Guido Crosetto

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Early life and education

Crosetto was born into a family of entrepreneurs in Cuneo, [1] in the Italian region of Piedmont, on 19 September 1963. [2] [3] [4] At a young age, he took over the family business, which produced agricultural machinery, later expanding his business to other sectors, including real estate and tourism. [3] After finishing high school, Crosetto attended the Faculty of Economics and Commerce at the University of Turin between 1982 and 1987 but never graduated following his father's death, and could not finish his studies in Economics and Business at the University of Turin. [1] [5] During his time at the University of Turin, Crosetto met future politician Paolo Rosso. [6] In the past, the official website of the Chamber of Deputies and the Italian Wikipedia wrongly reported that Crosetto had completed his studies and had a degree ( laurea ). [1] [5] In 2013, he said that he had been silly for having told a "little, innocent lie". [7]

Political career

Mayor of Marene

Crosetto began his political career as a member and regional secretary of the youth wing of the DC, [3] [4] and in 1988, at age 25, he became the economic advisor to Giovanni Goria, [8] who at that time was Prime Minister of Italy. [3] He was a member of the DC's left-wing like fellow Piedmontese Fabrizio Palenzona. [9] Elected by the city council in 1990 as an independent candidate within the civic list Together for Marene and re-elected in 1995 and 1999 with the support of the centre-right coalition, Crosetto served for three terms as mayor of Marene, a small village near Cuneo where he lives, from 28 May 1990 to 14 June 2004. [10] [b]

During the 1990s, Crosetto was a critic of the Mani pulite judges in the Tangentopoli scandal, recalling in his 2025 autobiography that "the rift between law and jurisprudence began: it doesn't matter what the code provides, what the law says, but what a judge thinks and how he decides to interpret the law at his own discretion. This extremely dangerous trend still leads to convictions for invented crimes ... A true disgrace to the law. The fact remains that, at that time, the judiciary also became a key player in the selection of the Italian business class." [11]

In 1999, Crosetto ran for the presidency of the province of Cuneo as an independent candidate close to the centre-right coalition but lost to the centre-left coalition fellow former DC member Giovanni Quaglia. [12] [13] He was provincial councilor of Cuneo from 1999 to 2009, [14] serving as group leader of FI, [3] [4] the centre-right political party founded by the billionaire and media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi and member of European People's Party (EPP). [15] He chaired the Conference of Mayors of the Savigliano-Saluzzo-Fossano ASL from 1993 to 1997. [14]

Chamber of Deputies

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Crosetto as a member of the Chamber of Deputies in 2001

In the 2001 Italian general election, Crosetto was elected to the Chamber of Deputies under FI for the single-member district of Alba, Piedmont, gaining 49% of votes, and was re-elected in subsequent years. [3] [4] From 2001 to 2006, he served on a series of parliamentary committees, including the Permanent Committee on Budget, Treasury, and Planning, the Committee of Inquiry into the Serbian Telekom Affair, the Committee for the General Direction and Oversight of Radio and Television Services, and the Committee for the Oversight of Deposits and Loans Fund. [4]

Crosetto was first re-elected in the 2006 Italian general election. [3] From 2003 to 2009, he was the Piedmont regional coordinator for FI and the party's national director for credit and industry until the founding of the PdL. [16] For the 2008 Italian general election, Crosetto joined Berlusconi's new party, the PdL, with which he was elected again to the Chamber of Deputies. [3] [4] He served as Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Defence in the fourth and final Berlusconi government from 2008 to 2011. [3] [4] After completing his term as undersecretary, Crosetto was appointed to the Committee on Foreign and European Affairs and subsequently to the Committee on Budget, Treasury, and Planning. [4] In October 2012, due to incompatibility with his parliamentarian role, he resigned as president of GEAC, the company managing the Cuneo International Airport. [17] On 14 November 2012, he was awarded the Gold Medal of Merit of the Italian Red Cross. [4]

Following Berlusconi's resignation in November 2011, Crosetto criticised the formation of the technical government led by pro-austerity economist Mario Monti. [18] [19] Starting in July 2011, he had already begun to strongly challenge the decisions of the then economy minister Giulio Tremonti and the Berlusconi government, including Claudio Scajola, [20] [21] [22] and distinguished himself for his outspokenness and independence. [14] During 2012, he became increasingly critical of the PdL, disagreeing with Berlusconi's return to the political scene and the PdL's position toward the Monti government. [14] On 19 July 2012, Crosetto was among the few members of the Italian Parliament to vote against the ratification of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM). [23] [24] [25] The other members to vote against were a fellow PdL member (also against the party line) and Northern League (LN) members in the Chambers of Deputies, while the LN senators and two other senators, one from the PdL and one from the Italy of Values (IdV), voted against the treaty in the Senate of the Republic. [26]

