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Mario Mantovani

Mario Emilio Mantovani (born 28 July 1950, in Arconate) is an Italian politician. He has been Member of the European Parliament, a mayor, a senator, the Undersecretary for Infrastructure and Transport under Berlusconi, and Vice-President of the Lombardy Region.

In 2022, he was acquitted on appeal of corruption charges. In 2024, he was re-elected for a third mandate in the European Parliament, fifteen years after the end of his second mandate.

His daughter is the deputy of the Brothers of Italy Lucrezia Mantovani.

Mantovani graduated in foreign languages and literature in 1975. From 1981 to 1986 he was director of the Padre Beccaro Institute in Milan.

In 1990 he founded the Sodalitas non-profit organization, which in Bellaria-Igea Marina has a series of residences and summer camps.

In 1996 he opened the Mantovani Foundation, specialized in the construction and management of nursing homes for the elderly. With his appointment as undersecretary in 2008 he leaves the presidency of the Mantovani Foundation, leaving the guide to his family.

Mantovani owns the Immobiliare Vigevanese company, as well as the Mantovani Foundation. With the first he builds social welfare residences and with the second he manages four RSAs in the province of Milan which, added to those led by Sodalitas, make eleven structures and 830 beds, all accredited in the Lombardy region rankings. It also manages 13 day care centers for the disabled managed on behalf of the ASL of Milan 1.

In 1999 he was elected MEP among the ranks of Forza Italia with 39,000 preferences and was re-elected in 2004 with 50,000 preferences. He sat in the European People's Party group. In 2008 he was elected to the Senate and left the seat in the European Parliament to Iva Zanicchi.

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