Benedetto Della Vedova

Benedetto Della Vedova (Sondrio, April 3, 1962) is an Italian politician, the leader of Liberal Reformers, a minor liberal and libertarian party, member of the House of Freedoms coalition.

Biography

His political experience begun in 1994 with the Radicals of Marco Pannella, of whose list (the Pannella List) he had been secretary. He was elected in the European Parliament in 1999 and served as MEP until 2004, when he was the first of the non elected.

From 2001 to 2003, he was president of Italian Radicals.

In 2003 he was the strongest challenge to Daniele Capezzone for the leadership of the Italian Radicals, on a platform based on free-market and the hidden proposal of joining Silvio Berlusconi's House of Freedom's coalition.

In 2005 he launched the Liberal Reformers (with Marco Taradash and Peppino Calderisi), after the Radicals had decided to support Romano Prodi and his centre-left coalition.

He has been elected in the Chamber of Deputies in the 2006 general election under the list of Forza Italia, being the only member of the Liberal Reformers to take part in the newly-elected parliament.

External links

* [http://www.benedettodellavedova.com/ Personal website]