Valdo Spini

Valdo Spini (born 20 January 1946 in Florence) is an Italian politician[1] and author.

He was elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies in 1979, and re-elected seven times, remaining in office as an MP until 2008.

He was also elected member in 2009 of the Town Council of Florence, where he currently serves as President of the Institutional Affairs Committee, and is the leader of his own "SpiniperFirenze", an independent civic movement.

He has been editor (since 1981) of the "Quaderni del Circolo Rosselli" (Firenze, Alinea ed), a political culture magazine published by the "Circolo Rosselli" Foundation, a Florence-based think-tank, of which he is President.

("Twenty Years After the Bolognina", referring to the dissolution of the Italian Communist Party at the end of the Cold War) Valdo Spini is a Waldensian and the son of Giorgio Spini, a prominent Italian historian who died in 2006.