- Giancarlo Pagliarini
Giancarlo Pagliarini (born
April 23 1942 ) is an Italian politician.Born in
Milan , he was later elected to theItalian Senate forLega Nord in 1992 and re-elected in 1994, then elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1996 and in 2001. He was Minister of the Budget inBerlusconi I Cabinet in 1994, "President of Padania" in 1996 and floor leader of Lega Nord in the Chamber of Deputies from 1999 to 2001.Before joining the League, Pagliarini worked as accountant and was close to the Radical Party, for its battle in favour of
divorce . Anyway he never joined that party, being only a voter, and so he made his first political experience in the League.Pagliarini is a moderate, sometimes dissenting with the party's social-conservative agenda, a libertarian, especially on economic issues, and a prominent supporter of
fiscal federalism andfiscal conservatism .He was known as maverick politician and, prior to leaving Lega Nord, often criticized the line imposed by
Umberto Bossi . Lately he dissented with the continuation of the alliance with the otherHouse of Freedoms parties, favouring an autonomous path for the League, and flirted with the independentist wing of the party, led byGilberto Oneto , a libertarian himself, and maintained relations with theLiberal Reformers .In
19 January 2007 Pagliarini, who was not candidate for re-election in the 2006 general election, finally left Lega NordFact|date=July 2008. In June he took part to the libertarian network founded byDaniele Capezzone .On
18 January 2008 he unexepectedly joinedThe Right ofFrancesco Storace [http://www.aldorossi.org/la_destra_fed_roma/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=453] and will be a candidate inLombardy in the 2008 general election, despite declaring to be "leghista" in the soul and the mind" [ [http://www.giancarlopagliarini.it/IlVecchioPaglia.aspx Giancarlo Pagliarini - www.giancarlopagliarini.it ] ] .References
External links
* [http://www.giancarlopagliarini.it/ Official website]
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