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Italo Bocchino | |
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Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
In office 9 May 1996 –14 March 2013 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Italo Bocchino 6 July 1967 Naples, Italy |
Political party | MSI (until 1995) AN (1995–2009) PdL (2009–2010) FLI (2010–2013) |
Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) |
Spouse | Gabriella Buontempo |
Alma mater | University of Naples Federico II |
Profession | Politician, journalist |
Italo Bocchino (born 6 July 1967) is an Italian politician and journalist.
Bocchino was born in Naples, and in his youth, he was a member of the Italian Social Movement (a post-fascist formation) and worked as a spokesman for the member of parliament Giuseppe Tatarella, and subsequently as a journalist for Il Secolo d'Italia .
In 1996, 2001 and 2006 he was elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies for National Alliance, the party founded by Gianfranco Fini to replace MSI. In 2005 he was the centre-right candidate for the presidency of the Campania region, but was defeated by Antonio Bassolino. In 2007 he founded Con, a conservative magazine.
Despite having been elected to the Italian Parliament into The People of Freedom lists in 2008, Bocchino in 2010 followed Gianfranco Fini to found Future and Freedom, a centre-right party which aims to counter Silvio Berlusconi's predominance in the Italian right area. Within the party, he is the founder of the Generation Italy movement.