Giorgio La Malfa (born 13 October 1939) is an Italian politician.
Biography La Malfa was born on 13 October 1939 in Milan, the son of Ugo La Malfa, a long-time Italian political leader and government minister. He read law at the University of Pavia and the economics tripos at St John's College, Cambridge, before working as a research fellow in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he co-authored a paper on the Italian economy with Franco Modigliani."University News", The Times, 26 June 1964, p. 16. Upon returning to Italy in 1966, he taught political economy at the University of Catania in Sicily.
La Malfa served as secretary of the Italian Republican Party (PRI) from 1987 to 1993, when he stood down and was indicted to face trial over a corruption scandal. He returned to politics in 1994, and has since 2001 been president of the party. From 2001 to 2005, he was President of the Finances Commission of the Italian Chamber of Deputies. He was Italian minister for European Union Affairs from April 2005 until the elections of April 2006, when the centre-right coalition lost its majority; La Malfa was nonetheless elected to Parliament. La Malfa was re-elected to the Chamber in the 2008 Italian general election with The People of Freedom, but on 24 September 2009, he announced his detachment from the Berlusconi IV Cabinet through a letter published by Corriere della Sera.La Malfa: Berlusconi addio Sono deluso da questo governo
On 8 June 2011, he was expelled from PRI by the party's college of arbitrators, for having voted against the Berlusconi Cabinet on 14 December 2010. He was readmitted into the party in March 2019.
In 2015, he was a Visiting Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. Since 2018, he has been the president of the Ugo La Malfa Foundation. He regularly writes for Il Mattino and Quotidiano Nazionale. He also contributes to Aspenia, the Italian magazine of the Aspen Institute.
Electoral history ElectionHouseConstituencyPartyVotesResult 1972 Chamber of Deputies Turin–Novara–Vercelli PRI 9,006 Elected 1976 Chamber of Deputies Turin–Novara–Vercelli PRI 15,279 Elected 1979 Chamber of Deputies Turin–Novara–Vercelli PRI 16,693 Elected 1983 Chamber of Deputies Turin–Novara–Vercelli PRI 26,497 Elected 1987 Chamber of Deputies Turin–Novara–Vercelli PRI 16,481 Elected 1992 Chamber of Deputies Milan–Pavia PRI 48,472 Elected 1994 European Parliament Central Italy PRI 15,598 Elected 1996 Chamber of Deputies Mirano Ulivo 34,916 Elected 2001 Chamber of Deputies Emilia-Romagna at-large FI – Elected 2006 Chamber of Deputies Marche at-large FI – Elected 2008 Chamber of Deputies Marche at-large PdL – Elected
Bibliography Le innovazioni nella teoria dello sviluppo (1970) L'Italia al bivio, ristagno o sviluppo (1985, with E. Grilli and P. Savona) Le ragioni di una svolta (1992, with G. Turani) L'Europa legata: i rischi dell'euro (2000)
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External links Official website