Alfredo Biondi | |
Office: | Minister of Justice |
Term Start: | 10 May 1994 |
Term End: | 17 January 1995 |
Primeminister: | Silvio Berlusconi |
Predecessor: | Giovanni Conso |
Successor: | Filippo Mancuso |
Office2: | Minister of the Environment |
Term Start2: | 4 August 1983 |
Term End2: | 30 July 1984 |
Primeminister2: | Bettino Craxi |
Predecessor2: | Enstablished office |
Successor2: | Valerio Zanone |
Office3: | Member of the Chamber of Deputies |
Term Start3: | 5 June 1968 |
Term End3: | 24 May 1972 |
Term Start4: | 20 June 1979 |
Term End4: | 27 April 2006 |
Office5: | Member of the Senate |
Term Start5: | 27 April 2006 |
Term End5: | 28 April 2008 |
Birth Date: | 29 June 1928[1] |
Birth Place: | Pisa, Italy |
Death Place: | Genoa, Italy |
Nationality: | Italian |
Alma Mater: | University of Pisa |
Alfredo Biondi (29 June 1928 – 24 June 2020) was an Italian politician and lawyer. In 1994 he served as Minister of Justice of the Italian Republic during the first cabinet chaired by Silvio Berlusconi.[2]
Born in Pisa, Biondi was Secretary of the Italian Liberal Party (PLI) from 1985 to 1986, and later its president. He was a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies from June 1968 to May 1972, and then from June 1983 to April 2006. He was a Senator from April 2006 to April 2008.
In 1993, together with the last PLI leader, Raffaele Costa, Biondi founded the Union of the Centre, a small faction of the new Forza Italia (FI) party. He served as Minister of Justice for a period of eight months (having previously served also as Ecology Minister in the 1980s).[3] Biondi was appointed President of Forza Italia's National Council in 2004.
Following the dissolution of Forza Italia in 2009, Biondi remained in its successor organisation, the People of Freedom (PdL), for a further two years before leaving to join the refounded Italian Liberal Party. In 2014, Biondi was among a group of disaffected members who broke from that party to form The Liberals (I Liberali).
He died on 24 June 2020 in Genoa.[4]