Giuseppe Conte

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Giuseppe Conte (Italian pronunciation: [duzpe kkonte]; born 8 August 1964) is an Italian jurist, scholar, and politician who served as Prime Minister of Italy from June 2018 to February 2021. Since August 2021, he has been president of the Five Star Movement (M5S).

Conte spent the majority of his career as a private law professor and also a member of the Italian Bureau of Administrative Justice, from 2013 to 2018. Despite never having held a political position before, he was voted as the independent leader of a coalition government spanning the M5S and the League following the 2018 Italian general election. After both sides agreed on a joint deputies, he was sworn in as Prime Minister by President Sergio Mattarella on June 1st. The League filed a motion of no confidence in the coalition government and Conte resigned as Prime Minister in August 2019, but Conte and the M5S and the Democratic Party have agreed to form a new government, with Conte remaining at the top. Conte became Italy's first prime minister to lead two separate governments made up of right-wing and left-wing coalition supporters.

Despite beginning his political career as a technocrat, and despite being asked to implement the government's M5S and the League's M5S and the League's government policy, Conte became a leading and popular figure in Italian politics during his second term. During his tenure as prime minister, he introduced several key changes, including the introduction of a guaranteed minimum wage, a legislative amendment to minimize the number of parliamentarians, nationalizations of ASPI (Italy's highway company), Alitalia (the Italian flag carrier), and Ilva (Italy's biggest steel company), as well as a tighter regulation of illegal immigration. Italy was one of the countries hardest affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. His government was the first in the Western world to implement a national lockdown to prevent the disease from spreading. Despite being widely supported by public opinion, the lockdown was also described as the country's biggest assault on constitutional rights. Journals, political analysts, and opposition politicians were outraged by Conte's extensive use of prime ministerial decrees to place limits aimed at containing the pandemic. In Italy, the COVID-19 pandemic was particularly acute. Conte and other European politicians signed the Next Generation EU plan in July 2020, which will guarantee Italy 209 billion euros in grants and loans from the European Recovery Fund, helping with the COVID-19 recession.

Italia Viva, a Matteo Renzi's company, first announced its support for Conte's government in January. Despite being able to gain confidence votes in Parliament in the following days, Conte resigned after struggling to achieve a simple majority in the Senate. When talks to form Conte's third cabinet came to a halt, Mario Draghi, the former president of the European Central Bank, was urged to establish a national unity government.

Conte was the fifth Prime Minister to have an inexperienced role after Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, Silvio Berlusconi, Lamberto Dini, and Mario Monti, as well as the first from Southern Italy after Ciriaco De Mita 1989. Despite being widely believed to be close to the M5S, Conte was also Italy's longest-serving independent prime minister. Conte's first cabinet has been often regarded as one of the leading examples of techno-populism, according to several publications, including The New York Times and la Repubblica, as the "first modern populist government in Western Europe," owing to his leadership style. Conte has often been described as "the people's advocate" (l'avvocato del popolo), when he introduced himself as Prime Minister in his first address.

Personal life

Conte married Valentina Fico, a Rome attorney and the niece of a former Santa Cecilia conservatory, who has a child named Niccole, who was born in 2007 but who died after a few years; however, they divorced after a few years. Conte had been involved with Olivia Paladino, the granddaughter of Roman entrepreneur Cesare Paladino and Swedish actress Ewa Aulin by December 2018.

Conte, a passionate supporter of A.S. Roma, developed as he studied at Sapienza University in Rome. He is a Roman Catholic and a follower of Padre Pio of Pietrelcina. Conte also speaks English in addition to his native Italian.

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Early life and career

Conte was born in 1984 in Volturara Appula, near Foggia, and in a middle-class family. Nicola's father was a municipal employee in the local area, while his mother, Lillina Roberti, was a primary school teacher.

Conte's family migrated to San Giovanni Rotondo in San Marco, Bazzo, and then studied law at the Sapienza University of Rome, where he graduated 1988 with distinction. He officially qualified as a solicitor in 1992, but before that, for a short time, he was studying abroad. He went to the United States to study at Yale Law School and Duquesne University, as well as at the International Culture Institute in Vienna in 1993. He later taught at Sorbonne University in 2000, Girton College, Cambridge, 2001, and New York University in 2008.

He began his academic career in Rome in the 1990s, teaching at LUMSA University in Rome, at the University of Malta, and at the University of Sassari in Sardinia. Conte is currently a professor of private law at the University of Florence and at the LUISS in Rome. He is a member of the board of trustees of John Cabot University in Rome. Conte's assertion that he completed his studies at New York University has been challenged, with the university stating that "no one by this name appears on any of our databases as either a student or faculty member."

Conte served on the board of directors of the Italian Space Agency (ASI), but the Bank of Italy appointed him as a member of the "Banking and Financial Arbitrage" commission in 2010 and 2012. He served on the scientific committee of the Italian Foundation of Notaries.

He was elected by the Chamber of Deputies as a member of the Bureau of Administrative Justice, the self-governing body of administrative magistrates, on which he also served as Vice President on 18 September 2013.

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