Alfredo Biondi
Alfredo Biondi (29 June 1928 – 24 June 2020) was an Italian politician and lawyer. In 1994 he served as Minister of Justice of the Italian Republic during the first cabinet chaired by Silvio Berlusconi. Biography. Born in Pisa, Biondi was Secretary of the Italian Liberal Party from 1985 to 1986, and later president of the same party. He was member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies from June 1968 to May 1972, and then from June 1983 to April 2006. He was Senator from April 2006 to April 2008. In 1993, together with the last PLI leader, Raffaele  Costa, he founded the Union of Centre, a small faction of the new Forza Italia party. He served as Justice Minister in Silvio Berlusconi's first government in 1994 (he served also as Ecology Minister in the 1980s). Biondi was appointed President of Forza Italia's National Council in 2004. He left the Forza Italia in 2009 and ultimately rejoined the liberal Party of His political beginnings.