Adriano Cario

He was the director of L'Eco d'Italia and president of the Centro Calabrese association in Buenos Aires.

In the 2018 general elections, he was elected to the Senate of the Republic in the “OVERSEAS B” (South America) on the list of the South American Union of Italian Emigrants (USEI), with 21,800 personal votes.

[1][2] On May 3, 2018, he left the USEI and joined the Associative Movement of Italians Abroad (MAIE), supporting the First Conte government.

In October 2021, the Senate's Elections and Immunities Committee unanimously approved the proposal to contest the senator's election due to alleged electoral fraud in ballots and votes.

The Public Prosecutor's Office of Rome ordered an expert examination of the ballots.