Salvatore Cardinale

In 1987 and 1992 he was elected Deputy among the ranks of the Christian Democracy and from 1992 to 1994 he was also secretary of the Democratic parliamentary group in Montecitorio.

For a short time he was regional secretary of the CCD in Sicily and did not vote for trust to the first Prodi government.

In February 1998 he participated in the birth of the Democratic Union for the Republic and was appointed Minister of Communications in the first and second D'Alema governments.

In 1999 he joined the UDEUR of Clemente Mastella but in 2000 he became member of the Italian People's Party and was Minister of Communications in the second Amato government.

With the birth of The Daisy, he was part of the triumvirate which oversaw the construction of the party in Sicily, together with Francesco Piro and Francantonio Genovese, and became its regional secretary.