Who is Lorenzo Fontana, the Foreign Affairs Officer of the League elected president of the Chamber of Deputies. Here is Fontana's curriculum

With 222 votes, Lorenzo Fontana is the new president of the Chamber.

The candidate of the center-right and Northern League exponent has, therefore, exceeded the necessary quorum, equal to the absolute majority of votes, ie 200 plus one.

The candidate of the Democratic Party, Maria Cecilia Guerra, obtained 77 votes. The candidates of the Five Star Movement and of Italia Viva-Action, Federico Cafiero De Raho and Matteo Richetti, collected respectively 52 and 22 consents.

So the center-right managed to elect both the president of the Senate (Ignazio La Russa , with the split of Forza Italia), and the president of the Chamber, Fontana.

All the ideas of Lorenzo Fontana, the new Speaker of the House, on Russia, NATO, the EU, abortion and gay

WHO IS LORENZO FONTANA, THE ANSA CARD:

Veronese doc, born in 1980, Lorenzo Fontana has been deputy secretary in charge of foreign affairs of the League since 2016, MEP from 2009 to '18, then elected deputy.

In the same year he was Minister for the Family and Disabilities until 2019, Vice President of the Chamber and holder of European Affairs from 10 July to 5 September 2019 in the Conte I government.

A great fan of the Verona football team, with a degree in Political Science, Philosophy and History, he is considered the leading exponent of the hard wing of the party.

Ultra-conservative and traditionalist, he has always put his Catholic faith at the forefront of his political activity, in the front row against abortion, civil unions, the so-called gender theory, marriage between homosexuals and in defense of the Christian roots of Europe.

In a conference of the Pro Vita Onlus association he said that gay marriages and the theory of gender, on the one hand, and mass immigration on the other, "aim to erase our community and our traditions", fearing the risk of "Obliteration of our people".

Just scroll through his twitter account to understand his closeness to the history of the Church and the saints. Almost every day he tweets the saint of the day attaching a photo of him and a brief explanatory note. A few days ago, on 7 October, he celebrated the anniversary of the battle of Lepanto. That day, are the words of Fontana, the Holy League won the victory “against the Ottoman advance. Christian Europe – he adds – proud of its identity, obtained an extraordinary victory. Today we remember Our Lady of the Rosary ”. Two days earlier, he paid homage to the victims of the massacre in Mozambique: “Guilty of being Christians and therefore slaughtered by terrorists. The day after the murder of Sister Maria de Coppi, another Christian blood, flows in Mozambique ”.

But Fontana also has clear positions in foreign policy. A few days later the vote criticized President Biden's words. "Probably, the Democratic president is aware of what will happen in the mid-term elections, where the Republican patriots will win", he tweeted, commenting on the words of Joe Biden, when after the affirmation of the center-right he said: "you saw what happened in Italy , we cannot be too optimistic ”.

All the ideas of Lorenzo Fontana, the new Speaker of the House, on Russia, NATO, the EU, abortion and gay

ALL ABOUT LORENZO FONTANA, THE AGI FACTSHEET :

Forty-two years old, deputy secretary and head of the Foreign Affairs department of the League, Lorenzo Fontana was elected to the presidency of the Chamber. Known for his ultra-conservative positions on the subject of family, the Veronese is the most studious of the party in via Bellerio . He has three degrees: in Political Science at the University of Padua, in History at the European University, in Philosophy at the Pontifical University of San Tommaso d'Aquino Angelicum, where he is studying to obtain the fourth.

MEP for two terms, from 2009 to 2018, over the years in Strasbourg he knows and frequents Salvini and is the one who helps to create the bond, which still remains, between the Northern League secretary and Marine Le Pen. Recently, however, he was among the promoters of the Salvinian project – so far failed – aimed at creating a center-right maxi-group in Europe , ranging from the Popolari to the Conservatives, passing through Viktor Orban .

Elected for the first time to the Chamber in 2018, he was vice president of Montecitorio for three months, before being appointed Minister of the Family (June 2018 -10 July 2019) and later Minister of European Affairs (10 July -5 September 2019) .

A supporter of Hellas Verona, married with a daughter, Fontana has often ended up in the crosshairs of the Lgbtiq + community for his positions on unmarried couples and civil unions and pentastellates for those on family, women and religion.

In 2019 he is among the promoters of the meeting organized in Verona by the world congress of the family, an American Christian organization. “The family that we recognize and that we will support, even economically, is the one sanctioned and protected by the Constitution”, said Fontana, when he was Minister of the Family, entering into controversy with the then Undersecretary for Equal Opportunities Vincenzo Spadafora of the 5 Star Movement.

“They told us we are backward, clerical. As Saint Pius X said, when they tell you these things, be proud of them. And we are proud to say that there must be a mom and a dad , ”he added.

All the ideas of Lorenzo Fontana, the new Speaker of the House, on Russia, NATO, the EU, abortion and gay

THE CURRICULUM OF LORENZO FONTANA WHEN HE WAS MINISTER:

The Minister for the Family and Disabilities Lorenzo Fontana is married and has a daughter. Since 2013 he has been Deputy Federal Secretary of the League. He has a degree in Political Science from the University of Padua and in History from the European University of Rome. Enrolled in the register of journalists, he began his career in the institutions as a municipal councilor in Verona and was then elected to the European Parliament, for the first time, in 2009. During the following two terms he held the position of head of delegation of the Lega Nord group and vice-president of the culture, education and sport committee of the European Parliament. Among other things, he was rapporteur for the proposal for a regulation on general provisions on the Asylum and Migration Fund and for the draft decision on the operational and strategic cooperation agreement between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Europol. He was a member of the Agriculture Commission and of the Commission for Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and of the Delegation for relations with Iraq and for the EU-Ukraine association. From 7 July 2017 to 12 June 2018 (the date on which he registered his resignation) he was Deputy Mayor of the city of Verona. In February 2018 his book was released: “The empty cradle of civilization. At the origin of the crisis ”, written together with the economist Ettore Gotti Tedeschi. On 5 March 2018 he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in the Veneto 2 district. On 29 March 2018 he was elected vice-president of the Chamber of Deputies. On Friday 1 June 2018 he was sworn in as Minister assuming the proxies: Policies for the Family, Disability, Childhood and Adolescence, Anti-drug Policies.

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