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Italian politician (born 1956)
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Giancarlo Galan
7th President of Veneto
In office
26 May 1995 – 13 April 2010
Preceded byFranco Frigo
Succeeded byLuca Zaia
Minister of Agriculture
In office
16 April 2010 – 23 March 2011
Prime MinisterSilvio Berlusconi
Preceded byLuca Zaia
Succeeded byFrancesco Saverio Romano
Minister of Cultural Heritage and Activities
In office
23 March 2011 – 16 November 2011
Prime MinisterSilvio Berlusconi
Preceded bySandro Bondi
Succeeded byLorenzo Ornaghi
Personal details
Born (1956-09-10) 10 September 1956 (age 68)
Padua, Italy
Political partyFI (since 2013)
Other political
affiliations		PLI (1970s–1980s)
FI (1994–2009)
PdL (2009–2013)
Height1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
ResidencePadua
Occupationpolitician

Giancarlo Galan (born 10 September 1956) is an Italian politician.

Career

Born in Padua, Galan was an activist of the Italian Liberal Party in the 1970s and the 1980s. He was not fully active in politics until he joined Forza Italia since its foundation in 1994. In the same year, he was elected to Italy's Chamber of Deputies.

In 1995, Galan ran successfully for president of Veneto. He was re-elected in 2000 and 2005. He did not stand for re-election in 2010, when the centre-right coalition supported Luca Zaia of Liga Veneta–Lega Nord for president. He was Minister of Agriculture in Silvio Berlusconi's fourth cabinet from 2010 to 2011, filling the place vacated by Zaia. He later served as Minister of Cultural Heritage and Activities for a few months in 2011. In 2013, he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies and became chairman of the Culture Committee.

In June 2014, a tribunal in Venice asked the Italian Parliament for an authorization to proceed against Galan for bribery, extortion, and money laundering in the framework of the inquiry about the MOSE Project. The Parliament approved the request; Galan was led to a prison in Milan, and later granted house arrest in his villa near Padua.

References

  1. Segatti, Paolo (October 2003). Italian politics: the second Berlusconi government. Berghahn Books. p. 69. ISBN 978-1-57181-668-9.
  2. "Giancarlo Galan - Ultime notizie su Giancarlo Galan - Argomenti del Sole 24 Ore". Argomenti Argomenti del Sole 24 Ore.
  3. "Giancarlo Galan | HuffPost". www.huffingtonpost.it.
  4. "Galan, l'uomo che sognava il Terzo Veneto". www.ilgazzettino.it. 5 June 2014.
  5. "Venezia, arrestato il sindaco Orsoni "A Galan denaro e lavori in villa"". Corriere della Sera. 4 June 2014.
  6. "Arrestato Galan, portato nel carcere di Opera Dalla Camera il sì all-arresto con 395 voti - Cronaca - il Mattino di Padova". Archived from the original on 29 July 2014. Retrieved 10 August 2014.
  7. "Galan agli arresti domiciliari, il doge torna a casa". Il Sole 24 ORE.

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Assembly seats
Preceded byTitle jointly held Member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies
XII Legislature
1994–1995 		Succeeded byTitle jointly held
Preceded byTitle jointly held Member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies
XVII Legislature
2013– 		Incumbent
Preceded byTitle jointly held Member of the Italian Senate
XV Legislature
2006 		Succeeded byTitle jointly held
Preceded byTitle jointly held Member of the Italian Senate
XVI Legislature
2008 		Succeeded byTitle jointly held
Political offices
Preceded bySandro Bondi Italian Minister of Culture
2011 		Succeeded byLorenzo Ornaghi
Berlusconi IV Cabinet (2008–2011)
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