Gianfranco Blasi
Italian politician
Gianfranco Blasi (born 29 May 1958) is an Italian politician, essayist, and poet who was a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 2001 to 2006. A Salesian student, he was raised as a liberal Catholic and was a leader of Christian Democracy (DC), first in the party's youth wing and then at the city and provincial levels. In the 1990s, Blasi served as a regional councillor in Basilicata several times with Forza Italia (FI), the regional section of the party that he helped to co-found in 1994. He was a city councillor in Potenza and a member of Parliament with various roles as a deputy.
In 2003 and 2004, Blasi obtained national and international attention for his opposition to a nuclear waste site in Basilicata and for being wrongly charged in a local judicial investigation. In the late 2000s, he politically distanced himself from Silvio Berlusconi, citing judicial and cultural conflicts, feeling that one should defend oneself at the trial and not from being put on trial. After leaving Forza Italia, Blasi was the co-founder of several minor Southern Italian parties like Italy of the Centre (IdC) and Great South (GS) between 2008 and 2013, when he returned to the new Forza Italia.
In 2014, Blasi joined Brothers of Italy (FdI) and was instrumental in the election of the first centre-right coalition candidate as mayor of Potenza. He continued to be active in centre-right politics until 2018 and subsequently mainly focused on his literary and poetry career, some of which were published in English. In addition to his career as journalist and various roles in several companies, he became a member of the Tiberian Academy.
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