Francesco Rutelli
Italian politician
Francesco Rutelli (born 14 June 1954) is an Italian journalist and former politician who is the president of ANICA National Association of Film and Audiovisual Industry since October 2016 and re-elected for the 2020–2022 term, plus ANICA Servizi. He is the legal representative of MIA (Italian Audiovisual Market). He also chairs the Centro per un Futuro Sostenibile (Centre for a Sustainable Future), a bipartisan think tank on climate change and environmental issues).
Rutelli was for 15 years co-president of the European Democratic Party, a centrist European political party. He has been Mayor of Rome 1994–2001, and president of the centrist party Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy 2002–2007. He was the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Culture and Tourism in the second cabinet of Prime Minister Romano Prodi 2006–2008. He also chairs Incontro di Civiltà (Civilizations Meeting); Videocittà, Moving Images Festival (Rome, 2018–2019); and Priorità Cultura (Culture First), which gathers outstanding Italian personalities, engaged on Heritage conservation and promotion, contemporary arts, public-private partnership in the many fields of culture.
Biography
Born in Rome, Rutelli entered politics joining the Radical Party, for which he was then elected secretary in 1980, aged 26. With the Radicals, Rutelli championed humanitarian and libertarian policies such as unilateral disarmament, abolition of nuclear power plants, conscientious objection to the compulsory national service, eradication of world hunger, decriminalisation of the use of cannabis. At those times the political action of the Italian Radicals was self-defined as inspired by the Gandhian non-violent movement.
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