Massimiliano Ferrari, better known as Max Ferrari (born 29 May 1971) is an Italian journalist and politician.

Biography

Ferrari was born in Varese. He joined Lega Nord party in 1989 when he was just sixteen. In the 1998 when TelePadania (the Television of Lega Nord Party) was founded he was called to lead a television program about foreign policy, after he became the director of the TG-Nord (the television journal of TelePadania) from 12 October 2002 until 10 April 2006 and in various special occasions (such as in Serbia, Kosovo, Palestine, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and Iraq

Iraq

Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....

 during the U.S. invasion) he has been a freelance war reporter.

Ferrari left the Lega Nord in 2006, in order to found the separatist party named Fronte Indipendentista Lombardia, which later joined Lega Padana of Roberto Bernardelli in order to build a new autonomist lombard party Lombardia Autonoma then he ran for 2009 European Parliament election

European Parliament election, 2009 (Italy)

European elections to elect 72 members of the European Parliament representing Italy were held on Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 June 2009, as decided by the Italian government on December 18, 2008...

 in the Pole of Autonomy

Pole of Autonomy

The Pole of Autonomy is an heterogeneous electoral coalition of political parties in Italy, formed in the run-up to the 2009 European Parliament election in order to overcome the 4% threshold introduced in the electoral law in February 2009...

 list.

In April 2010 he returned in the Lega Nord of Umberto Bossi

Umberto Bossi

Umberto Bossi is an Italian politician, leader of the Northern League, a party seeking autonomy or independence for Northern Italy. He is married to Manuela Marrone and has four sons ....

.