Biography

Born in 1946. Former Senator elected on the Radical Party list.

Former Leader of the European Federalist Group for the Environment in the Senate. A member of the Radical Party since 1972 he was Secretary of the Lombardia Radical Party, and President of the Federal Council in 1982. One of the promoters of the "Rainbow Greens" list, he was also a Member of the European Parliament. He denounced, together with Domenico Modugno and with the collaboration of Radical Radio and "Espresso", the abominable conditions in which the inmates of the Agrigento mental hospital were forced to live. Actually is Justice UnderSecretary of State.

Member of the TRP in: 1996, 1997

1997 Membership declaration

Rome, September 12, 1997

Dear Oliver,

Recent events in Israel remind me of the Transnational Radical Party's Federal Council that we held in Jerusalem some years ago. On that occasion I stated that the new TRP's characteristics needed a renewal in the direction of the party ant that new force was personified by these young fellows that were committing themselves full-time to the difficult construction of a transnational political subject.
Your international responsibility and rewards, mainly the Consultative Status with the United Nations, confirm the successful pursuit of a line that, despite its contiguity and ambiguity with the Italian politics that I do not share, is starting to achieve its objectives.

After a long rumination I have decided to accept your invitation to join the Party, and to affirm TRP's distinctive character and contribute to the campaigns for the universal abolition of the death penalty and for the establishment, in Rome, of an International Criminal Court. Two initiatives that are to me particularly meaningful.
Another issue that I endorse is the international debate on antiprohibitionism on drugs.

I take the occasion to share with you my anguish and our impotence and incapacity about the Algerian tragedy.

Cordially,

Franco Corleone