Mara Carfagna

Maria Rosaria (Mara) Carfagna (born December 18, 1975 in Salerno) is an Italian politician and former showgirl and topless models. After obtaining a degree in law, Carfagna worked for several years on Italian television shows and as a model. He then entered politics and was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for Forza Italia party in 2006. From 2008-2011 he served as Minister for Equal Opportunities in the Berlusconi IV Cabinet. Carfagna has been called "the most beautiful minister in the world, and ranked number one on Maxim's" World Hottest Politicians ".

Background

Carfagna was born in Salerno, where he attended the Liceo Scientifico Giovanni da Procida In 2001 he graduated in law from the University of Salerno, with a thesis on the legal information and broadcasting system ..


Career as a showgirl and model

After studying dance and piano, he participated in the Miss Italy contest in 1997, finishing in sixth place. About the experience she later said: "That competition makes you as a woman, it matures you ... all the stress, that desire to win, it makes you understand who you are.


Then he started working in television for company Mediaset, controlled by the family of Silvio Berlusconi. [8] From 2000 to 2006 he participated as a showgirl in the television program La Domenica del villaggio ("Sunday in the Village") by Davide Mengacci. In 2006 he led the program Piazza grande ("Main Square"), together with Giancarlo Magalli. Carfagna is also part of my television program cervelloni, Vota la voce and Domenica In.


Mara Carfagna has been in the past posed nude on several occasions, for magazines such as Maxim. Reluctant to talk about her modeling past, he still suggested that he was certain reservations about the job. On one occasion he said: "I am a little shy and I found getting undressed in front of the camera not a pleasant experience." He stated that he strongly believes in family values, and claimed in an interview that he had refused to take part in a film directed by erotic filmmaker Tinto Brass.


Political career

Carfagna entered politics in 2004, and became responsible for movement of women in political party Forza Italia (now the People's Freedom) In the elections of 2006 he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for Forza Italia, and in the 2008 election. - Runs as a third candidate of the People of Freedom in the district "Campania 2" - he was re-elected. When he first entered parliament Berlusconi jokingly commented that Forza Italia primae Noctis practiced law; the right of a feudal lord to take the virginity of his female subjects. As a deputy he was secretary of the Constitutional Affairs Committee, and has been described as members of parliament, diligent hard work. On May 8, 2008 he was appointed Minister for Equal Opportunity, in the fourth cabinet of Silvio Berlusconi, the promise of a widely publicized internationally, with particular focus on his background.


Gay pride protest against Carfagna, Catania, 2008.


Carfagna has been vocal in certain issues, such as the level of crime in his hometown of Salerno, after he became the victim of theft on three different occasions. She describes herself as antifeminist, as he believes that "freedom" does not rely on independence, but the rules and discipline.She opposes gay marriage, saying that marriage rights should be tied to reproduction. Soon after the accession he refused to back gay pride march, on the grounds of discrimination that is no longer a problem for homosexuals in Italy because homophobia was just thinking offense, a statement was strongly criticized by gay rights groups.


On September 2008, Carfagna introduced the proposal for a new law making street prostitution a crime, with penalties for both clients and prostitutes. This bill is the first major initiative as a minister. He said that at present in Italy, "as in most Western countries", prostitution and exploitation of prostitutes by pimps were illegal but prostitution as it is not. He described the street prostitution as a "shameful phenomenon". Carfagna was criticized by representatives of prostitutes' and other charities to introduce the bill. However, some Catholic charities praised her for having the courage to "take prostitution as a serious social evil".


In 2009 he became the first political promoters of the law against stalking offense. It was finally approved on February 23, 2009, introduced a package of bills known as Decreto Maroni. In the same year he signed a campaign against homophobia in Italy, with television advertisements, pictures in magazines and on the city wall attachment. He also proposed a bill against homophobia, in which homophobia is considered as an aggravating circumstance in the bullying incident. The bill was subsequently rejected by the House.


In 2010 the political debate for the celebration of March 8 he states that women have the right to vote in Italy in 1960 (as they did in 1946) and that the laws governing intrahousehold relationships established back in 1970 (while it was in 1975)


Controversy

In January 2007, Carfagna is in the midst of a controversy that received international attention. On the night of the awards show Telegatto, Berlusconi said about Carfagna that "If I were not married I would marry her as soon as possible". That comment caused Berlusconi's wife, Veronica Lario, demanded an apology through a national newspaper, something which he also received. Carfagna herself has later described the comment as "gallant and harmless," and said that he did not quite understand the reaction Lario.
On July 5, 2008, the journal Argentina Clarin reported on the records of telephone wiretaps authorized for anti-corruption investigation. Julio Algañaraz reporter wrote that Carfagna and Silvio Berlusconi engaged in telephone conversations with explicit allusions to oral sex wiretap transcript has not been published, but the Italian newspaper La Repubblica interview with former deputy foreign minister in the Berlusconi. II Cabinet and executive socialist Margherita Boniver, who admitted the existence of multiple messages.