Biography of Rosario Crocetta
Rosario Crocetta was born on 8 February 1951 in Gela, Sicily, the son of a seamstress and a clerk at aqueduct, the younger brother of Salvatore Crocetta (future Senator of the Italian Communist Party). After graduating, he began working at the plant Eni of his hometown. Afterwards begins to collaborate with "unity" and "Il Manifesto".
The years ' 80 and ' 90
In 1987 gives published a collection of poems entitled "diary of a merry-go-round." Adheres to Pci and then joining the Communist Refoundation, under whose banners becomes head of culture in Gela in 1996: keep the charge for two years, until 1998, when he was elected city councilman with the Federation of the Greens; in the same period, Rosario Crocetta is appointed consultant of Savior after $1 million goes, regional Minister for cultural heritage. In this post, which preserves until 2000, develop various cultural projects they see Sicily partner with foreign countries.The years 2000
He signed up to the party of Italian Communists, in 2000 Crocetta's new city councilor in Gela, with responsibility for education. Leaving office in 2001, and the following year is a candidate for Mayor with the support of the centre-left Alliance. The election saw the victory of centre-right candidate Giovanni Scaglione, who gets almost 200 more preferences than Tick; the latter, however, has an appeal to the regional administrative court, which orders a new perusal from which it appears that the candidate of the Center has received more than 300 votes more than the opponent, as a result of irregularity and various offences during the initial examination.Mayor in Gela
Rosario Crocetta thus becomes the Mayor of Gela, even through an election campaign based on the intention to counter Cosa Nostra and mafia. By following this path, decides to lay off municipal employees in odor of organised crime and have carried out tenders for public works in the presence of law enforcement. After four years as Mayor, decide to apply again: administrative consultations 2007 will remain at the helm of Gela, with just under 65% of the votes collected in the first round. In 2008 Anna Finocchiaro, presidential candidate of the Sicily region, offers Cross as Alderman for public works at an election: the Finocchiaro, however, was defeated, and Tick remains Mayor in Gela. A few months later he joined the Democratic Party, born recently. The following year he was a candidate in the list of the Democratic Party at the European elections in the constituency insular Italy: gets more than 150,000 votes and was elected to the European Parliament. Decides, therefore, to resign as Mayor and to pursue career as a euro mp.The years 2010
In April 2012 was appointed Vice-President of the Antimafia Commission of the EU, while in August of the same year is a candidate for the Presidency of the Sicilian region, officially supported by the Democratic Party, even from the Psi, the Api and the Udc.At the helm of the Sicilian region
Gaining 30.5% of the vote, to October Crocetta is elected President: electoral success, however, is not such as to guarantee him the majority of the Regional Council, since it leads to having only 39 seats out of a total of 90. On 10 November of 2012 he enters officially in charge, while in December resigned as an MEP. Meanwhile, shape her boot, which includes inter alia Lucia Borsellino (as town councillor for health), Antonino Zichichi (as Alderman for cultural heritage), Franco Battiato (as Minister of tourism, Sport and entertainment) and Nicholas Marino, Prosecutor of the Dda (as Deputy Mayor for Energy and public services). In the first weeks as President Announces closure of thirteen regional societies, regional managers ' salaries, cutting the dismissal of more than twenty reporters appointed former Presidents press officers and cutting external consultants. Also decides that Sicily should civil action in the process under way in Palermo on the negotiation State-mafia. In March of 2013 reveals the intention to eliminate the provinces, creating in their place of consortia between the towns: la norma passes the Regional Assembly thanks to 53 votes in favor. Later, approving a resolution that involves increasing the number of regional employees engaged in the Brussels Office, from three to eighteen, and declares the intention to divest several automobile blue. In the same year he published by Longanesi's book "and I'm not going to do-from Sicily who wants to Italy to come".Legal facts
In April 2014 Crocetta is suspected by prosecutors of the Court of Auditors for a year to State revenues of more than two million. In July 2015 he suspended himself as Chairman following the publication of several wiretaps by the "Espresso" which they see as a debated and controversial conversation with your doctor (whom talking about Lucia Borsellino, daughter of the magistrate Paolo Borsellino, would declare: "must be done outside, like his father").Article contributed by the team of collaborators.