Giuseppe Conte

He was Prime Minister of Italy from June 2018 to February 2021 and has led the Five Star Movement since August 2021. He sits in the Chamber of Deputies. He is named as a possible Prime Minister of Italy in the next general election.

Career

Conte taught private law at several universities and sat on the Council of Administrative Justice from 2013 to 2018. He became Prime Minister on 1 June 2018 as an independent, leading two governments until 13 February 2021. His governments introduced a guaranteed minimum income, cut the number of parliamentarians by constitutional reform, nationalised the highway company ASPI, and ran the Covid-19 response including the first lockdown in the West. He has been president of the Five Star Movement since August 2021 and a deputy since October 2022.

Positions

Wikipedia describes Conte as a techno-populist leader who began as an independent technocrat. He has been called the people's lawyer, after his first speech as Prime Minister. Critics objected to extensive use of executive decrees during the pandemic, and his foreign policy stance towards Russia and early support for Donald Trump drew debate.

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