Valerio Carrara

Valerio Carrara (3 March 1951 – 9 February 2022) was an Italian politician.

Valerio Carrara
Carrara in 2008
Member of the Senate of the Republic of Italy
In office 30 May 2001 – 14 March 2013
Constituency	Lombardy
Personal details
Born	(1951-03-03)3 March 1951 Oltre il Colle, Italy
Died	9 February 2022(2022-02-09) (aged 70) Seriate, Italy
Political party	IdV (until 2001) FI (2001–2009) PdL (2009–2011)

In the 2001 election, he was elected to the Senate in the lists of Italy of Values, a dissident centre-left party led by Antonio di Pietro. However, soon after the election, he left Italy of Values and joined the centre-right House of Freedoms coalition, an action for which he was accused of careerism and hypocrisy.^[1]

In 2004 he formally joined Forza Italia and, later, The People of Freedom and he served in the Senate of the Republic from 2001 to 2013. In 2011, he joined the National Cohesion parliamentary group, remaining in the centre-right coalition.^[2]

He died in Seriate on 9 February 2022, at the age of 70 due to a heart attack.^[3]

References

1. "Da Di Pietro al Polo Carrara, il primo ribaltonista". la Repubblica. 30 May 2001.
2. "Valerio CARRARA". Openpolitici (in Italian). Archived from the original on 14 March 2022.
3. "Addio a Valerio Carrara, aveva 70 anni: fu senatore e sindaco di Oltre il Colle". L'Eco di Bergamo (in Italian). 9 February 2022. Archived from the original on 14 March 2022. Retrieved 13 February 2022.