Brothers of Italy

In December 2012, Crosetto left the PdL and co-founded FdI, [3] [4] a national conservative party, originally named Brothers of Italy – National Centre-Right (Fratelli d'Italia – Centrodestra Nazionale), [14] in opposition to the PdL and the Monti government, with Meloni and La Russa. [27] [28] Upon its founding, FdI was referred to as representative of the anti-Monti right-wing. [18] From 20 December 2012 until 4 April 2013, when he was succeeded by La Russa, Crosetto served as president of FdI, [29] and acted as national coordinator of the party, [3] [4] which remained an ally but alternative of Berlusconi and the PdL. [30] As the leading candidate for the Senate of the Republic in Piedmont, [14] Crosetto strongly criticised the candidates of the PdL. [31] He failed to be elected in the 2013 Italian general election because FdI votes did not exceed the electoral threshold set at 3% by the electoral law known as Porcellum and only elected candidates in the first-past-the-post voting. [32] [33] In November 2013, he said that he would not be electoral allies with Berlusconi and Angelino Alfano. [34]

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Crosetto and Giorgia Meloni at a FdI rally in 2014

Crosetto ran in the 2014 European Parliament election in Italy but was not elected because once again FdI votes did not exceed the threshold set at 4% for European elections in Italy. [35] [36] On the same day, Crosetto ran in the 2014 Piedmontese regional election as the FdI candidate for president of Piedmont, [37] and ran alone outside the centre-right coalition led by Berlusconi's FI, stating that Piedmont had been "sacrificed to Berlusconi's troubles". [38] The regionalist LN led by Matteo Salvini was allied with FI against FdI, supporting Gilberto Pichetto Fratin's candidacy. [39] In the election, which was won by Sergio Chiamparino of the centre-left coalition, Crosetto finished in fourth place, gaining 5.2% of votes. [39] Following these electoral defeats, Crosetto retired from politics in September 2014. [35] Without Crosetto, FdI was led by Meloni, who moved the party further to the right and built closer ties to Salvini's party, which eventually became the right-wing populist League (Lega) as part of a more right-wing-led and oriented centre-right coalition. [40] [41] [42]

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Crosetto in 2018

Crosetto returned to politics when the deputy and fellow Cuneo native Daniela Santanchè, a right-wing businesswoman and former member of the PdL and the new Forza Italia (FI) in Lombardy, joined Meloni's FdI in December 2017. [43] Crosetto and Santanchè represented the small and medium-sized enterprises of northern Italy, where they ran as FdI's candidates in the 2018 Italian general election. [44] They became respectively members of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate of the Republic because the party's electoral support increased, [45] [46] [47] with FdI candidates being elected across multiple regions, [48] [49] and were among the four members from Cuneo to be elected (the others were Emma Bonino and Laura Ravetto). [50] surpassing 4.3% of votes at the national level for the first time. [51] [52] After his election as deputy, Crosetto was a member of the Budget, Treasury, and Programming Commission. [4] He was also rumoured as a possible Minister of Defence in the Government of Change between Lega and the Five Star Movement (M5S), with Crosetto appreciating the positive views both parties held of him but stating that his candidacy would have only made sense in a clear political alliance. [53]

In December 2018, Crosetto's speech to the Chamber of Deputies during the approval of the 2019 budget law was applauded and went viral, [54] even earning the "comrade" (compagno) label by La Repubblica . Crosetto later commented: "You've heard speeches like the one in the Chamber before; when I lambasted Berlusconi, when I clashed with Tremonti or Scajola, when I voted against the fiscal compact. The paths are varied, but one tries to maintain consistency." [22] On 15 March 2019, Crosetto's seat was taken by the first candidate on the list of non-elected at the 2018 general election, the businesswoman and FdI member Lucrezia Mantovani. This was because he had resigned on 13 March 2019 to continue his business career, [2] [3] although the resignation process proved difficult and it was only accepted after a third attempt. [55] Crosetto said that he would not leave politics. [56] In April and May 2019, as non-candidate spokesman of the party, Crosetto helped Meloni in the campaign for the 2019 European Parliament election in Italy. [57] FdI, which joined the European Parliament as a member of European Conservatives and Reformists Group (ECR), [15] increased its electoral support, surpassing 6.4% of national level votes for the first time. [51] [52]

Minister of Defence

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Crosetto during the swear-in cerimony of the Meloni government

