|
|
| Line 1: |
Line 1: |
| {{Infobox officeholder | | {{Infobox officeholder |
| |honorific-prefix = His Excellency<br/>The Right Honourable | | |honorific-prefix = The Right Honourable |
| |name = Erico D'Antonio | | |name = Viviana Andreoli |
| |honorific-suffix = [[Order of Imagua|CI]] | | |honorific-suffix = [[Order of Imagua|CI]] |
| |image = Giuliano_Amato_-_Festival_Economia_2013.JPG | | |image = Eugenia_Charles.jpg |
| |imagesize = 250px | | |imagesize = 250px |
| |caption = D'Antonio, 2013 | | |caption = Viviana Andreoli, 1998 |
| |office = 10th [[President of Imagua and the Assimas]] | | |office = 16th [[Prime Minister of Imagua and the Assimas]] |
| |term_start = 23 April, 2004 | | |term_start = 22 May, 1997 |
| |term_end = 23 April, 2008 | | |term_end = 22 May, 2001 |
| |president = | | |president = [[Ornell Elliott]] |
| |primeminister = [[Agnes Ingram]] | | |primeminister = |
| |predecessor = [[Ornell Elliott]] | | |deputy = [[Edmondo Privitera]] |
| | |predecessor = [[Austin Houghton]] |
| |successor = [[Agnes Ingram]] | | |successor = [[Agnes Ingram]] |
| |office1 = 8th President of Imagua and the Assimas | | |office1 = Member of Parliament for Bencivenga-Lazzari |
| |term_start1 = 23 April, 1992 | | |term_start1 = 23 April, 1992 |
| |term_end1 = 23 April, 1996 | | |term_end1 = 22 May, 2001 |
| |primeminister1 = [[Isaac Egnell]]<br/>[[Austin Houghton]] | | |predecessor1 = ''constituency established'' |
| |predecessor1 = [[Marguerite Ernman]] | | |successor1 = [[Erico D'Antonio]] |
| |successor1 = Ornell Elliott
| | |office2 = Member of Parliament for Bencivenga |
| |office2 = 17th [[Prime Minister of Imagua and the Assimas]] | | |term_start2 = 22 April, 1956 |
| |term_start2 = 22 May, 2001 | | |term_end2 = 23 April, 1992 |
| |term_end2 = 23 April, 2004 | | |predecessor2 = [[Odorico Sirna]] |
| |predecessor2 = [[Viviana Andreoli]] | | |successor2 = ''constituency abolished'' |
| |successor2 = [[Agnes Ingram]] | | |birthname = Viviana Scaffidi |
| |president2 = Ornell Elliott | | |birth_date = {{birth date|1919|8|22|df=y}} |
| |deputy2 = [[Agnes Ingram]] | | |birth_place = [[Bencivenga]], [[Assimas Islands|Assimas]], [[Etruria]] |
| |office3 = Member of Parliament for Bencivenga-Lazzari | | |death_date = {{death date and age|2005|9|6|1919|8|22|df=y}} |
| |term_start3 = 27 May, 2001 | | |death_place = [[San Pietro, Imagua and the Assimas|San Pietro]], [[Assimas Parish]], [[Imagua and the Assimas]] |
| |term_end3 = 22 April, 2004 | |
| |predecessor3 = Viviana Andreoli | |
| |successor3 = [[Nunziata Taddonio]] | |
| |birthname = Erico D'Antonio | |
| |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1938|8|31|df=y}} | |
| |birth_place = [[Bencivenga]], [[Assimas Islands|Nuovo Aeolia]], [[Etruria]] | |
| |death_date =
| |
| |death_place =
| |
| |alma_mater = [[Università di San Pietro]] | | |alma_mater = [[Università di San Pietro]] |
| |nationality = [[Etruria|Etrurian]] (1938-1946)<br/>[[Imagua and the Assimas|Imaguan]] (since 1946) | | |nationality = [[Etruria|Etrurian]] (1919-1946)<br/>[[Imagua and the Assimas|Imaguan]] (since 1946) |
| |profession = | | |profession = |
| |party = [[National Party of Imagua|Nationals]] (since 1981) | | |party = [[Democratic Labour Party of Imagua|Democratic Labour Party]] |
| |otherparty = [[Imaguan Party of Democrats|Party of Democrats]] (1961-1981) | | |otherparty = |
| |religion = | | |religion = |
| |spouse = | | |spouse = |
| Line 65: |
Line 58: |
| | military_data5 = | | | military_data5 = |
| }} | | }} |
| '''Erico D'Antonio''' (b. 31 August, 1938) is a former [[Imagua|Imaguan]] politician, who served as the eighth and tenth [[President of Imagua and the Assimas|Presidents]], serving from 1992 to 1996, and from 2004 to 2008 in this role, making him the first Imaguan President to serve two non-consecutive terms. As well, D'Antonio was the seventeenth [[Prime Minister of Imagua and the Assimas|Prime Minister]], serving from 2001 to his resignation in 2004 to run for the presidency. | | '''Viviana Andreoli''' (22 August, 1919 - 6 September, 2005) was a politician who served as the sixteenth [[Prime Minister of Imagua and the Assimas]], serving from 1997 to 2001. |
| | |
| Starting as a member of the [[Imaguan Party of Democrats]], he unsuccessfully ran in five consecutive general elections between 1964 and 1980, each time failing to displace incumbent member of Parliament [[Viviana Andreoli]]. Following the departure of [[Rupert Cox]] from the party's leadership, and the "disastrous" leadership contest between [[Deborah Hughes]] and [[Riley Gilmore]], D'Antonio joined the [[National Party of Imagua|Conservative Party]].
