Mario Adinolfi | |
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| Member of theChamber of Deputies | |
| In office 13 June 2012 – 14 March 2013 | |
| Constituency | Lazio 1 |
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| Born | (1971-08-15)15 August 1971 (age 54) Rome, Italy |
| Political party | DC (before 1994) PPI (1994–2002) DL (2002–2007) PD (2007–2013) PdF (since 2016) |
| Height | 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in)[1] |
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| Children | 1 |
| Profession | Journalist |
Mario Adinolfi (born 15 August 1971) is an Italian journalist, politician and poker player. He is famous in Italy for his Catholic beliefs.[2]
He was born inRome to Ugo Adinolfi and a woman ofAustralian descent.[3]
Adinolfi graduated in history. He has been a journalist since the late 1980s, writing for the newspapersAvvenire,Europa,Il Popolo andLa Discussione. He also worked for theRadio Vaticana.
He was a journalist for theRAI, where he is the author and presenter of several programs. He had a brief program atMTV Italia,Pugni in Tasca, aired from 2007 to 2008.
He also has worked in radio and has a programme onRadio Maria since February 2015.
He was the founder and is the director of the newspaperLa Croce, on 21 October 2014, available online and also briefly in a purchasable edition from 13 January to 16 May 2015.
Adinolfi started as aChristian Democracy member, but after the party dissolution, he joined the newly created centre-leftItalian People's Party, being the youngest member of their constituent assembly in 1993, aged 22 years old. He was elected national president of the Popular Youth of the party in 1994, joining soon the national executive of the PPI. He founded the movement Direct Democracy to run for mayor of Rome in the administrative elections of 13 May 2001. He supportedWalter Veltroni in the second round of the elections.
He was a co-founder of theDemocratic Party, being a candidate for the party leadership on 18 July 2007. He had 5906 votes, entering by his own right the constituent assembly of the party, which elected him for the commission that wrote their statute. He was also a member of the national direction of the PD.
He was a candidate of the PD at the legislative elections of 13–14 April 2008, in Lazio circunscrition, at number 18, but wasn't elected. He was a candidate for the national secretary of the PD on 25 June 2009. He became a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies on 13 June 2012, replacing Pietro Tidei, which he was until 14 March 2013.[4] In 2012, he was one of the first Italian parliamentarians to ask for a diplomatic intervention of Europe in theSyrian civil war.[5]
In March 2016 he foundedThe People of the Family, asocial conservative party. The party was accused by many political commentators of being aChristian fundamentalist movement.[6][7]
Adinolfi became quite famous in Italy for his controversial statement. He created a lot of protests when he stated that women must be submissive to men, as written in theHoly Bible,[8] and thatAdolf Hitler was less dangerous than people who supportedeuthanasia, because he killeddisabled people for free.[9] In May 2017, Adinolfi presented the French PresidentEmmanuel Macron as a Freemason.[10]
In 2014, Adinolfi published the book titledVoglio la mamma e La Croce with theYoucanprint publishing house, a book in which he invited the Italian center-left position to take the role of defensors of the weakest persons like newborns (in respect ofabortion,same-sex marriage andsurrogacy of maternity), the elderlies (euthanasia).[11]
In November 2018, he publicly defended an Italian writer, psychologist and psychiatrist, with 40 years of professional activity, that have affirmed homosexuality is an illness and not a normal condition. The municipality ofTurin supported the judiciary against her.[12]
In June 2021, he publicly commentedBlack Lives Matter symbolism, shown and practised by volunteering football players during football matches played inUEFA Euro 2020, as ridiculous.
Adinolfi has already published several books, includingEmail: Lettera della Generazione Invisibile (1998),Mundial, o, Della Perdita dell'Innocenza (2004), a novel,Il Conclave (2005),Generazione U (2007), andVoglio la Mamma (2014), against what he calls "the false myths of progress", including abortion, euthanasia, same-sex marriage and surrogate motherhood.[13]
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