Gianpiero D'Alia

Gianpiero D'Alia (born 22 September 1966) is an Italian politician.

Gianpiero D'Alia
D'Alia in 2013
Minister for Public Administration and Simplification
In office 28 April 2013 – 22 February 2014
Prime Minister	Enrico Letta
Preceded by	Filippo Patroni Griffi
Succeeded by	Marianna Madia
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office 30 May 2001 – 28 April 2008
In office 15 March 2013 – 22 March 2018
Member of the Senate of Republic
In office 29 April 2008 – 14 March 2013
Constituency	Sicily
President of the Union of the Centre
In office 22 March 2014 – 2 November 2016
Personal details
Born	(1966-09-22) 22 September 1966 (age 58) Messina, Italy
Political party	DC (1987–1994) CCD (1994–2002) UdC (2001–2016) CpE (since 2016)
Alma mater	University of Messina
Profession	Politician, lawyer

Early life and education

Gianpiero D'Alia was born on 22 September 1966 in Messina. His father was the former Christian Democracy (DC) deputy Salvatore D'Alia. He graduated in law at the University of Messina, and became a cassationist lawyer.^[1]

Career

D'Alia started his career among the ranks of the DC. When the DC was dissolved, he joined the Christian Democratic Centre (CCD). With the CCD, he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for the first time in the 2001 Italian general election. He then joined the Union of the Centre (UdC) in 2002. In 2005, D'Alia became Undersecretary to the Ministry of the Interior in the third Berlusconi government. In the 2006 Italian general election, he was re-elected as a Deputy. He was elected in the constituency of Sicily a member of the Senate of the Republic in the 2008 Italian general election. In the 2013 Italian general election D’Alia was re-elected to the Chamber of Deputies and together with the other members of the UdC joined the Civic Choice (SC) group. In December 2013, he and the others left the SC group to found the new group called For Italy. On 22 March 2014, D’Alia was appointed as president of the UdC,^[2] after losing the race for secretary against Lorenzo Cesa in the fourth national congress of the party.^[3]

In 2015, D'Alia joined the Popular Area (AP) group, together with the other UdC deputies. On 2 November 2016, Cesa suspended D'Alia from the party and referred him to arbitrators, accusing him of highly offensive statements against the same party. He had declared a few days before "the UdC is dead". D'Alia left the UdC to launch Centrists for Sicily (CpS), a new party formed in the Sicilian Regional Assembly (ARS). In 2017, he became the coordinator of Centrists for Europe (CpE), the new party launched by Pier Ferdinando Casini.^[4]