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29-680: A police investigation by Rome's chief prosecutor Giuseppe Pignatone revealed a network of corrupt relationships between some politicians and criminals in the Italian capital, which attracted international attention. It led to a request of 37 arrests. The criminal actions took advantage of the recent influx of immigrants to Italy, gaining public contracts to manage migrant reception centres. The criminal organization also used its connections to secure lucrative public contracts, before accepting payments for substandard or, sometimes, non-existent services. Among those investigated are former mayor Gianni Alemanno and

58-435: A 4% election threshold before a party gained any seats, and a majority bonus of (at least) 340 seats for the winning coalition, the total votes for each coalition being the sum of the votes of those coalition parties which had won at least 4% of the national votes. The new proposal was approved by parliament. An electoral survey published on September 15, 2005 by the national left newspaper La Repubblica claimed that, with

87-557: A brawl that broke out during a protest against the USSR. Despite being sentenced to eight months in Rebibbia Prison , he was subsequently acquitted. Alemanno became national secretary of the youth organization of the party in 1988. After being elected regional deputy of Lazio in 1990, he was elected for the first time to the Chamber of Deputies in the 1994 general election . In 1995 he joined

116-444: A proportional electoral law; nevertheless, they declared they were against an electoral reform by this parliament, because the current law would be changed too close to the 2006 general election. The Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi had previously been a strong supporter of the plurality-based electoral law; in 1995, talking about his coalition, he even defined the plurality principle as "our religion". A modified version of

145-472: Is a marginal event I could not verify the legal requirements because it was not about my election campaign." On 18 December 2015, he was indicted for corruption and illicit financing. According to the accusation, Alemanno received €125,000 from the cooperatives' boss Salvatore Buzzi. On 7 February 2017, the allegation of an external cooperation in a mafia association was filed, including the allegations of corruption and illicit funding. In February 2019 Alemanno

174-514: Is an Italian politician who from April 2008 until June 2013 was mayor of Rome for The People of Freedom . He was the secretary of the National Movement for Sovereignty from 2017 to 2019. At an early age Alemanno joined the neo-fascist /post-fascist Italian Social Movement , and although arrested three times he was never convicted. The first arrest took place in Rome on 20 November 1981, when he

203-450: The " Mattarellum ", (from Sergio Mattarella ), the most common name for the previous Italian electoral law (there is a recent custom to nickname new electoral systems by a somewhat Latinised version of the name of the lawmaker; another one is the system used in regional elections, the so-called " Tatarellum " from Pinuccio Tatarella ). Notably, some smaller opposition parties, such as Communist Refoundation Party and UDEUR , support

232-520: The 2006 mayoral election of Rome , in April 2008 he defeated Francesco Rutelli and became Mayor of the city. Alemanno rejected a formal alliance with the far-right party, but his critics emphasized that his victory was greeted by crowds of supporters, among them far right skinheads , who chanted " Duce ! Duce! " and raised their arms in a fascist salute ; then Alemanno said: "People calling me Duce make me laugh. I’m not at all fascist and I think that today

261-656: The Berlusconi government. The Italian Premier, after some hesitation, then presented to the President of the Republic a request for the dissolution of his government on 20 April 2005. On 23 April he formed a new government with the same allies, reshuffling ministers and amending the government programme. A key point required by the Union of Christian and Centre Democrats (and to a lesser extent by National Alliance ) for their continued support

290-640: The Romans to the mayor Alemanno rose to 60% in January 2009. In February 2009 Alemanno conferred honorary citizenship to Dalai Lama , leader of the Tibetan government-in-exile . In July 2009, Alemanno conferred honorary citizenship to captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit . Other important measures of the Alemanno Administration were: an ordinance against prostitution in the streets, an attempt to recapitalize

319-481: The bosses Salvatore Buzzi and Massimo Carminati , a former member of Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari and Banda della Magliana , as well as members of the 'Ndrangheta . A 1,200-page arrest warrant was issued in December 2014, and was followed by dozens of arrests. Among those investigated and arrested of the government of the city were the president of Rome's city council, the head of the city's public-housing division, and

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348-536: The constitutional reform, and then for the new voting system, on condition that the 4% cut-off were not repealed. This proposal of law was strongly questioned by the opposition coalition, who defined it an "attempted coup". Opposition leader Romano Prodi said it was "totally unacceptable". Several newspapers politically oriented to the left nicknamed the electoral system proposal by the House of Freedoms as " Truffarellum ", after " truffa " ( Italian for " fraud ") and

377-492: The couple had been "very careless" by camping in an area "forgotten by God and man" where camping was illegal. Alemanno said that the attack was an isolated case, and repeated that he wanted to crack down on crime, regaining total control of the territory. In November 2008, Alemanno decided to build a museum dedicated to the memory of the Holocaust in a Roman park. The leader of Rome's Jewish community , Riccardo Pacifici, praised

406-543: The first proposal, this time with a 2% threshold for entering Parliament and without vote of preference for candidates, but still without the support of the opposition, was presented to the Chamber of Deputies. The voting count started on October 11; the lower house of Italian parliament then approved the electoral reform on October 14. The new electoral was then eventually approved on December 16, 2005, and countersigned by President Ciampi on December 23, 2005. Roberto Calderoli ,

435-400: The former president of Ostia . On 18 December 2015, Alemanno was indicted for corruption and illicit financing. According to the accusation, Alemanno received €125,000 from the cooperatives' boss Salvatore Buzzi. On 7 February 2017, the allegation of an external cooperation in a mafia association was filed, including the allegations of corruption and illicit funding. On 20 July 2017, Carminati

