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Giuseppe Conte
Giuseppe Conte (Italian pronunciation: [dʒuˈzɛppe ˈkonte]; born 8
Giuseppe Conte
August 1964) is an Italian jurist and politician serving as the 58th
and current Prime Minister of Italy since 1 June 2018.[4]

A professor of private law, Conte was first proposed on 21 May

2018 for the role of Prime Minister as the head of a coalition
government between the Five Star Movement and the Lega Nord,[5]
but relinquished when Paolo Savona, who was picked for Minister
of Economy and Finance, was vetoed by President Sergio
Mattarella.[6] On 31 May, the two parties reached an agreement
proposing Giovanni Tria as Minister of Economy and Finances and
Conte was called to take oath on the following day.[7]

According to many journalists and political commentators, Conte's

cabinet is the first populist government in Western Europe.[8][9][10].
In response to such statements, Conte mentions in his first speech
to the Senate: "If "populism" is the attitude of the ruling class to
listen to people's needs - inspired by Dostoevsky's reflections from 58th Prime Minister of Italy
the pages of Pushkin - if "anti-system" means to aim to introduce a Incumbent
new system, which removes old privileges and encrustations of
Assumed office
power, well our political forces deserve both these
1 June 2018
qualifications."[11] He was the first person to assume the
President Sergio Mattarella
premiership without prior government or administrative service
since Silvio Berlusconi in 1994, and the first Prime Minister from Deputy Luigi Di Maio
Southern Italy since the Christian Democrat Ciriaco De Mita in Matteo Salvini
1989.[12][13] Preceded by Paolo Gentiloni
Personal details
Born 8 August 1964
Volturara Appula,
Contents Italy
Early life and career Political Independent[1]
Government formation party
Prime Minister of Italy Spouse(s) Valentina Fico
Political views (div.)[2]

Controversies Domestic Olivia Paladino[3]

partner
Authored books
References Children 1

External links Residence Palazzo Chigi

Alma mater Sapienza University

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Early life and career Occupation Professor · lawyer

Website Official website
Giuseppe Conte was born in 1964 at Volturara Appula, near Foggia,
(http://governo.it/il-
[14][15] into a middle-class family. His father Nicola was a public
presidente)
employee in the local municipality, while his mother Lillina Roberti
was an elementary school teacher.[16][17]

After his family moved to San Giovanni Rotondo, Conte attended the classical lyceum in nearby San Marco in
Lamis and then studied Law at the La Sapienza University of Rome, where he graduated in 1988 with
distinction.[18][19][20] For short terms, Conte studied abroad, in 1992 he moved to the United States to study at
Yale Law School and Duquesne University and at the International Culture Institute in Vienna in 1993; later he
attended Sorbonne University in 2000, Girton College, Cambridge, in 2001 and New York University in
2008.[21][22]

He started his academic career during the 1990s, when he taught at Roma Tre University, at LUMSA
University of Rome, at the University of Malta and at the University of Sassari.[19] Conte is currently professor
of private law at the University of Florence and at LUISS of Rome.[23][24] He sits on the board of trustees of
John Cabot University, in Rome.[25]

On 18 September 2013, he was elected by the Chamber of Deputies as a member of the Bureau of
Administrative Justice, the self-governing body of administrative magistrates.[26]

Government formation
In early 2018, Conte was selected by Luigi Di Maio, leader of the
Five Star Movement (M5S), as the future possible Minister of
Public Administration in his cabinet, following the 2018 general
election.[27] However the election resulted in a hung parliament,[28]
with the M5S that became the party with the largest number of
votes and of parliamentary seats, while the centre-right alliance, in
which Matteo Salvini's League emerged as the main political force,
won a plurality of seats in the Chamber of Deputies and in the
Giuseppe Conte at the Quirinal
Senate. The centre-left coalition, led by former Prime Minister
Palace, in May 2018
Matteo Renzi, came third.[29]

