Forza Italia Giovani

The Forza Italia Giovani (English: Forward Italy Youth) is the youth wing of Forza Italia.

History[]

Forza Italia Giovani was created as an internal department of Forza Italia in 1996 under the leadership of Andrea Di Teodoro. In 1999 took place the fundative congress which elected as the new chairman of the organization. In a few years Forza Italia Giovani grown and became the strongest youth political movement in Italy with his strongholds in northern and southern zones of the country while having some flaws in the centre. In 2006 is elected to the Chamber of Deputies and Beatrice Lorenzin succeed him as leader of Forza Italia Giovani. Two years later Lorenzin became an MP as well and Francesco Pasquali was appointed as new national chairman of the organization. Following the official birth of the People of Freedom also Forza Italia Giovani was merged with Azione Giovani in order to create the new youth movement of italian centre-right: the Young Italy.

Following the reviving of Forza Italia, in 2014 also Forza Italia Giovani was brought back to life and the MP Annagrazia Calabria became the new national chairman. Armando Cesaro was named deputy leader of the organization, while became the national responsible of the organization.

In 2018 Annagrazia Calabria left the leadership of the organization and was succeeded by Stefano Cavedagna.^[1]

In 2019 Cavedagna left Forza Italia to join Brothers of Italy^[2] and on 3 August 2019 Silvio Berlusconi named Marco Bestetti as the new national chairman of Forza Italia Giovani.^[3]

Leaders[]

• Andrea Di Teodoro (1996 - 1999)
• Simone Baldelli (1999 - 2006)
• Beatrice Lorenzin (2006 - 2008)
• Francesco Pasquali (2008 - 2009)

merged in to the Young Italy (2009-2014)

• Annagrazia Calabria (2014 – 2018)
• Stefano Cavedagna (2018 – 2019)
• Marco Bestetti (2019 – present)

References[]

External links[]

• (in Italian) Official Website

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