In the 2022 Italian presidential election, which was held in January, Crosetto was the second most voted candidate with 114 votes, the double of FdI's 63 grand electors, [58] in the third ballot. [59] [60] La Russa said that originally they had proposed Carlo Nordio but ultimately chose Crosetto out of respect and to reflect FdI's political power within the centre-right coalition. [61] In July 2022, a snap election was called after the 2022 Italian government crisis, which brought to the fall of the national unity government of Mario Draghi opposed by FdI, stating before the call for a snap election that he was not afraid of the ballot box. [62] Crosetto said that this was as a result of Draghi's political inexperience, which negatively affected him, and that the governing coalition was torn up. [63] He said that if FdI was to become the largest party of the centre-right coalition, it would remain faithful and would not affect regional governments, explicitly citing as example the regional government of Alberto Cirio of FI in Piedmont. [64]

In a record-low voter turnout election in September 2022, [65] FdI became the largest party in the country, gaining more than 26% of votes and the centre-right coalition won a clear majority in both houses of the Italian Parliament. [66] [67] In ten years, the party he helped to found had started from 2% and reached 26% to became the most voted party. [68] Although he did not run in the 2022 Italian general election, Crosetto campaigned for FdI and Meloni, [69] [70] [71] who became the first woman to serve as Prime Minister of Italy, especially to politically convince fellow entrepreneurs in northern Italy. [72] He was among the first to comment on the results, stating: "The data speaks for itself: Italians have decided to put their trust in Giorgia Meloni. Not all of them, but a large portion." [73] He added that he was not worried about Lega and FI being under 10%, stating the coalition had "held up and is a coalition legitimised by the result and this is no time for political games". [73] He also said that he would not be part of the new government, which he expected to be the government of the best of the centre-right coalition. [74] He was rumoured to be appointed Minister of Economic Development. [75]

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Crosetto with Italian President Sergio Mattarella in 2023

On 22 October 2022, Crosetto was appointed Minister of Defence in the Meloni government. [16] [76] As a result, he was also appointed Chancellor and Treasurer of the Military Order of Italy. [4] At the same time, in response to concerns about any possible conflict of interest, he announced he had "already resigned as director of every private company (I don't hold any public ones) that I (legitimately) owned. I will liquidate all my companies (all legitimate). I am giving up 90% of my current income." [72] [75] As defence minister, amid divisions within the centre-right coalition and in contrast to the pro-Russian views of Salvini and Lega, [77] Crosetto became one of the most vocal supporters of Ukraine in the Russo-Ukrainian war. [78]

In February 2023, Crosetto stated that the Ukrainian resistance was "a battle for freedom, a battle for international law, a battle for Europe". [79] Moreover, he added that the NATO military support to Volodymyr Zelenskyy's government prevented the break out of World War III, which would have been inevitable if "Russian tanks reached Kyiv". [80] Due to his statements, Crosetto became the target of attacks from members of the Russian government and elite. [81] Former president Dmitry Medvedev labeled him as "foolish", while Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of the Wagner Group, heavily insulted him. [82] On 15 March 2023, the Italian newspaper Il Foglio reported that the Wagner Group put a €15 million bounty on Crosetto. [83] In June 2023, Crosetto reiterated Italy's support for Ukraine amid further bombing from Russia while calling for a diplomatic solution. [84]

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Crosetto with Lloyd Austin in 2025

During his ministry, Crosetto often criticised the migration policies promoted by Germany and its chancellor Olaf Scholz, [85] [86] [87] saying that he would have expected from Germany more "assistance and solidarity" with Italy in its "moment of difficulty" as it coped with the rise of immigrants within the country. [88] In May 2024, he criticised Israel's actions during the Rafah offensive in the Gaza Strip. [89] After a few days, he expressed opposition to the use of Western-supplied weapons for attacks inside Russia and stressed the need to "leave open the possibility of negotiating an immediate truce and initiating peace talks in the coming months." [90]

On 10 October 2024, Israeli troops opened fire at three UNIFIL positions in South Lebanon, including UNIFIL's main base at Naqoura, in the area of responsibility of the Italian contingent. [91] The attack damaged communication systems between the base and the UNIFIL command in Naqoura. [92] [93] Crosetto described the attack as a "possible war crime" and urgently summoned the Israeli ambassador to Italy over the events that occurred at the UNIFIL bases, where Italian personnel operate. [94] [95] [96] He also contacted Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for a discussion and a formal protest asking for guarantees on the safety of Italian personnel and UNIFIL bases. [97] [98] On 31 May 2025, Crosetto said like "all Italian governments, we are friends of Israel" but that Israeli raids in Gaza City were unjustified and that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "must stop them: this is how the spiral of hatred grows". [99]

Political profile

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Crosetto with Mattarella on National Unity and Armed Forces Day in 2022

Due to his height and size, reported to be 1.96 m (6 ft 5+1⁄4 in) and around 110 kilograms (240 pounds; 17 stone 5 pounds), [9] Crosetto entered Italian popular culture through Internet memes about comparisons with the Marvel Comics character Kingpin and The Iron Giant , and was referred to as "The Giant of Marene" (il gigante di Marene), [8] and also as "The Good Giant" (il gigante buono). [100] A 2012 photo of him ("The Giant of Marene") holding Meloni ("The Child of the Oppian Hill") in his arms, known as "The Giant and the Child", [101] became a classic of the iconography of the Melonian refoundation. [102] [103]