| |
|
| |
|
| ==Early life== | | ==Early life== |
| Erico D'Antonio was born in the village of [[Bencivenga]] in the [[Etruria|Etrurian]] territory of [[Assimas Islands|Nuovo Aeolia]], to Timoteo D'Antonio, a banker, and to Marianna D'Antonio, as the second of three children, and the youngest son.
| | Viviana Andreoli was born in [[Bencivenga]], which at the time was part of the [[Etruria|Etrurian]] possession of the [[Assimas Islands]], as the youngest of six children to Rolfo Scaffidi, and Ernesta Scaffidi, who were farmers living near Bencivenga. |
| | |
| He started school in 1943, when he began attending the [[Dodato Tancredi School]] in Bencivenga. However, his childhood was marked by the [[Solarian War]], which greatly affected the [[Assimas Islands]] as it was under Etrurian control, while [[Imagua and the Assimas|Imagua]] was allied with [[Estmere]].
| |
| | |
| After the end of the Solarian War, and the reorganization of the Assiman education system, D'Antonio passed the {{wp|eleven-plus}} in 1949, and went to the [[Bencivenga Grammar School]]. In 1953, he passed the {{wp|O-levels}}, allowing him to take {{wp|Sixth Form}}, where two years later, in 1956, he passed the {{wp|A-levels}}.
| |
| | |
| Thus, he went to study at the [[Università di San Pietro]], where he majored in {{wp|theology}}, as he intended to join the [[Solarian Catholic Church|clergy]]. However, while he did obtain a {{wp|bachelor's degree}} in theology in 1959, and a {{wp|master's degree}} in 1961, after hearing a speech from [[Enoch Saunders]], the then-leader of the [[Imaguan Party of Democrats]], he felt that "he found his purpose in life."
| |
| | |
| ==Early political career==
| |
| ===Membership in the Imaguan Party of Democrats===
| |
| [[File:Giuliano_Amato_daticamera.jpg|150px|thumb|right|Erico D'Antonio, 1965]]
| |
| Thus, Erico D'Antonio joined the [[Imaguan Party of Democrats]] that year. As one of the few {{wp|Italian language|Etrurian-speaking}} members of the Imaguan Party of Democrats, he was taken under the wing of [[Rodolfo Osso]], who sought to make him a proper "democrat." Over the next three years, Osso taught D'Antonio "the ins and outs of politics, as it were," and by 1964, was judged to be ready to run in his first election, to represent Bencivenga in the [[Lesser House of Imagua and the Assimas|Lesser House]] of [[Parliament of Imagua and the Assimas|Parliament]].
| |
| | |
| That year, he ran against incumbent [[Democratic Labour Party of Imagua|Democratic Labour]] MP [[Viviana Andreoli]], and [[National Party of Imagua|Conservative]] challenger [[Eberardo De Matteo]]. Despite his local appeal, many of his potential voters did not want the Conservatives to win, which helped allow Andreoli to win her seat, with 56.7% to De Matteo's 24.1%, and D'Antonio's 18.8% of the vote.
| |
| | |
| Despite his loss, Erico D'Antonio became a key figure within the party, especially as Osso became party leader. During this period, Erico D'Antonio, despite his youth, was touted as a potential successor to Rodolfo Osso, as D'Antonio possessed an "uncanny appeal to voters in his hometown of Bencivenga."
| |
| | |
| However, while D'Antonio's results improved in 1968, with him winning 26.2% compared to Conservative [[Giove Tiberio]]'s 21.2% of the vote, he still failed to displace Viviana Andreoli. However, with [[Rupert Cox]] taking over as party leader from Osso, D'Antonio was tapped to be a candidate for the premiership in the next general election.
| |
| | |
| In the 1972 general election, Erico D'Antonio only gained 31.2% of the vote, with Andreoli winning with 57.3% of the vote, and Conservative candidate [[Ermete Cerruti]] taking only 9.8% of the vote. The Imaguan Party of Democrats failed to gain any seats in that year's elections, but in 1973, [[Clelia Pavon]] joined the Party of Democrats. She quickly displaced D'Antonio in stature, as Pavon was a sitting MP, while D'Antonio wasn't a sitting MP.