464-460: The initial proposal of electoral reform become law, the House of Freedoms would win the next elections 340-290, even if they won only 45% of votes and the opposition coalition The Union won 50%, because the Union also includes several small parties with less than 4% of national votes. This could have been avoided if the small opposition parties ran on a common ticket. Aim of this bill of reform was to reduce

493-482: The mayor for this project. Alemanno is the son-in-law of Pino Rauti , a former leader of the Italian Social Movement . He always wears a necklace with a Celtic cross . He stated he wears it only as a religious symbol and because of a personal meaning for him, being a jewel worn by his friend Paolo di Nella , a far-right militant who had been killed during the 1970s Anni di Piombo . The approval of

522-517: The municipal company AMA redefining its role, the census and the dismantling of six camps for nomads (including the Casilino 900) setting up garrisons, thus ensuring immunizations and education for Romani children, and to expel illegal immigrants. In August 2012 was approved the "family quotient", introduced by Alemanno to balance the waste charge according to economic situation, number of components, and any health burdens, of Roman families. Among

551-676: The newly formed National Alliance party, which succeeded the Italian Social Movement following its repudiation of extremism at the Congress of Fiuggi in the 1994. Together with Francesco Storace , he founded Social Right , a national- and social-conservative faction within National Alliance. Between 2001 and 2006, Alemanno was Minister of Agriculture under Silvio Berlusconi (in Berlusconi's 2nd and 3rd cabinets). After having been heavily defeated by Walter Veltroni in

580-468: The number of parties, and particularly the moderate Left would have taken advantage in respect to the smaller radical left parties. The Union of Christian and Centre Democrats, commenting on the proposal, asked for the abolition of the 4% cut-off clause, whereas the National Alliance did not show any favour to this attempt of reform, with its leader Gianfranco Fini claiming to want first to vote for

609-604: The other coalition parties, whose electoral results were more satisfactory, asked Berlusconi and Forza Italia for greater influence in the government's political line. In the 2005 regional elections (3-4 April 2005), the centre-left gubernatorial candidates won in 12 out of 14 regions where control of local governments and governorships was at stake. Berlusconi's coalition kept only two of the regional bodies ( Lombardy and Veneto ) up for re-election. Three parties, Union of Christian and Centre Democrats , National Alliance and New Italian Socialist Party , threatened to withdraw from

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638-698: The projects of Alemanno as a mayor was the construction of a tourist amusement park dedicated to ancient Rome . In 2004 to encourage and patronage the Italian Mountaineering Expedition and Delegates bound for K2 he arrived Pakistan for participation in celebration of K2 Golden Jubilee ceremony at Concordia base camp. The Alpine Club of Pakistan marked a friendship expedition headed by Hayatullah Khan Durrani as chief of Pakistan National mountaineering team to represent Pakistan in Golden Jubilee ceremony of k2 mount. In late 2014, Alemanno

667-554: The second cabinet of the XIV Legislature. House of Freedoms did not do as well in the 2003 local elections as it did in the 2001 national elections . In common with many other European governing groups, in the 2004 elections of the European Parliament , gaining 43.37% support. Forza Italia's support was also reduced from 29.5% to 21.0% (in the 1999 European elections Forza Italia had 25.2%). As an outcome of these results

696-449: The word belongs to the history books. I’ve grown to hate all forms of totalitarianism, whether of the left or of the right". In August 2008, Alemanno ignited controversy over immigration and the status of Romani people in Italy, when a group of Romani men attacked a Dutch couple that had been camping outside Rome. The couple were beaten and robbed and the woman was raped. Alemanno stated that

725-623: Was accused (along with four others) of intimidating a 23-year-old student, Dario D'Andrea, who was hit on the head by Sergio Mariani, then secretary of the Fronte della Gioventù (the youth organization of the Italian Social Movement). Mariani was sentenced, while Alemanno was acquitted. The second time was in 1982, when Alemanno was accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail at the Soviet Union embassy. According to other sources, his arrest followed

754-474: Was investigated in the 2014 Rome corruption scandal , involving an external cooperation in a mafia association. On 23 March 2015 he was indicted along with seven other people due to an alleged illicit funding received for the Lazio regional elections of the 2010 that would have been masked by a false poll in favor of Renata Polverini 's list. Alemanno says: "I have never called for or received unlawful financing, this

783-515: Was sentenced to 20 years in jail, along with other various sentences of his associates. On 11 September 2018, Carminati was sentenced to 14 years and six months on appeal, with Buzzi sentenced to 18 years and four months. The events of the Mafia Capitale investigation are the basis for the 2015 film Suburra , as well as the 2017 TV series Suburra: Blood on Rome . Gianni Alemanno Giovanni " Gianni " Alemanno (born 3 March 1958)

812-520: Was sentenced to six years in prison for corruption and illicit financing in the Mafia Capitale trial. After the sentence, Alemanno resigned as secretary of the National Movement for Sovereignty . Berlusconi III Cabinet The third Berlusconi government was the cabinet of the government of Italy from 23 April 2005 to 17 May 2006. It was the 58th cabinet of the Italian Republic, and

841-419: Was that the strong focus on tax reduction central to the government's ambitions be changed. During this second cabinet was also approved a new electoral law. A white paper for a proportional-only electoral system was presented to the Chamber of Deputies on September 13, 2005, only seven months before the 2006 general election. This reform, strongly backed by the Union of Christian and Centre Democrats , proposed

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