Crosetto is seen as a moderate and mediator, [104] [105] outspoken but not aggressive, and partisan but also bipartisan, [102] who did not grow up in far-right politics like other FdI members and co-founders, [75] earning him some support on the left. [106] He defined himself as "conservative by birth, respectful by choice". [107] Within a context that saw FdI rise from 4.3% to 6.5%, overtaking FI in late 2019 polls with 10% to become the second party of the centre-right coalition, [51] and some polls showing support as high as 15% in July 2020, Crosetto described FdI as "a boring party, it always says the same things" but did not use it as a negative, elaborating: "Parties today are faltering. Those who vote for Brothers of Italy must make a greater effort because they don't follow trends. They can't say 'I like their position on this issue,' but it will always be a position they have today, had yesterday, and had five years ago." [52]

In contrast to those who saw FdI as a return of the right or argued that it could represent the true right, Crosetto did not see it entirely that way, stating in 2020 that "Brothers of Italy is the heir of the right, but it's something more. The ideal outcome is a party with those values but with a broader policy, a mass conservative party." [52] In this sense, Crosetto saw FdI more as a conservative mass party akin to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) rather than a right-wing one like the then National Front (FN) led by Marine Le Pen. [52] Crosetto is a supporter of Meloni's new conservatism, stating in 2020: "The evolution of the historic Italian right has been crucial to ensuring that the centre-right has had the opportunity to move beyond mere testimony. Meloni, in this phase, has the task of reconciling the old values of the right with the new way of being conservative. The term conservative, in the noble sense, applied to Meloni, is something real. On the one hand, the defence of traditional values and on the other the defence of the welfare state. But an efficient welfare state." [108]

Political views and commentary

Domestic issues

Social and economic policies

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Crosetto during the 2013 electoral campaign

In 2013, Crosetto criticised a homophobic spot by FdI, going as far as to call the two authors coglioni , stating: "Any manifestation of intolerance is unacceptable." [109] In February 2023, he helped to create a centrist electoral list and support FI for the 2024 European elections and secure the continuation of a stable majority in the Italian government. [110] In October 2024, he said that he has friends among the parliamentary opposition and described the Democratic Party (PD) secretary Elly Schlein as a good person. [111] Due to his moderate views, Crosetto was said to represent the left-wing of the right, although he responded that left-wing does not really work as a label for him, who still see himself as a Christian democrat. [111]

Amid the global energy crisis and 2021–2023 inflation surge, Crosetto warned of a civil war if the government did not increase from €12–13 billions to €20 billions in aids, stating in September 2022 that Draghi should not "act offended by the vote of no confidence; take immediate action against high utility bills. If you don't, everything will collapse: businesses and families will be dead by the end of October, beginning of November, when the new government is formed." [112] [113] He warned that "either we get out of the crisis by helping each other, or we will fail". [113] Amid calls within Lega, particularly in Veneto, for further regional autonomy in September 2022, Crosetto said: "The government's primary focus must be on combating the economic crisis and supporting businesses and families during such a difficult time. Autonomy will be achieved alongside presidentialism, already in the first part of the legislature, but not immediately. The economic emergency must be resolved first, and as long as the economic crisis persists, it will be very difficult to talk about anything else. But once the country is secured, then we can truly think about autonomy." [114]

Anti-fascism

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Crosetto with Meloni and Ignazio La Russa in 2014

As a representative of the moderate wing of FdI, Crosetto is open to the possibility of the tricolour flame, which is reminiscent of the party's neo-fascist origins through the Italian Social Movement (MSI), to be removed from the party logo. [115] In January 2019, this caused an uproars among other party members. [115] Owing to his moderate and Christian-democratic origins, Crosetto is an anti-fascist. [111] Unlike many FdI members and other members of the centre-right coalition who refuse to use the label because they associate it with the left, so much so that Crosetto himself observed that he is not well liked by the right as a result. [111] [116]

In February 2018, in response to Roberto Speranza's comments about the anti-fascist demonstration in Rome and the lack of presence by FdI ("You should have been in the square tomorrow. I'm sorry you're not there; it's a serious mistake"), Crosetto responded from Piedmont, stating: "If I were in Rome, if I weren't in my homeland engaged in a difficult election campaign, I'd be with you. So I authorise you to say that I'm with you, as national coordinator of Brothers of Italy." [117] His comments were criticised from the right, [118] including by fellow party member Pasquale Viespoli. [117]

