I was amazed at the way that the Report programme tried to destroy the image of a great Italian company like Inalca of Modena
Modena
Modena is a city and comune on the south side of the Po Valley, in the Province of Modena in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy....

... from the resurrection of the fear that consumers have for the mad cow to the supplies from abroad, from the collapse of other companies to the malicious connection of single episodes, everything has been lumped together to criminalize the companies in the group. The economic and moral damage for the company and for our country risk being incalculable: we’ll have to see who benefits from these programmes, who suggested them and who thinks they will profit financially on the national and international market, by weakening a dangerous competitor that could support world competition."

Radio24 interview

In late December 2005, during an interview on Radio 24, he said "I am not employee of nobody if not of my constituents" and "In democracy everyone answers to his ideas and the constituents who have voted it". This was criticised by commentator Beppe Grillo

Beppe Grillo

Giuseppe Piero Grillo, better known as Beppe Grillo , is an Italian activist, blogger, comedian, actor and politician, who also works in theatres and television.-Biography:Grillo was born in Genoa, Liguria....

because, Article 67 of the Italian constitution, says that "Every member of the parliament represents the nation and exercises its functions without mandate tie".

Drugs legislation

In the January 2006 was approved the "Legge Fini-Giovanardi" (Fini-Giovanardi law), developed with the colleague Gianfranco Fini

Gianfranco Fini

Gianfranco Fini is an Italian politician, President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, leader of the center-right Future and Freedom party, and the former leader of the conservative National Alliance and the post-fascist Italian Social Movement...

, which restricted the use of drugs, especially cannabis

Cannabis

Cannabis is a genus of flowering plants that includes three putative species, Cannabis sativa, Cannabis indica, and Cannabis ruderalis. These three taxa are indigenous to Central Asia, and South Asia. Cannabis has long been used for fibre , for seed and seed oils, for medicinal purposes, and as a...

, and strongly increased punishments also for consumers.

In May 2008, in an interview at the website of the Circles of Freedom, Giovanardi said, contrary to the constitutional provisions guaranteeing freedom of expression of citizens, the intention to introduce a law that prohibits whatsoever anti-prohibitionist rally or event: "We say enough to the drug culture. And in order to do that we want to introduce a rule preventing propaganda, even indirect, to all drugs, including so-called "light drugs" [...] In addition to insist on prevention and education, and to have asked prefects and Quaestors to monitor and act with determination against these irresponsible initiatives, we are committed to find the most appropriate regulatory tools aimed to avoid that propaganda events such as three days in Bologna on hemp can be held freely. "

Dutch euthanasia laws

In a radio program aired on Rai Radio 1, on 17 March 2006 he said, "Nazi legislation and Hitler’s ideas are re-emerging in Europe via Dutch euthanasia

Euthanasia

Euthanasia refers to the practice of intentionally ending a life in order to relieve pain and suffering....

laws and the debate on how to kill ill children." He added that it is eugenics

Eugenics

Eugenics is the "applied science or the bio-social movement which advocates the use of practices aimed at improving the genetic composition of a population", usually referring to human populations. The origins of the concept of eugenics began with certain interpretations of Mendelian inheritance,...

to debate killing children "who are ill or have Down syndrome," and that "We could just as easily apply this to senior citizens." The "Dutch prime minister, called Giovanardi's comments 'scandalous and unacceptable'".

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