Domenico Comino

Domenico Comino
Domenico Comino
	Comino in 1994
Minister for the Coordination of European Union Policies
	In office; 10 May 1994 – 17 January 1995
Prime Minister	Silvio Berlusconi
Preceded by	Livio Paladin
Succeeded by	Enrico Letta
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
	In office; 23 April 1992 – 29 May 2001
Personal details
Born	27 September 1955 (age 68); Morozzo, Italy
Political party	Northern League (1989-1999)
Alma mater	University of Turin
Occupation	Politician, agronomist

Domenico Comino (born 27 September 1955) is an Italian politician, who served as the minister of European affairs and state minister in the mid-1990s.

Biography[edit]

Comino was born in Morozzo on 27 September 1955.^[1] He is one of the former leaders of Lega Nord.^[2] He served as state minister for the EU relations in the first cabinet of Silvio Berlusconi in 1994.^[3] Comino was one of the five Lega members in the cabinet who resigned from office in December 1994 in order to vote against Berlusconi in the censure motion.^[4]

Comino served in the Italian parliament for three successive periods between 1992 and 1997.^[1] Until 1999 he was the Lega Nord's president of the Piedmont region.^[5] In 1999, he was expelled from Lega Nord and joined an electoral alliance with Forza Italia.^[6]

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b "Domenico Comino" (in Italian). Retrieved 11 September 2021.
^ Danièle Caramani; Yves Meny (2005). Challenges to Consensual Politics: Democracy, Identity, and Populist Protest in the Alpine Region. Peter Lang. p. 118. ISBN 978-90-5201-250-6.
^ Markus Thiel (2009). The 'militant Democracy' Principle in Modern Democracies. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 215. ISBN 978-1-4094-9679-3.
^ Federiga Bindi (2011). Italy and the European Union. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press. p. 116. ISBN 978-0-8157-0509-3.
^ Benito Giordano (2001). "The contrasting geographies of 'Padania': The case of Lega Nord in Northern Italy" (PDF). Area. 33 (1): 27–37. doi:10.1111/1475-4762.00005.
^ Fabrizio Capogrosso (February 2009). To What Extent Does Europeanization Affect National Political Parties?. Norderstedt: GRIN Verlag. p. 12. ISBN 978-3-640-26263-2.

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[senato-1] "Domenico Comino" (in Italian). Retrieved 11 September 2021.

[2] Danièle Caramani; Yves Meny (2005). Challenges to Consensual Politics: Democracy, Identity, and Populist Protest in the Alpine Region. Peter Lang. p. 118. ISBN 978-90-5201-250-6.

[3] Markus Thiel (2009). The 'militant Democracy' Principle in Modern Democracies. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 215. ISBN 978-1-4094-9679-3.

[4] Federiga Bindi (2011). Italy and the European Union. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press. p. 116. ISBN 978-0-8157-0509-3.

[5] Benito Giordano (2001). "The contrasting geographies of 'Padania': The case of Lega Nord in Northern Italy" (PDF). Area. 33 (1): 27–37. doi:10.1111/1475-4762.00005.

[6] Fabrizio Capogrosso (February 2009). To What Extent Does Europeanization Affect National Political Parties?. Norderstedt: GRIN Verlag. p. 12. ISBN 978-3-640-26263-2.

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