Mario Mantovani
Mario Mantovani is an Italian politician, Member of the European Parliament 1999–2009 for North-West with the Forza Italia, part of the European People's Party, Italian Senator and Vice-minister of Infrastructures and Transports since 2008. Since 2001, he is also mayor of the municipality of Arconate. On 13 October 2015, he was arrested in Milan, accused of corruption, bid-rigging, and misdirection of public funds for school construction and patients needing dialysis transport, between 2012 and 2014, while Vice President of Lombardy.Education
- 1975: graduate in foreign languages and literature
Career
- 1969–1994: lecturer
- 1994–1999: businessman in the non-profit-making sector
- since 1996: chair of the 'Mantovani' Foundation
- In Forza Italia
- since 2001: national official responsible for social policies
- since 2003: national official responsible for the Electoral Office
- Member of the Regional Executive and then Mayor of the municipality of Arconate
- 1999–2009: member of the European Parliament
- 2008: Senator
- 2008: Vice-minister of Infrastructures and Transports in the Berlusconi government
