Valerio Zanone

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| name = Valerio Zanone

| image = Valerio Riccardo Zanone datisenato 2006.jpg

| office = Mayor of Turin

| term_start = 30 July 1990

| term_end = 11 February 1992

| predecessor = Maria Magnani Noya

| successor = Giovanna Cattaneo Incisa

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| 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 Industry, Commerce and Craftmanship

| term_start3 = 1 August 1986

| term_end3 = 3 March 1987

| primeminister3 = Bettino Craxi

| predecessor3 = Renato Altissimo

| successor3 = Franco Piga

| office4 = Minister of the Environment

| term_start4 = 30 July 1984

| term_end4 = 1 August 1986

| primeminister4 = Bettino Craxi

| predecessor4 = Alfredo Biondi

| successor4 = Francesco De Lorenzo

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| office5 = Member of the Senate of the Republic

| term_start5 = 27 April 2006

| term_end5 = 28 April 2008

| constituency5 = Lombardy

| office6 = Member of the Chamber of Deputies

| term_start6 = 23 April 1992

| term_end6 = 14 April 1994

| constituency6 = Turin

| term_start7 = 5 July 1976

| term_end7 = 8 November 1990

| constituency7 = Turin

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1936|1|22|df=y}}

| birth_place = Turin, Italy

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2016|1|7|1936|1|22|df=y}}

| 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)

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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.

Biography

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.

Electoral history

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width=12%\|Election ! width=25%\|House ! width=25%\|Constituency ! width=5% colspan="2"\|Party ! width=12%\|Votes ! width=12%\|Result
1970 \| Regional Council of Piedmont \| Turin \| bgcolor="{{party color\|Italian Liberal Party}}" \| \| PLI \| 6,254 \| {{tick\|15}} Elected
1975 \| Regional Council of Piedmont \| Turin \| bgcolor="{{party color\|Italian Liberal Party}}" \| \| PLI \| 5,511 \| {{tick\|15}} Elected
1976 \| Chamber of Deputies \| Turin–Novara–Vercelli \| bgcolor="{{party color\|Italian Liberal Party}}" \| \| PLI \| 14,665 \| {{tick\|15}} Elected
1979 \| Chamber of Deputies \| Turin–Novara–Vercelli \| bgcolor="{{party color\|Italian Liberal Party}}" \| \| PLI \| 19,821 \| {{tick\|15}} Elected
1983 \| Chamber of Deputies \| Turin–Novara–Vercelli \| bgcolor="{{party color\|Italian Liberal Party}}" \| \| PLI \| 27,844 \| {{tick\|15}} Elected
1987 \| Chamber of Deputies \| Turin–Novara–Vercelli \| bgcolor="{{party color\|Italian Liberal Party}}" \| \| PLI \| 14,005 \| {{tick\|15}} Elected
1992 \| Chamber of Deputies \| Turin–Novara–Vercelli \| bgcolor="{{party color\|Italian Liberal Party}}" \| \| PLI \| 18,419 \| {{tick\|15}} Elected
2006 \| Senate of the Republic \| Lombardy \| bgcolor="{{party color\|The Daisy}}" \| \| DL \| –{{efn\|Elected in a closed list proportional representation system.}} \| {{tick\|15}} Elected

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1970

| Regional Council of Piedmont

| Turin

| bgcolor="{{party color|Italian Liberal Party}}" |

| PLI