Office: | Member of the Senate of the Republic for Naples–San Carlo all'Arena district |
Party: | Five Star Movement |
Birth Date: | 29 August 1943 |
Termstart: | 28 March 2018 |
Termend: | 22 November 2019 |
Birth Place: | Molinella, Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy |
Birth Name: | Franco Ortolani |
Death Place: | Rome, Italy |
Constituency: | Campania 7 |
Predecessor: | constituency established |
Successor: | Sandro Ruotolo |
Alma Mater: | University of Naples Federico II |
Franco Ortolani (29 August 1943 – 22 November 2019) was an Italian politician who served in the Italian Senate for the Five Star Movement from 2018 to 2019.[1]
Ortolani was a candidate for the Five Star Movement in the 2018 general election and was elected in Naples with winning over 100,000 votes.
He died from cancer in Rome in the night of 22 November 2019.[2] [3] [4] He was succeeded in a by-election in 2020 by Sandro Ruotolo of the centre-left coalition.[5]