Letizia Moratti | |
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 Official portrait, 2024 | |
| Member of the European Parliament forNorth-West Italy | |
| Assumed office 16 July 2024 | |
| Mayor of Milan | |
| In office 1 June 2006 – 1 June 2011 | |
| Preceded by | Gabriele Albertini |
| Succeeded by | Giuliano Pisapia |
| Minister of Education, University and Research | |
| In office 11 June 2001 – 17 May 2006 | |
| Prime Minister | Silvio Berlusconi |
| Preceded by | Tullio De Mauro (Public Education) Ortensio Zecchino (University and Research) |
| Succeeded by | Giuseppe Fioroni (Public Education) Fabio Mussi (University and Research) |
| Chairperson ofRAI | |
| In office 12 July 1994 – 24 April 1996 | |
| Preceded by | Claudio Demattè |
| Succeeded by | Giuseppe Morello |
| Vice President and Assessor of Welfare of Lombardy | |
| In office 8 January 2021 – 2 November 2022 | |
| President | Attilio Fontana |
| Preceded by | Giulio Gallera |
| Succeeded by | Guido Bertolaso |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Letizia Maria Brichetto Arnaboldi (1949-11-26)26 November 1949 (age 75) Milan, Italy |
| Political party | FI (2023–present) |
| Other political affiliations | Independent (2001–2009) PdL (2009–2011) Independent (2011–2023) |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 2 |
| Relatives | Massimo Moratti (brother-in-law) |
| Alma mater | University of Milan |
| Occupation | Company manager, politician |
Letizia Maria Moratti (néeBrichetto Arnaboldi; born 26 November 1949) is an Italian businesswoman and politician. She was president ofRAI (1994–1996),Minister of Education, University and Research (2001–2006),mayor of Milan (2006–2011), and president of the board of directors ofUBI Banca (2019–2020). In January 2021, she was appointed vice president andAssessor of Welfare ofLombardy.
Moratti was born inMilan. She graduated in political science from theUniversity of Milan. She was married to the oil magnate Gianmarco Moratti (brother ofMassimo Moratti) and has two children, Gabriele and Gilda. She is the granddaughter of Mimina Brichetto Arnaboldi,an intellectual society lady who hosted an important salon in Milan in the years before the Second World War, and who was also an ardent anti-fascist.[citation needed]
Moratti is a businesswoman who has worked ininsurance andtelecommunications. Between 1994 and 1996, she was chairperson of the Italian state television companyRAI. At the end of 1998, for about a year she became chairman ofNews Corp Europe, a company headed byRupert Murdoch and owner ofStream TV. From 2001 to 2006, Moratti wasMinister of Education, University and Research in thesecond andthirdBerlusconi cabinets. During her mandate, she put forward a reform of theeducation system, which became the Moratti Law. She ran in the2006 Milan municipal election as theHouse of Freedoms mayoralty candidate and won with over 52% of the votes.[1] She sought a second term in the2011 Milan municipal but lost to thecentre-left coalition candidateGiuliano Pisapia.
Under Moratti, Milan was selected in 2007 as the hosting city for theExpo 2015. Its rivalİzmir, Turkey, lost by 61 votes against 86 in theBureau des Expositions gather in thePalais des congrès ofParis.[2] Moratti was commissioner of the Expo until 2011, when after her electoral loss, she resigned as commissioner out of respect for the new administration.[3]
The Moratti administration continuedGabriele Albertini's parking program, and in 2006 created 64,000 underground parking spaces, also in neighbourhoods likeNaviglio Grande andSant'Ambrogio's zone.[4] In 2007, Moratti launched the Cycle Mobiliting Plan, which foresaw 53 km ofcycling infrastructures, 2,385 new racks in 1,174 different localities, with 5,000 bikes and 250 stations in all cities within 2011. In 2008, Moratti created theEcopass, aroad pricing in the Milan Centre. This decision received several criticisms from the majority. In 2010, she also launched the use of publicelectric car in various zones of her city.[5][6]
Moratti proposed unsuccessfully a park dedicated toBettino Craxi, the controversialItalian Socialist Party leader who died while exiled in Tunisia in 2000.[7]
In January 2021, Moratti was appointed vice president and Assessor of Welfare in the Regional Cabinet of Lombardy. She resigned on 2 November 2022 to be a candidate forpresident of Lombardy. With 9.87% of the vote, she came in third place, failing to get elected.[8]
In 2006, Moratti was accused of firing 10 executives of the city. For thisspoils system, Moratti was convicted of office abuse. The sentence was archived because her acts were not illegal. She served in the city council only 6 presences in 2008 and 3 in 2009. In 2007, Moratti intervened to prevent the opening of Art and Homosexuality – From von Gloeden to Pierre et Gilles at the Palazzo della Ragione in Milan. Curated byEugenio Viola and promoted byVittorio Sgarbi, Moratti backed objections to the exhibition from Catholic politicians and insisted that it would only proceed if a blacklist of works were removed on the ground that they could be offensive to Catholics and unsuitable for children.
Moratti appointedLucio Stanca, a member of theChamber of Deputies, as managing director for the Expo 2015, despite the vote of the city council against her decision.[9] In 2010, a civil court complained against Moratti administration, the ministerRoberto Maroni and the prefect of Milan Gan Valerio Lombardi for the lack of appointment of popular houses to 10Romani families, called it as "racist gesture".[10] The accused justified themselves saying the Roma were a nomadic people.
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| Preceded by Tullio De Mauro (Instruction)Giuliano Amatoad interim (University and Research) | Minister of Education 2001–2006 | Succeeded by Giuseppe Fioroni (Instruction)Fabio Mussi (University and Research) |
| Preceded by | Mayor of Milan 2006–2011 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Vice President andAssessor of Welfare ofLombardy 2021–present | Succeeded by Incumbent |
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