Unlike other Meloni ministers, including Meloni herself, when pressed during a 2024 interview, Crosetto explicitily said: "I always have been [an anti-fascist]. ... I always have been. ... I'm an anti-fascist." [111] In response to fascist chants heard at the FdI youth headquarters of Parma in November 2025, Crosetto said that they should be "taken and kicked out", and added that they do not represent FdI. [119] [120]

Referendums

Having voted against the reform in the Italian Parliament, Crosetto said that he would vote "no" in the 2020 Italian constitutional referendum, in contrast to the "yes" of FdI, [121] elaborating: "I can accept a reduction within the framework of an institutional reform that changes the powers of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate and perhaps introduces presidentialism. However, always with the intention of giving representation to the local areas. If we do it this way, we have to reduce them because they are ugly and evil and parliament is useless... that doesn't seem like a justification to me." [122] Asked on whether he would vote in the 2025 Italian referendum, as the government parties called for an abstention vote in order not to reach the required 50% turnout quorum, Crosetto expressed his negative views of trade unionist and CGIL secretary Maurizio Landini, stating: "I'll decide whether to vote on 8 June. But I confess to an old prejudice: if Landini says one thing, I feel like doing the opposite. Always." [123]

European Union

In May 2014, as a candidate for the European Parliament, Crosetto said in relation to illegal immigration that to seriously address the issue there would need "a Europe that doesn't exist", stating that "Europe must address the unjust fate of entire African peoples. It's clear that Italy alone isn't enough. Thinking that this is an Italian issue and can be resolved by three Italian navy ships is foolish." [124] In September 2022, Crosetto said: "The government does not represent a coalition but a nation; Europe cannot avoid dialogue ... the European Union has internal contradictions, but it can do anything except engage in dialogue with nations." [125] During the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy, while supportive of COVID-19 vaccines, Crosetto was critical of the Green Pass on the grounds that it was discriminatory, stating: "You can't go to restaurants, but you can go on the bus and subway. What's the point?" [126]

Regarding the most controversial points that emerged during the 2022 election campaign, namely the changes to the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) as part of Next Generation EU, Crosetto said that "no one wants to revise the PNRR guidelines, but from the time of the forecast to today, the cost of the works has increased by 20 percent." [125] In relation to the postponement of "the CO2 problem for one or two years", he cited Alessandro Manzoni from The Betrothed ("I think Manzoni's phrase in The Betrothed is valid: 'Adelante, con juicio si puedes' (Go ahead, with judgment you can)", adding that "we can't pretend that nothing has changed" since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the green agenda was "developed with different economic conditions", and that postponing the issue for a few years would not ruin the European Green Deal. [125]

In an interview with the Corriere della Sera on 26 June 2023, Crosetto commented on the Meloni government's hesitation to ratify the reform of the treaty establishing the ESM. [127] Four days earlier, the Chamber of Deputies' Foreign Affairs Committee had approved the basic text of the bill for ratification; the parties supporting the government did not participate in the vote. [127] According to Crosetto, "we need to discuss among ourselves how necessary Europe is as a tool and how we in the centre-right see it as a coalition and as a government. We need to discuss the advantages and disadvantages, without prejudice." [127] He expressed his view that those who have sought help from the ESM "have been crushed". [127] In an interview with La Repubblica on 5 July 2023, Crosetto declined Salvini's proposal of signing a pact between the centre-right coalition parties in favour of a right-wing coalition in the European Parliament between the EPP, ERC, and Identity and Democracy (I&D), stating that his party's European project is to form an alliance between the EPP and ERC, opening the way to a new "Ursula majority". [15] In relation to Le Pen's renamed National Rally (RN), he said: "We belong to another group and we are different, as is well known. And it's a choice we made many years ago." [128]

Foreign issues

Ukraine and Russia

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Crosetto signing a Pentagon guest book prior to a bilateral exchange in Washington, D.C., on 23 June 2023

As minister of defence, Crosetto expressed pro-Ukrainian views. In January 2023, he said: "World War III would begin the moment Russian tanks arrived in Kiev and at the borders of Europe. Preventing them from arriving is the only way to stop World War III." [129] He also stated: "I am experiencing this period with great personal difficulty. I am seen as the one who supports weapons, the one who wants war. There is this strange idea that there is a country we don't care about, which is bothering us. That by being at peace, it is forcing us to do things we shouldn't do, that it is that country's fault if inflation rises. That country has been invaded." [129] To Russia, he said: "There is no angel or Devil, we are not passing judgment. No one has anything against the Russian people, there is no war between Italy, Europe, NATO, and the Russian people: there is an international coalition that is helping a country that has been attacked. We must do this, and we are doing it to prevent a crisis that began in a crazy way from exploding." [129]

