Alfredo Biondi
Minister of Justice
In office
10 May 1994 – 17 January 1995
Prime MinisterSilvio Berlusconi
Preceded byGiovanni Conso
Succeeded byFilippo Mancuso
Minister of the Environment
In office
4 August 1983 – 30 July 1984
Prime MinisterBettino Craxi
Preceded byEnstablished office
Succeeded byValerio Zanone
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
5 June 1968 – 24 May 1972
In office
20 June 1979 – 27 April 2006
Member of the Senate
In office
27 April 2006 – 28 April 2008
Personal details
Born(1928-06-29)29 June 1928[1]
Pisa, Italy
Died24 June 2020(2020-06-24) (aged 91)
Genoa, Italy
Political partyPLI (before 1994)
FI (1994–2009)
PdL (2009–2011)
PLI (2011–2014)
The Liberals (from 2014)

Alfredo Biondi (29 June 1928 – 24 June 2020) was an Italian politician and lawyer. In 1994 he served as Minister of Justice of the Italian Republic during the first cabinet chaired by Silvio Berlusconi.[2]

Biography

Born in Pisa, Biondi was Secretary of the Italian Liberal Party (PLI) from 1985 to 1986, and later its president. He was a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies from June 1968 to May 1972, and then from June 1983 to April 2006. He was a Senator from April 2006 to April 2008.

In 1993, together with the last PLI leader, Raffaele Costa, Biondi founded the Union of the Centre, a small faction of the new Forza Italia (FI) party. He served as Minister of Justice for a period of eight months (having previously served also as Ecology Minister in the 1980s).[3] Biondi was appointed President of Forza Italia's National Council in 2004.[3]

Following the dissolution of Forza Italia in 2009, Biondi remained in its successor organisation, the People of Freedom (PdL), for a further two years before leaving to join the refounded Italian Liberal Party. In 2014, Biondi was among a group of disaffected members who broke from that party to form The Liberals (I Liberali).

Honour

  •  Italy: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (14 october 2011)[4]

References

  1. ↑ Alfredo Biondi's profile at the Italian Senate (in Italian)
  2. ↑ Gumbel, Andrew (4 February 1995). "Ex-minister falls foul of TV trick". London: Independent. Archived from the original on 6 November 2012. Retrieved 11 February 2010.
  3. 1 2 "Hon. Alfredo Biondi turned 80". Pro-Deo State University. Retrieved 11 February 2010.
  4. ↑ "Le onorificenze della Repubblica Italiana". www.quirinale.it. Retrieved 24 October 2022.


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