Farewell to Willer Bordon, he was the liberal who invented ‘Alliance … – BBC

Mourning in policy

Milan , July 14, 2015 – 13:40

     
     
 

” He left this morning, at about 12:30, Mr Willer Bordon » . The news was a note of his secretariat. He had 66 years in politics and always sought a bank secular and liberal, even sailing in many parties, including the IDV of Di Pietro Francesco Rutelli of the Margherita. Had the intuition of the Democratic Alliance, a sort of aggregate “liberal” that after Tangentopoli tried to gather what was left of the Italian reformist tradition, pulverized by notices of Clean Hands. For a time, the experiment seemed to work: Ad, the acronym, brought in Parliament – sided with what Occhetto called it “a joyous war machine”, was 1994 – a handful of senators and deputies (MEPs also). For the next election is annacquò Who signs the pact with those with the Olive Tree. Bordon but always he managed to find its own political space.

Mayor and Minister

Bordon was mayor of Muggia (in Trieste) for 10 years. Elected for the first time in Parliament in 1987, he was environment minister, presiding over the interministerial coordination of the G8 Environment. It was also Minister of Public Works, Minister of Cultural Heritage, president of the group “Democrats” in the House and “La Margherita” in the Senate. After resigning from the Senate has been a university lecturer at the Faculty of Political Science, University “La Sapienza” of Rome, and has undertaken various business activities, many of which in the field of renewable energy.

Rosato: “It was not a quick change, if anything innovator”

“Willer Bordon has been a close friend and a political race.” This was stated by Ettore Rosato, president of the Democratic Party deputies. “His was an exceptional upward flight: as mayor of Muggia, small company Julian, to Minister of Public Works and Environment. A politician never sated of novelty. Heretic in the Communist Party because it also joined the Radical Party, alongside Mario Segni in the first referendum, and one of the promoters of the Democratic Alliance. Then alongside Antonio Di Pietro in the birth IDV and then in Margherita di Francesco Rutelli. It was not a quick change, if anything, an innovator. Willer has always fought new roads, seeking harmony with the citizens. He knew grasp, like few others, which matured in the new country. S. Bordon lose and cry with a dear friend, “concluded Rose.

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