In June 2018, a new Prime Minister appeared in Italy. He became an experienced lawyer Giuseppe Conte. His nomination became possible after the adoption by the leading political forces of the country of an agreement on the creation of a coalition government. The new head of the cabinet loves football and owns his own company.
From the biography of Giuseppe Conte
The future Prime Minister of Italy was born in the city of Volturara Appula, which is located in the south of the country. Giuseppe's birthday is August 8, 1964.
Conte's father was the secretary of the communal council; his mother worked as a teacher. Subsequently, the family moved from Giuseppe's hometown to San Giovanni Rotondo. Giuseppe studied only "excellent". He loved to play football and often acted as a team coach. Friends of childhood recall that Giuseppe was very religious from a young age.
In 1988, Conte graduated with honors from the Sapienza University of Rome, Faculty of Law. In 1992, he completed a professional internship at Yale University (USA), in 2000 he did internships at the Sorbonne, and then at Cambridge (2001).
Conte is the author of several monographs. He wrote scientific articles on various types of law. Giuseppe is fond of tennis and is a passionate fan of the football club "Roma". Conte is divorced. He has a son.
First steps in a career
Upon graduation, Conte becomes a member of the government commission for the reform of the Italian Civil Code. The goal of such a reform was to introduce uniform legal regulation of social enterprises and non-profit organizations.
In subsequent years, Giuseppe taught various types of law at several universities.
Since 2006, Conte has supervised the courses at the Luiss Business School, and has also led specialization courses at the Law School of the University of Florence.
In 2009, Conte was included in a group of consultants to the Italian government who were developing crisis management reform for large enterprises.
Then Giuseppe became a member of the board of directors of the country's space agency. From 2012 to 2015, he participated in the work of the Financial Banking Arbitration. After that, he was included in the Legal Affairs Council under the President of Italy.
Conte is a member of the Roman Bar Association. He is also a lawyer in the Supreme Court of Cassation, and also heads his own law firm.
Way to the top of power
Following the results of the parliamentary elections in Italy in the spring of 2018, the participants in the election race decided to form a coalition government. So that the two victorious parties could reach an agreement, they nominated a person who did not belong to any of the parties as a candidate for the post of prime minister of the country. This candidate was Giuseppe Conte.
In May 2018, representatives of the ubiquitous press found a lot of mistakes in Conte's official biography. Questions arose about his internship at the University of New York. The fact is that the American The New York Times published a statement by a representative of an educational institution stating that a person named Giuseppe Conte had never been listed as a student or teacher in university documents. However, it turned out that Conte could well attend short-term courses, data on which are not received in the archive.
There was also doubt about the internship at the Vienna International Institute of Culture: this institution is purely linguistic. It also turned out that in 2013 Conte defended the interests of a sick girl and obtained permission to use a method for treating neurodegenerative diseases, which did not pass a clinical examination. The author of the technique was subsequently expelled from the scientific community.
Journalists did not find data about Comte and in the database of the world-famous Sorbonne. In addition, the future prime minister did not indicate a specific university that is part of this ramified educational system.
Conte also formally claimed that in 1997 he lectured on banking law at the University of Malta. However, there was no actual evidence of this. It is assumed that Conte worked in one of the programs of the Foundation for International Education, with which the University of Malta has a cooperation agreement.
Ignoring minor biographical inconsistencies, Italian President Mattarella at the end of May 2018 invited Conte to become the head of the cabinet. However, after four days, Conte returned his mandate. In the government project, he was not satisfied with the candidacy of the Minister of Economy: economist Paolo Savona was known for his "anti-European" views. For this reason, Conte refused to accept the authority to form a new government.
As a result, the leaders who gained the main votes in the elections agreed on another version of the coalition government. On June 1, 2018, President Mattarella approved the new cabinet, which was headed by Conte. All members of the government took the oath of oath and set to work.
