predecessor successor birth_place imagesize nationality birth_date order term_start spouse image article_title term_end name
rocco buttiglione franco carraro sandro bondi walter veltroni rome , italy 200px italian 14 june 1954 minister 61st mayor of rome of culture and tourism and deputy prime minister 17 may 2006 5 december 1993 barbara palombelli francesco rutelli portrait.jpg francesco rutelli
 8 may 2008 8 january 2001 francesco rutelli
francesco rutelli

francesco rutelli , mp -lrb- born 14 june 1954 -rrb- is an italian politician and current president of alliance for italy .
he also chairs the `` centro per un futuro sostenibile '' -lrb- centre for a sustainable future -- a bipartisan think tank on climate change and environmental issues -rrb- .
he is co-president of the european democratic party , a centrist european political party , today counting approximately 20 meps .
he has been mayor of rome 1994 -- 2001 , and president of the centrist party democracy is freedom -- the daisy 2002 -- 2007 .
he was the minister of culture and tourism in the second cabinet of prime minister romano prodi 2006 -- 2008 .
in 2008 rutelli ran unsuccessfully for a new term as mayor of rome after the resignation of walter veltroni .