| |
| | |
| Despite this, he ran again in 1976, and in 1980, with D'Antonio placing second to Viviana Andreoli with 31.3% in 1976, and 32.9% in 1980. While during this period, the Party of Democrats achieved their greatest representation in Parliament, with a peak of two seats in the Lesser House following [[Ted Branson]]'s election in a 1978 by-election, by 1980, the Party of Democrats were wiped off the political map.
| |
| | |
| After the resignation of Rupert Cox, the 1981 leadership convention between [[Deborah Hughes]] and [[Riley Gilmore]] "was so contentious and heated that it took everything else of the party," and that "associations were fighting with associations." In light of this, while D'Antonio was invited to join the newly-established [[Libertarian Party of Imagua|Libertarian Party]] by Branson, he instead chose to leave the Imaguan Party of Democrats, and instead join the Conservatives.
| |
| | |
| ===Early Conservative career===
| |
| When Erico D'Antonio joined the [[National Party of Imagua|Conservative Party]] in August 1981, his old constituency association "migrated en masse," effectively merging with the Conservative constituency association.
| |
| | |
| On one hand, the Conservatives were delighted that D'Antonio had joined the Conservatives, as his popularity had split the right-wing vote in the constituency of Bencivenga between the [[Imaguan Party of Democrats]] and the Conservatives, while him bringing "the entirety of the local IPD association" was seen as a boon to the party itself. However, his defection from the Imaguan Party of Democrats led to concerns that he might do the same in the future to the Conservatives.
| |
| | |
| This meant that Erico D'Antonio was, despite his successes, sidelined, and was not nominated in 1984, instead choosing [[Averardo Maffucci]]. However, Maffucci polled better than any Conservative candidate, with the 1984 election results having incumbent [[Democratic Labour Party of Imagua|Democratic Labour]] MP [[Viviana Andreoli]] win with only 53.1% of the vote, with Maffucci taking 41.4% of the vote.
| |
| | |
| During the next four years, Erico D'Antonio sought to improve his reputation in the Conservative Party, with the intention of running against Andreoli again in 1988. To this end, he firmly aligned himself with the moderate faction of the Conservatives, led by Conservative leader [[Marino Guccio]].
| |
| | |
| By 1987, he was nominated to run against Viviana Andreoli. Thus, at the 1988 general election campaign, Erico D'Antonio came close to unseating Andreoli, garnering 47.7% compared to Andreoli's 48.6%, despite the popularity of [[Edmondo Privitera]] and his government in his constituency.
| |
| | |
| This defeat meant that D'Antonio was forced to resign from the position of chairman of constituency association, although he remained in the party. At the same time, Erico D'Antonio gained more attraction at the national level, as with the maximum term limit approaching, the next [[President of Imagua and the Assimas|Imaguan President]] would have to be of Etrurian origin.
| |
| | |
| While [[Marino Guccio]] was seen as wanting to run for the presidential nomination, former President [[Isaac Egnell]] made a deal, where if D'Antonio agreed to support Egnell's premiership aspirations, Egnell would support D'Antonio's bid.
| |
| | |
| Thus, at the 1991 leadership convention, Isaac Egnell was nominated to run for the premiership, while Erico D'Antonio was to run for the presidency.
| |
| | |
| His opponent, Prime Minister [[Edmondo Privitera]] was nominated by the DLP for the presidency, while Privitera's deputy prime minister, [[Gerald Larsson]] was nominated to run for the premiership in the 1992. While they were initially neck-to-neck in polls, by mid-February the [[National Reform Party of Imagua|National Reform Party]] gained ground.
| |
| | |
| By 27 March, 1992, Erico D'Antonio won the popular vote 37.2%, compared to Privitera's 35.2%, making him the President.
| |
| | |
| ==Political zenith==
| |
| ===First term as President===
| |
| [[File:Giuliano_Amato_1992.jpg|150px|thumb|left|Erico D'Antonio, 1993]]
| |
| On 23 April, 1992, Erico D'Antonio was inaugurated as the eighth [[President of Imagua and the Assimas]], succeeding [[Marguerite Ernman]]. That day, he named his cabinet, led by [[Prime Minister of Imagua and the Assimas|Prime Minister]] [[Isaac Egnell]].
| |
| | |
| As {{wp|head of state}} of [[Imagua and the Assimas]], Erico D'Antonio's role was primarily ceremonial. Thus, he spent much of his tenure as president travelling across the [[Kylaris|world]] to represent Imagua at international events and organisations. However, as President, he also served as an active leader, helping shape government policy, such as reducing regulations implemented by his predecessors, while overseeing the decriminalisation of {{wp|homosexuality|homosexual relations}} in 1993.
| |
| | |
| (TBC)
| |
| | |
| ==Personal life==
| |
| ===Political views===
| |
| Erico D'Antonio considers himself to a {{wp|neoliberalism|neoliberal}} {{wp|conservatism|conservative}}, saying that "while I do believe that we should preserve the ways of old, I do think that economically, we need to preserve the right for all to carry themselves up with their own bootstraps."
| |
| | |
| (TBC)
| |