On 9 May, after weeks of political deadlock and the failure of

various attempts of forming cabinets both between M5S–Centre-right and M5S–Democratic Party, Di Maio
and Salvini officially requested President Sergio Mattarella to give them 24 more hours to strike a government
agreement between their two parties.[30] Later the same day, in the evening, Silvio Berlusconi publicly
announced Forza Italia would not support a M5S–League government on a vote of confidence, but he would
still maintain the centre-right alliance nonetheless, thus opening the doors to a possible majority government
between the two parties.[31]

On 13 May, Five Star Movement and League reached an agreement in principle on a government program,
likely clearing the way for the formation of a governing coalition between the two parties, but could not find an
agreement regarding the members of a government cabinet, most importantly the prime minister. M5S and
League leaders met with Italian President Sergio Mattarella on 14 May to guide the formation of a new

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government.[32] On their meeting with President Mattarella, both parties asked for an additional week of
negotiations to agree on a detailed government program and a prime minister to lead the joint government.
Both M5S and the League announced their intention to ask their respective members to vote on the
government agreement by the weekend.[33][34]

On 21 May 2018, Conte was proposed by Di Maio and Salvini for

the role of Prime Minister in the 2018 Italian government,[35][36][37]
despite reports in the Italian press suggesting that President
Mattarella still had significant reservations about the direction of
the new government.[38] On 23 May 2018, Conte was invited to the
Quirinal Palace to receive the presidential mandate to form a new
cabinet.[39][40] In the traditional statement after the appointment,
Conte said that he would be the "defense lawyer of Italian
Giuseppe Conte with President
people".[41]
Sergio Mattarella at the Quirinal
Palace However on 27 May, Conte renounced to his office, due to contrasts
between Salvini and President Mattarella. In fact, Salvini proposed
the university professor Paolo Savona as Minister of Economy and
Finances, but Mattarella strongly opposed him, considering Savona too Eurosceptic and anti-German.[42] In
his speech after Conte's resignation, Mattarella declared that the two parties wanted to bring Italy out of the
Eurozone, and as the guarantor of Italian Constitution and country's interest and stability he could not allow
this.[43][44]

On the following day, Mattarella gave Carlo Cottarelli, a former director of the International Monetary Fund,
the task of forming a new government.[45] On 28 May 2018, the Democratic Party (PD) announced that it
would abstain from voting the confidence to Cottarelli, while the Five Star Movement and the center-right
parties Forza Italia (FI), Brothers of Italy (FdI) and the League announced their vote against.[46][47]

Cottarelli was expected to submit his list of ministers for approval to President Mattarella on 29 May.
However, on 29 May and 30 May he held only informal consultations with the President, waiting for the
formation of a “political government”.[48][49] Meanwhile, Matteo Salvini and Luigi Di Maio announced their
willingness to restart the negotiations to form a political government, and Giorgia Meloni, leader of FdI, gave
her support to the initiative.[48][49][50] On May 31, M5S and the League declared of having reached an
agreement about forming a new government, without Paolo Savona as finance minister (he would became
minister of European affairs instead), and with Conte at its head.[51][52]

Prime Minister of Italy

On 1 June 2018, Conte officially succeeded the Democrat Paolo Gentiloni at the head of the Italian
government, swearing as new Prime Minister in the afternoon.[53] His cabinet was predominantly composed by
members of the M5S and the League, but also by prominent independent technocrats like the Minister of
Foreign Affairs, Enzo Moavero Milanesi, who previously served as Minister of European Affairs in the
government of Mario Monti, the university professor Giovanni Tria, as Minister of Economy and Finances, and
the notable economist Paolo Savona, who served in the cabinet of Carlo Azeglio Ciampi in 1990s and currently
known for his Eurosceptic views, that would become the new Minister of European Affairs.[54][55]

Both parties' leaders Salvini and Di Maio were appointed Deputy Prime Ministers; moreover, while the first

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became Minister of the Interior, with the main aim of drastically reducing the number of illegal immigrants,
the latter served as Minister of Economic Development, Labour and Social Policies, to introduce the universal
basic income.[56][57]

