Giovanni "Gianni" Alemanno (b. 3 March 1958 in Bari, Italy) is an Italian politician who is currently Mayor of Rome.

He joined the neo-fascist^[1] Italian Social Movement at a very early age and became national secretary of the youth organization of the party in 1988. After being elected regional councillor of Lazio in 1990, he was elected for the first time to the Chamber of Deputies in the 1994 general election.

In 1995, along with Francesco Storace, he founded the Social Right, which was intended to be the more right-wing, socially-oriented and socially conservative faction within National Alliance, the new party which replaced its neo-fascist predecessor, the Italian Social Movement.

Between 2001 and 2006 Alemanno was Minister of Agriculture in Berlusconi II and III Cabinet.

After having been heavily defeated by Walter Veltroni in the 2006 mayoral election of Rome, in April 2008 he defeated Francesco Rutelli and became Mayor of the city.

Alemanno always wears a necklace with a celtic cross, which is a neo-fascist symbol in Italy.^[2].

Alemanno is the son-in-law of Pino Rauti, a former leader of the Italian Social Movement. Rauti was a volunteer in the army of the Italian Social Republic, the puppet state of Nazi Germany in the North of Italy from 1943 to 1945, when he was captured by the British.

In August 2008 Alemanno caused a controversy when Romanian shepherds attacked a dutch couple that had been camping outside of Rome. The couple was beaten and robbed and the woman was raped. Alemanno stated that the couple had been "very careless" by camping in an area "forgotten by God and man" where camping was illegal. Shadow minister Pina Picierno, demanded that Alemanno apologize to the couple.^[3]

References

External links

• Website of Alemano (in Italian)
• CityMayors profile
• BBC Assignment programme

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