Valerio Zanone | |
Office: | Mayor of Turin |
Term Start: | 30 July 1990 |
Term End: | 11 February 1992 |
Predecessor: | Maria Magnani Noya |
Successor: | Giovanna Cattaneo Incisa |
Office2: | Minister of Defence |
Term Start2: | 28 July 1987 |
Term End2: | 22 July 1989 |
Primeminister2: | Giovanni Goria Ciriaco De Mita |
Predecessor2: | Remo Gaspari |
Successor2: | Mino Martinazzoli |
Office3: | Minister of the Environment |
Term Start3: | 30 July 1984 |
Term End3: | 1 August 1986 |
Primeminister3: | Bettino Craxi |
Predecessor3: | Alfredo Biondi |
Successor3: | Francesco De Lorenzo |
Office4: | Minister of Industry, Commerce and Craftmanship |
Term Start4: | 1 August 1986 |
Term End4: | 3 March 1987 |
Primeminister4: | Bettino Craxi |
Predecessor4: | Renato Altissimo |
Successor4: | Franco Piga |
Office5: | Member of the Chamber of Deputies |
Term Start5: | 5 July 1976 |
Term End5: | 14 April 1994 |
Office6: | Member of the Senate of the Republic |
Term Start6: | 27 April 2006 |
Term End6: | 28 April 2008 |
Birth Date: | 22 January 1936 |
Birth Place: | Turin, Italy |
Death Place: | Rome, Italy |
Nationality: | Italian |
Party: | PLI (1955–1993) ULD (1993–1995) FdL (1995-2004) DL (2004–2007) PD (2007–2010) ApI (2010–2016) |
Valerio Zanone (22 January 1936 – 7 January 2016) was an Italian politician, who was formerly secretary and president of the Italian Liberal Party (Partito Liberale Italiano, PLI). He was also a senator for the Democratic Party (Partito Democratico, PD), and was mayor of Turin from 1990 to 1992.
Zanone was born in Turin. He graduated in philosophy from the University of Turin. After entering the Italian Liberal Party, he was a regional councillor in Piedmont, and was a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies from 1976 to 1994. In the same year he was first elected as a deputy, Zanone was appointed as national secretary of the PLI, and was later president of the same.
In 1985, Zanone was appointed Minister of Ecology in the first Bettino Craxi cabinet, and was Minister of Industry during Craxi's second tenure (1986–87) and Minister of Defence in the Goria and De Mita cabinets (1987–89). He was mayor of Turin for a year and a half (1990–92).
After the Tangentopoli scandal and the dissolution of the PLI in 1993, Zanone formed a centre-left movement in Piedmont, the Liberal Democratic Union (Unione Liberaldemocratica; ULD). Later, he participated in the foundation of the L'Ulivo coalition, and adhered to The Daisy (La Margherita; DL) centre party.