In March 2023, Crosetto said: "It seems to me that we can now say that the exponential increase in migration from the African coast is also, to a considerable extent, part of a clear hybrid warfare strategy that the Wagner Group, mercenaries in the pay of Russia, is implementing, using its considerable influence in some African countries." [130] [131] In the 125-page paper "Countering Hybrid Warfare: An Active Strategy" published in November 2025, Crosetto condemned the Russian hybrid war and lamented the lack of actions from the European Union (EU) and NATO, writing: "The hybrid war is continual and attacks critical infrastructure, decision-making centers, essential services and the fabric of each country, with daily and growing risks of catastrophic damage. We are under attack and the hybrid bombs continue to fall: The time to act is now." [132]

China, Europe, and the United States

In July 2023, Crosetto criticised the Belt and Road Initiative, stating: "The decision to join the Silk Road was an improvised and ill-advised move by Giuseppe Conte's government, which led to a double negative outcome. We exported a shipment of oranges to China, and they tripled their exports to Italy in three years." [133] In August 2025, Crosetto stated that "Italy is a great nation, but we all know it doesn't play in the superpower league" and that the present EU "doesn't exist as a state. ... It has no weight because it can't compare to the US or Russia." [134] As a result, Crosetto suggested that the Italian government should draw the consequences and work towards the federalisation of the EU and make it a state. [135]

In December 2025, Crosetto published a long post on X (formerly Twitter), expressing his views about the second Trump administration's relations with this "small, slow, and old" Europe as President Trump made it clear that he does not need Europe and that they see themselves in competition for supremacy and superpower status with China, stating: "The trajectory of American politics was evident even before the arrival of Trump who only accelerated an irreversible path." [136] He further wrote: "The bad news is that we should (in my opinion, we should) think about what our American allies have provided us, free of charge, up to now: security, defence, and deterrence. I'm not just talking about military ones." [136] As a result, he called for a series of reforms "not to exercise supremacy over anyone but to guarantee our future". [136]

Israel and Palestine

On the issue of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, Crosetto is a supporter of the two-state solution, defending Palestine's right to exist and statehood and Israel's right to live in security, which means that "Hamas terrorism must be eradicated at the same time." [137] On the Gaza war, Crosetto represented the more critical views of Israel's handling of the war within the Meloni government, which was more supportive of Israel, placed caveats to Palestinian statehood, [138] and refrained from criticism and the use of strong words by Crosetto, [139] [140] who earned the praise of some parliamentary opposition figures, such as Alessandra Maiorino of the M5S. [141]

In May 2024, Crosetto expressed the feeling that "Israel risks sowing hatred that will involve its children. I understand the reaction after the Hamas massacre of 7 October, but Hamas is one thing, the Palestinian people are another." [142] In May 2025, while reiterating that the Italian government remained a friend of Israel, he claimed to have been "the first to distance myself from Netanyahu's actions". [99] He also said that Hamas must be "fought and destroyed", but that it "no longer makes sense to do it with military methods now: we need other methods. The international community can no longer accept the casualties of civilians, women, and children: they are not tolerable collateral damage, Israel must understand this. As for the truce, Hamas is doing this because it is not interested in casualties. It uses bombs and hunger to recruit." [99]

In relation to the 2025 Italian protests for Gaza, particularly the June 2025 demonstration, Crosetto said: "Look, I wouldn't mind going. To demonstrate for every civilian, woman, and child killed in Gaza. If I went, though, you'd see the level of tolerance in the square... Half of them, self-proclaimed pacifists, will be there only to fuel hatred against the government and against certain individuals. Meloni, Tajani, and Crosetto first and foremost." [99] In an interview with La Stampa in August 2025, as reported among others by Adnkronos, Crosetto said that the Israeli government had "lost its sanity and humanity", [143] elaborating: "What is happening in Gaza is unacceptable. We are not facing a military operation with collateral damage, but the pure denial of the law and the founding values of our civilisation. We are committed to humanitarian aid, but beyond condemnation, we must find a way to force Netanyahu to think. It's one thing to free Gaza from Hamas, another from the Palestinians. The former can be called liberation. Expelling a people from their land, however, is quite another." [144] [145] In September 2025, Crosetto announced the dispatch of a frigate, the Virginio Fasan , to support the Global Sumud Flotilla, [146] explaining that "in a democracy, even demonstrations and forms of protest must be protected, when they are conducted in compliance with international law and without resorting to violence." [147]

Personal life

Marriage and family

In 2005, Crosetto began a relationship with Gaia Saponaro, [148] a former volleyball player from Apulia who worked in London, Hong Kong, and Sydney, [149] [150] whom he married on 4 July 2015. [151] Together, they had two children. [152] [153] Previously, Crosetto was married to a volleyball player from the Czech Republic, with a son born in 1997. [153] In September 2023, Crosetto criticised Novella 2000 , which is controlled by Visibilia of Santanchè, for having published photos of him with his wife. [154] [155] In 2024, he was reported to be the richest minister of the Meloni government with €895.588. [156] In 2025, Crosetto published Storie di un ragazzo provinciale (Stories of a Provincial Boy), his autobiography. [3] [157] [158] Also in 2025, he was a victim of false impersonation as scammers, who posed as Crosetto, attempted to defraud at least ten prominent businessmen, and were able to obtain two bank transfers connected to oil tycoon and former Inter Milan owner Massimo Moratti. [159] [160] [161]

