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Oscar Giannino | |
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President of Stop the Decline | |
In office 28 July 2012 –20 February 2013 | |
Preceded by | Office created |
Succeeded by | Silvia Enrico |
Personal details | |
Born | Oscar Fulvio Giannino 1 September 1961 Turin,Italy |
Political party | ALI (since 2013) |
Other political affiliations | PRI (1987–1994) RL (2005–2009) FiD (2012–2013) |
Profession | Journalist,politician |
Oscar Fulvio Giannino (born 1 September 1961) is an Italian journalist and politician. A member of the Liberal Democratic Alliance for Italy (Italian :Alleanza Liberaldemocratica per l'Italia,ALI) since 2013,he is the former president of the free-market-oriented Stop the Decline (Italian :Fermare il Declino,FiD) party.
Giannino was born in Turin,the capital city of the Italian region of Piedmont. He soon started his career as journalist. In 1984,he became a member of the national leadership of the Italian Republican Party (Italian :Partito Repubblicano Italiano,PRI). He was the national secretary (Italian :segretario nazionale) of the party's youth wing from 1984 to 1987,and was the party's spokesperson (Italian :portavoce) from 1987 to 1994. From 2005 to 2009,he was a member of the Liberal Reformers (Italian :Riformatori Liberali,RL). In March 2012,he was a speaker at the national congress of the Grand Orient of Italy in Rimini. [1] [2]
In August 2012,Giannino founded the Stop the Decline party,and in December he announced that he would run to become Prime Minister of Italy (Italian :presidente del Consiglio dei ministri) for the 2013 Italian general election. He stepped down from FiD's presidency (Italian :capo della forza politica) after it was discovered that he had fabricated his résuméby adding false academic claims,such as a law degree in Italy and a master's degree in corporate finance and public finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. [3] The deception was discovered by the party co-founder and Giannino's colleague,Luigi Zingales,who was professor at the Booth School of Business and left the political association. [4]
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