Guido Crosetto
He held the office of provincial councilor of Cuneo from 1999 to 2009, holding the position of group leader of Forza Italia (FI), the centre-right political movement member of European People's Party (EPP) which was founded by the billionaire and media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi and which he joined in 2000.Crosetto and Santanchè in FdI represented the small and medium-sized enterprises of Northern Italy in the 2018 Italian general election and they became respectively members of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate of the Republic because the party's electoral support increased, surpassing 4.3% of votes at the national level, for the first time.[16][17] However, Crosetto resigned on 13 March 2019 to continue his business career,[1] and after two days his former seat was assigned to the first candidate on the list of non-elected at the 2018 general election, the businesswoman and FdI member Lucrezia Mantovani.In September 2014 Guido Crosetto left his political commitment and was appointed President of the Federation of Italian Companies for Aerospace, Defence and Security (AIAD) of Confindustria and in the same year he became Senior Advisor to Leonardo S.p.A.[26] Moreover he added that the NATO's military support to Volodymyr Zelenskyy's government prevented the break out of World War III, which would have been inevitable if "Russian tanks reached Kyiv".[34] After a few days, he expressed opposition to the use of Western-supplied weapons for attacks inside Russia and stressed the need to "leave open the possibility of negotiating an immediate truce and initiating peace talks in the coming months.
Minister of DefenceIncumbentGiorgia MeloniLorenzo GueriniBrothers of ItalyIgnazio La RussaChamber of DeputiesLucrezia MantovaniLombardyPiedmontMareneGiovanni CrosettogovernmentundersecretaryMinistry of DefenceUniversity of TurinChristian DemocracyGiovanni GoriaProvince of Cuneocentre-right coalitionForza Italiacentre-rightEuropean People's PartySilvio Berlusconi2001 Italian general election2006 electionThe People of FreedomItalian Ministry of Defensefourth governmentBerlusconi's resignationMario Montinational conservativeMonti governmentSenate of the Republic2013 general electionPorcellum2014 European Parliament election in Italy2014 Piedmontese regional electionMatteo SalviniLega NordGilberto Pichetto FratinDaniela Santanchèsmall and medium-sized enterprises2018 Italian general election2019 European Parliament election in ItalyEuropean Conservatives and ReformistsConfindustriaLeonardo S.p.A.joint ventureFincantierinaval engineeringcorvettesfrigatesaircraft carriersSergio Mattarellasnap election2022 Italian government crisisMario Draghivoter turnoutUkraineRussian invasionVolodymyr ZelenskyyWorld War IIIDmitry MedvedevYevgeny PrigozhinWagner GroupIl FogliochancellorOlaf ScholzRafah offensiveGaza StripWestern-supplied weaponsattacks inside RussiaUNIFILSouth LebanonNaqourawar crimeIsraeli Defense MinisterYoav GallantPiedmont 1European ParliamentNorth-West ItalyLombardy 3comuneclosed listPolitico EuropeReutersMeloni governmentAntonio TajaniTajaniPiantedosiNordioGiorgettiLollobrigidaPichetto FratinSalviniCalderoneValditaraBerniniSchillaciSantanchèCirianiZangrilloCalderoliMusumeciRoccellaLocatelliCasellatiSangiulianoDefence ministersGroup of SevenLecornuPistoriusNakataniHealeyHegsethDefense ministersNATO member statesDedonderZapryanovAnušićČernochováPoulsenPevkurHäkkänenDendias