His nephew Giovanni Crosetto entered politics in 2021 and followed his moderate and anti-fascist politics within FdI. [162] [163] For example, in relation to the apology of fascism, he condemned the commemorations of the Acca Larentia killings with the fascist salute. [164] In the 2024 European Parliament election in Piedmont, Crosetto's nephew was elected to the European Parliament, [165] with around 34,000 preferential votes in the North-East Italy constituency, of which 19,643 in Piedmont, where he was the only elected candidate to the European Parliament. [166]

Charity and other businesses

Crosetto is involved in CRT Foundation, [167] a charity organisation, being described as a "close friend of the foundation", [168] which he prevented from going into administration. [9] With Carlo Petrini, he was one of the founders of the Pollenzo Agency and the University of Gastronomic Sciences. [14] In September 2014, Crosetto left his political commitment and was appointed for some years president of the Federation of Italian Companies for Aerospace, Defence, and Security (AIAD) of Confindustria, [3] [4] and in the same year became Senior Advisor to Leonardo S.p.A. [169] [170] In April 2020, he was appointed chairman of Orizzonte Sistemi Navali, a company created as a joint venture between Fincantieri and Leonardo S.p.A., which operates in the naval engineering and systems sector, designing and building military naval units, in particular corvettes, frigates, and aircraft carriers. [16] [171] [172] Crosetto was also a shareholder in six Italian companies, including CSC & Partners, which was founded in 2021 in Rome and operated in lobbying services. [13] Since becoming defence minister in 2022, he sold all his companies and left all incompatibility and business-related roles. [72] [75]

Health issues

On 5 August 2021, Crosetto announced that he healed from the Delta variant of COVID-19, which aggravated his tumor condition, stating: "I had two doses of Pfizer. The second on 11 April. After months, with antibodies, I contracted the Delta variant. I was very ill. Since I have diabetes and a heart condition, they gave me monoclonal antibodies. I recovered." [5] In February 2024, Crosetto was hospitalised due to a suspected pericarditis, sparking unfounded conspiracy theories by anti-vaccine activists. [173] In October 2025, he underwent surgery, which successfully removed three colonic neoplasms. [174] [175]

Social media

Crosetto is active on social media, often interacting with his followers and commentators, at times engaging in diatribes with his critics who insult him, in turn referring to them as coglioni, "shitty haters", and "ignorants". [176] In April 2019, Crosetto wrote of his family on Twitter: "I have a 22-year-old son, Alessandro. He attends LUISS. He's a good boy, he studies, and he'll soon finish his undergraduate degree, well and on time. They accepted him into the master's program. Then I have a 5-and-a-half-year-old daughter and a 4-year-old son. She, Carole, is a real earthquake." [5] Crosetto is an anti-communist but expressed respect for communists like Marco Rizzo for being open about it, elaborating in a 14 May 2019 post on Twitter: "There's a real communist out there. He wants to leave NATO, he's inspired by Lenin, he promises to expropriate banks, real estate owners, and nationalise everything! Dear Marco Rizzo, you'll never have my vote, but real communists are better than disguised ones." [177]

In August 2021, Crosetto defended singer Emma Marrone from death threats as a result of her progressive and left-leaning views and the announcement that she had ovarian cancer and wanted to be a single mom. [5] Crosetto wrote on Twitter: "There are people so ignorant and dangerous that they bother to insult, wish death upon, and exult over a person who confesses to her illness, Emma Marrone, just because they have different political views. Life, health, and death are ABOVE these petty human divisions, damn it." [5] In September 2025, his Twitter account was hacked, with suspicious tweets asking for cryptocurrency donations for Gaza and the funeral of Giorgio Armani. [178] [179]

Association football

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Crosetto in 2013

Like fellow Meloni ministers Antonio Tajani and Elisabetta Casellati, [180] [181] Crosetto is a supporter of Juventus. [182] [183] In his 2025 autobiography, Crosetto wrote that he was a friend of Edoardo Agnelli (formerly groomed to be the heir of the Agnelli family, which also owns Juventus since 1923) and that he did not believe he committed suicide. [11] In July 2006, amid the Calciopoli scandal, he was open to the idea of an amnesty, which polarised Italian politics, with supporters and opponents across the political spectrum. [184] For example, Piero Fassino of The Union, the centre-left coalition that had just defeated Berlusconi's, invoked the clemency of the judges, who had been appointed by the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) special commissioner Guido Rossi, and this was not unprecedented as an amnesty was issued under similar conditions in 1982. [184]

