Bobo Craxi Explained

Bobo Craxi
Term Start:30 May 2001
Term End:28 April 2006
Constituency:Sicily 1
Birth Name:Vittorio Michele Craxi
Birth Date:1964 8, df=y
Birth Place:Milan, Italy
Nationality:Italian
Spouse:Scintilla Cicconi
Children:2

Vittorio Michele Craxi, commonly known as Bobo Craxi (born 6 August 1964), is an Italian politician, son of the former Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi and brother of Stefania Craxi.

Biography

Formerly a prominent member of the Italian Socialist Party and Socialist League, he was a founder of the New Italian Socialist Party in 2001.

He has been elected MP at the Chamber of Deputies of Italy for the riding of Trapani in the 2001 general election in the House of Freedoms centre-right coalition, serving until 2006.

He left the NPSI in late January 2006 after the rejection, by a judicial court, of his claim of having been elected as new national Secretary.

Thus he founded a new movement, The Socialists, of which he was the leader for a period. The party was part of the centre-left coalition The Union,[1] and eventually merged into the refounded Socialist Party in 2007.[2]

In 2006-2008 he served in the Prodi government as undersecretary of Foreign Affairs, delegated to United Nations relationships.[3]

Bobo Craxi was candidate among the ranks of PSI for the Regional Council of Lazio in 2010 and for the Senate in 2013, but on both occasions he was not elected.

On 24 October 2015 he founded Socialist Area (Italian: Area Socialista), as internal faction of the Italian Socialist Party.

On the occasion of the 2022 Italian general election he was a candidate for the centre-left coalition in the single-member constituency "Sicily 1-02",[4] but he got only 15% of the votes and he was not elected.

He considers himself an atheist.[5]

Notes and References

  1. News: Bobo Craxi, accordo coi Ds sarà candidato nel "listone". it. La Repubblica. 2 March 2006. 26 May 2019.
  2. News: Varata la Costituente socialista Boselli: "Il nuovo partito lo chiamerei Psi". it. La Repubblica. 14 July 2007. 26 May 2019.
  3. News: Il governo Prodi ha giurato Nominati i sottosegretari. it. La Repubblica. 18 May 2006. 26 May 2019.
  4. Web site: Elezioni, Bobo Craxi corre per la Camera a Palermo: "Accetto la proposta del centrosinistra". it. 21 August 2022. 27 October 2022.
  5. Lucio. Giordano. Come mio padre Bettino Craxi non credo ma ascolto Radio Maria. it. Dipiù. 3 May 2024. 17. 86-89.