Roberto Giachetti

Roberto Giachetti (born 24 April 1961) is an Italian politician, member of Italia Viva and of the Transnational Radical Party. He has been a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies since 2001.

Roberto Giachetti
Vice-President of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
21 March 2013 – 23 March 2018
PresidentLaura Boldrini
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
Assumed office
30 May 2001
Personal details
Born (1961-04-24) 24 April 1961
Rome, Italy
Political partyRadical Party (1979–89)
Greens (1989–2001)
The Daisy (2001–07)
Democratic Party (2007-2019)
Italia Viva (since 2019)
Other political
affiliations		Transnational Radical Party (since 1989)
ProfessionPolitician, journalist

Biography

Roberto Giachetti was born in Rome in 1961. As a student, he was an activist of center-left libertarian Radical Party, and worked with Radio Radicale. When the Radical Party was dissolved, Giachetti joined the Italian Greens and was elected a district councillor in Rome. In 1993, Mayor of Rome Francesco Rutelli appointed him director of his mayoral cabinet (Italian: capo di gabinetto).[1]

Along with Rutelli, he left the Federation of the Greens in 1999 to join the newly-launched Democrats party; in 2002, he was one of the founders of The Daisy, born from the merger of Democrats and PPI. During the same year, he became municipal secretary of The Daisy in Rome and was first elected to the Chamber of Deputies. In The Daisy, Giachetti was a member of the Rutelliani faction, pushing to model the party after the U.S. Democratic Party.[2] He was confirmed for re-election in the 2006 Italian general election, backed from the centre-left coalition The Olive Tree, and in the 2008 general election, in the ranks of the just formed Democratic Party.

Beginning after the 2013 general election, he became gradually affiliated with the Renziani, the economically market-liberal, socially progressive faction around party secretary Matteo Renzi.[3] On 21 March 2013, Giachetti was elected Vice-President of the Chamber of Deputies.[4] In May 2013, he sponsored a motion to abolish the Porcellum electoral law and return to the previous Mattarellum law on an interim basis. Opposed by then–Prime Minister Enrico Letta and a majority of the Democratic Party, and supported by some 100 deputies of Left Ecology Freedom (SEL) and the Five Star Movement (M5S), the motion failed,[5] but it prepared the field for the 2015 electoral law reform under Letta's successor Matteo Renzi.

In January 2016 Matteo Renzi asked Giachetti to present his candidacy to Mayor of Rome.[6] He accepted and won the party primaries in March with a 64.1% result, beating Roberto Morassut, Stefano Pedica and others.[7] Backed by PD, Greens, IdV, Radicals and other minor parties, Giachetti secured 24.87% of the vote in the first round of the 2016 mayoral election; in the runoff vote, he gathered almost 33%, and lost to M5S candidate Virginia Raggi.[8] In the 2017 party leadership election, incumbent secretary Renzi was re-elected; in March, Giachetti joined the second Renzi secretariat.[9]

After being re-elected to the Chamber of Deputies in the 2018 general election, in December of the same year Giachetti announced his candidacy in the 2019 party leadership election on a ticket with fellow Deputy Anna Ascani.[10][11] Their electoral platform focused on vindicating the accomplishments of the Renzi and Gentiloni Cabinet, and revive the moderate wing of the party, thus thwarting any attempts at an alliance with M5S or Free and Equal (LEU). On 3 March 2019 Giachetti placed third in the contest with a 12% result, after incumbent secretary Maurizio Martina (22%) and President of Lazio Nicola Zingaretti (66%).[12]

In September 2019, Giachetti left the Democratic Party and joined Italia Viva, the liberal party just founded by Matteo Renzi.

Personal life

Giachetti was married to Radio Radicale journalist Giovanna Reanda. Now divorced, they have two children, Giulia and Stefano.[13]

References
  1. "Chi è Roberto Giachetti" [Who is Roberto Giachetti?] (in Italian). Roberto Giachetti. Retrieved 21 March 2013.
  2. Francesco Maesano (13 January 2016). "Cinque cose su Giachetti, l'uomo di Renzi per il Campidoglio" [Five things about Giachetti, Renzi's confidant for the Capitol]. La Stampa (in Italian). Retrieved 20 June 2016.
  3. Emanuele Buzzi (6 March 2016). "Primarie, vincono Giachetti e Valente, ma a Roma affluenza dimezzata" [At the primaries, Giachetti and Valente won, their influence in Rome however diminishing]. Corriere della Sera (in Italian). Retrieved 20 June 2016.
  4. Chi è Roberto Giachetti, candidato del PD a sindaco di Roma
  5. "La "mozione Giachetti" e la legge elettorale" [The "Giachetti motion" and electoral law] (in Italian). Il Post. 30 September 2013. Retrieved 20 June 2016.
  6. Sappino, Luca (13 January 2016). "Pd, primarie per il sindaco di Roma: Renzi lancia Roberto Giachetti". L'Espresso. Retrieved 8 May 2020.
  7. "Roma, risultati finali primarie Pd: 47.317 votanti, Giachetti 64%". askanews. 7 March 2016. Retrieved 8 May 2020.
  8. Rosie Scamell (20 June 2016). "Anti-establishment candidates elected to lead Rome and Turin". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 June 2016.
  9. Casalini, Simona (30 May 2017). "Legge elettorale ed elezioni: Renzi alla direzione Pd. "Sì al sistema tedesco, sorta di pacificazione istituzionale"". la Repubblica. Retrieved 8 May 2020.
  10. Pd: ticket Giachetti-Ascani per congresso
  11. Pd, Giachetti: "Con Ascani ci candidiamo al congresso"
  12. Rubino, Monica (4 March 2019). "Primarie Pd, dati finali: un milione e 600 mila votanti. Zingaretti il 66% dei consensi. E Conte telefona al neosegretario". la Repubblica. Retrieved 8 May 2020.
  13. Colombo, Ettore Maria (2 March 2019). "Speciale Primarie Pd/3. Chi è Roberto Giachetti, da dove viene, chi lo sostiene e un'intervista". L'Uovo di Colombo. Retrieved 8 May 2020.
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