Crosetto shared the principle that tifosi should not pay for the mistakes of football directors, commenting: "The law should punish the responsible managers but leave Italians the chance to dream with their champions and their teams." [184] Although many commentators and tifosi saw the scandal more as a result of the widespread anti-Juventus sentiment rather than politics, Crosetto also criticised the Calciopoli decisions by the FIGC on political grounds, arguing that the salvation from relegation for all the other clubs initially involved had been a political decision, particularly that of Fiorentina, and compared the sports proceedings to the Gestapo. [185] Crosetto said: "I wouldn't want only those who have friends in The Union, like Fiorentina, to be acquitted." [185]

In line with the view of most Juventus supporters, many critics and commentators, and the club itself that Juventus received unequal treatment, Crosetto referred to Fiorentina because it was saved from relegation despite being sanctioned with a direct Article 6 violation (warranting relegation) and multiple Article 1 violations (like the other clubs who were ultimately not relegated), while Juventus was controversially relegated to Serie B due to three Article 1 violations (usually warranting fines or penalty points), with the sports decisions explicitly citing the "popular sentiment" (sentimento popolare). [186] In 2010, the controversies prompted a proposal of a parliamentary inquiry commission about the 2003–2006 Italian football years and the role of politics and the media in the 2006 scandal and the Calciopoli bis developments in subsequent years. [186] Although such a proposal was supported by members of various parties across the political spectrum, including among others the centre-left PD, the centrist Italian Radicals (RI), and Crosetto's centre-right party, a parliamentary commission was never established. [186]

Crosetto in 2014 Guido Crosetto a Sanremo per la campagna elettorale per le Elezioni europee del 2014.JPG
Crosetto in 2014

Amid the club's unsuccessful spell in the early 2020s after an unprecedented run of nine Serie A league titles in a row, Crosetto expressed criticism of the squad performances under then head coach Massimiliano Allegri. [187] During the 2022 Italian presidential election, he joked that he would rather be president of the Juventus Club in Parliament. [188] In March 2024, in his role as defence minister, Crosetto issued a complaint, [189] which resulted in an investigation revealing the illegal dossiering and spying of bank accounts of around 740 VIPs and political figures, including not only Crosetto himself among other politicians and entrepreneurs, [190] but also Juventus (the only Italian football club to be victim of the alleged illegal spying, with the other football figure being FIGC president Gabriele Gravina), [191] [192] [193] in particular the figures of Andrea Agnelli, Allegri, and Cristiano Ronaldo dating back to at least 2021. [194] [195] [196]

Crosetto's complaint and the resulting investigation earned the attention of the Anti-Mafia Commission and the magistrate Raffaele Cantone from Perugia, where Pasquale Striano, the investigated financier who allegedly made over 800 illegal accesses to the files within the scope of approximately 5,000 database accesses carried out since 2018 and claimed to have done so due to legitimate reasons for investigation, worked as an agent (rank of official) of Italy's Judiciary Police (Polizia Giudiziaria). [189] Dating back to 2018, leaks to the media resulted in the Luis Suárez affair and later in 2021 to a financial scandal involving Juventus, which also received threats due to its support for the ultimately failed European Super League project, causing several commentators to wonder whether there was any connection, if there was one or more instigators, and if the goal was to specifically and negatively hit Juventus. [193] The Anti-Mafia Commission public prosecutor Giovanni Melillo described the alleged facts, resulting from Crosetto's complaint, as "hardly compatible with the logic of individual deviation" and spoke of "extreme gravity". [189]

Electoral history

Guido Crosetto
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Crosetto in 2021
Minister of Defence
Incumbent
Assumed office
22 October 2022
ElectionHouseConstituencyPartyVotesResult
2001 Chamber of Deputies Piedmont 2 – Alba FI 45,225Yes check.svgElected
2006 Chamber of Deputies Piedmont 1 FI – [c] Yes check.svgElected
2008 Chamber of Deputies Piedmont 1 PdL – [c] Yes check.svgElected
2013 Senate of the Republic Piedmont FdI – [c] X mark.svgNNot elected
2014 European Parliament North-West Italy FdI 29,305X mark.svgNot elected
2018 Chamber of Deputies Lombardy 3 FdI – [c] Yes check.svgElected

Notes

  1. ↑ Resigned from office
  2. ↑ In the comune of Marene, the office of mayor (sindaco) before 1995 was elected by the city council (indirect election) without term limits. After 1995, the mayor began to be elected by citizen (direct election) with term limits (only two consecutive terms). Before 1995, the term of the mayor of Marene was five years, and from 1995 to 1999 was four years; after 1999, the term became five years.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Elected in a closed list proportional representation system

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