Ferdinando Adornato | |
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Born | May 11, 1954 |
Ferdinando Adornato, MP (born May 11, 1954) is an Italian politician. He was a member of the Union of Christian and Centre Democrats, and currently Centrists for Italy.
Adornato was born in Polistena. He graduated with a degree in philosophy. He is a journalist, director of the monthly Liberal.
He joined the Italian Communist Party, was editor of the La Città Futura, periodical of the Federation of Italian Communist Youth (FGCI), then became leader of the reformist left, and the Democratic Party of the Left.
In 1992 he was a founder and leader of the Democratic Alliance, which lead to his election to the Chamber of Deputies in the 1994 general election.
On 8 June 1994 he founded and led the group Area,
an area of programmatic comparison (...) inspired liberal, Christian and environmentalist (...) elements as a bridge between the left opposition and the center opposition.
In March 1995 he founded and directed the monthly Liberal, which in May 1996 will be supported by the Adeline Foundation. Between 1996 and 2001, Adorno did not engage in politics in parliament, and merely played the role of journalist and director of Liberal. From 1999 he writes for Avvenire, and also writes for Il Giornale since 2000. He moved gradually into the centre and in 2001, after being re-elected deputy of the House of Freedoms coalition, in the College of Portogruaro, where a majority adhered to Forza Italia.
He is one of the main promoters of the single party of moderates (Casa dei Moderati), a popular European-inspired political entity that can aggregate the major parties, Democrat and Conservative movements in addition to the political authorities.