Gianfranco Micciché
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The Honourable Gianfranco Micciché |
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| Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
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In office 15 April 1994 – 28 April 2008 |
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| Constituency | Sicily 3 |
| Minister for Development and Territorial Cohesion | |
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In office 23 April 2005 – 17 May 2006 |
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| Prime Minister | Silvio Berlusconi |
| Succeeded by | Raffaele Fitto (since 2008) |
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| Born |
1 April 1954 Palermo, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Political party |
Lotta Continua (1969–1976) Forza Italia (1994–2009) The People of Freedom (2009-2010) Force of the South (2010–2011) Great South (2011-2013) Forza Italia (2013-present) |
| Profession | Politician, Business executive |
Gianfranco Micciché (born 1 April 1954 in Palermo, Sicily) is an Italian politician.
Gianfranco Micciché was born into a wealthy family of Palermo.
He was Business executive at the IRFIS company for eleveen years.
In 1984, thanks to the knowledge of Marcello Dell'Utri, he became executive of Publitalia '80, a company led by Silvio Berlusconi. In 1993, together with other men of Publitalia '80, he joined Forza Italia, of which he was appointed regional coordinator in Sicily. In the 1994 general election he was elected for the first time in the Chamber of Deputies and served as Undersecretary at the Ministry of Transport and Navigation in the Berlusconi I Cabinet.
At the 1997 local elections he was candidate as mayor of Palermo for the Pole for Freedoms, but he was defeated by Leoluca Orlando.
In 2001 he served as Vice-Minister of Economy and Finance in the Berlusconi II Cabinet and in 2005 he was appointed Minister for Development and Territorial Cohesion in the Berlusconi III Cabinet.
In the 2006 Sicilian regional election he was elected in the Sicilian Regional Assembly, of which he was appointed President.
In the 2008 general election he was re-elected to the Chamber of Deputies. On 12 May 2008 the Council of Ministers appointed Micciché as Undersecretary of State with responsibility for CIPE (Interministerial Committee for Economic Planning).
In 2010 he left The People of Freedom to found his own party, Force of the South, that in 2011 changed name into Great South.
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