Giorgio Stracquadanio

Giorgio Clelio Stracquadanio (22 March 1959 – 31 January 2014) was an Italian politician and journalist.

[1][2] In 1996 he ran unsuccessfully as an MP for Silvio Berlusconi's Polo delle Libertà.

As a legislator he rejected a proposal for the diminishing of members of parliament's salaries and benefits.

Stracquadanio also worked as a journalist with the right-wing newspaper Libero, for which he edited some political pamphlets.

In 2009-2010, Stracquadanio was criticized for many controversial statements, including: In July 2012 he left Berlusconi's party and in December of the same year joined the political project built by Mario Monti.