The coalition of the two populist parties which Conte led was also known as Government of Change,[58] thanks
to a document that summarized the electoral programmes of the two parties, which was called “Contract for
the Government of Change”.[59][60]

On 5 June, during his speech before the investiture vote in the Italian Senate, Conte announced his willingness
to reduce illegal immigration and increase the contrast to human traffickers and smugglers. He also advocated
a fight against political corruption, the introduction of a law which regulates the conflict of interests, a new bill
which expands the right of self-defense, a taxes reduction and a drastic cut to politics's costs, thanks to the
annuities' abolition.[61][62] Conte also proudly claimed of being populist and anti-establishment, if they mean
listening to the people.[63][64] The Senate approved the confidence vote with 171 votes in favor and 117 against,
with 25 abstentions.[65] The cabinet was supported by M5S, Lega, two senators from MAIE and two
independents, while the Democratic Party, Forza Italia, Free and Equal and other small leftists parties voted
against it. The far-right Brothers of Italy and other ten independent senators abstained.[66]

Political views
During an interview in 2018, Conte declared himself a voter of the
left-wing, before approaching the Five Star Movement during early
2010s. He also added that today "the ideological schemes of the
20th century are no longer adequate to represent the current
political system" and it should be "more important and correct to
evaluate the work of a political force on how it is positioned on the
respect of fundamental rights and freedoms."[67] During the
investiture speech in the Italian Parliament, Conte proudly asserted
Giuseppe Conte in May 2018
of being a populist.[68]

He opposed the "hypertrophy of Italian laws", advocating the

repeal of useless laws and supported a simplification of bureaucracy.[69] Conte strongly opposed the school
reform legislation promoted by Matteo Renzi's government in 2015, known as "The Good School", which must
be completely revised.[70]

Conte is an observant Roman Catholic and a votary to Padre Pio of Pietrelcina.[71]

Controversies
On 21 May 2018, when the name of Giuseppe Conte was proposed to President Mattarella as candidate for
Prime Minister,[36] The New York Times, questioning his summer stays at New York University listed in his
official curriculum vitae,[21] published an article asserting that a NYU spokeswoman did not find the name of
Conte in university "records as either a student or faculty member".[72][73] The next day, the Associated Press,
in an article published also by The New York Times, reported that the NYU spokeswoman added that "While
Mr. Conte had no official status at NYU, he was granted permission to conduct research in the NYU law
library" during the period listed in his official CV.[21][74] Similarly, the Duquesne University of Pittsburgh and

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the University of Malta found no record of him in their archives,[75] although it was confirmed that Conte held
lectures "at the old university building in Valletta", Malta, for the Foundation for International Studies.[76] Yale
University, contacted by another newspaper, also confirmed that he studied there for three months.[77]

Authored books
Il volontariato. Libertà dei privati e mediazione giuridica dello Stato. Rome: Pioda. 1996.
Matrimonio civile e teoria della simulazione. Rome: Pioda. 1996.
La simulazione del matrimonio nella teoria del negozio giuridico. Padua: CEDAM. 1999.
Le regole della solidarità. Iniziative non profit dei privati e mediazione dei pubblici poteri. Rome: Pioda.
2001.
Il danno non patrimoniale. Milan: Giuffrè. 2018.
La formazione del contratto. Milan: Giuffrè. 2018.

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External links
University of Florence personal page (https://www.unifi.it/p-doc2-2016-0-A-2b333b2d322c-1.html)
(including CV and publication list in English)
Giuseppe Conte (https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.url?authorId=56694000500) publications indexed
by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier. (subscription required)

Political offices

Preceded by Prime Minister of Italy

Incumbent
Paolo Gentiloni 2018–present

Order of precedence

Preceded by
Order of precedence of Succeeded by
Roberto Fico
Italy Giorgio Lattanzi
as President of the
as Prime Minister as President of the Constitutional Court
Chamber of Deputies

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