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Place of Birth: PaternĂ², Sicily, Italy
About Ignazio La Russa
- Ignazio Benito Maria La Russa (born 18 July 1947 in PaternĂ², Catania, Sicily) is an Italian politician.
- He was Minister of Defence in the fourth cabinet of Silvio Berlusconi.
- He is the Vice President of the Senate of the Republic in the XVIII Legislature (2018–today). On 11 May 2008, he became acting president of Gianfranco Fini's National Alliance (AN), which, on 29 March 2009, merged into Silvio Berlusconi's party The People of Freedom (PdL).
- He was one of the three (with Sandro Bondi and Denis Verdini, two former member of the historical FI) national coordinators of the PdL until 17 December 2012 when he launched his own National Centre-right (CN) party that in the 2013 general elections joined Brothers of Italy (FdI) of Giorgia Meloni (former member of MSI-AN-PdL) and Guido Crosetto (former member of DC-FI-PdL).
- From 4 April 2013 to 8 March 2014 La Russa was the President of Brothers of Italy (FdI).
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