Dario Stefano

Dario Stefano (born 2 August 1963) is an Italian politician. Graduated in Economy, Stefano is a member of the Apulian division of the General Confederation of Italian Industry and taught Economics and Industrial Accounting at the University of Salento.

Biography After the 2005 Apulian regional elections, Stefano was elected regional councillor with The Daisy, supporting the centre-left candidate Nichi Vendola, who is elected governor. In 2009, he was appointed by Vendola himself as Councilor for Agri-food Resources.

On 5 June 2013, Stefano was appointed president of the Junta for the Elections, Authorizations and Immunities of the Senate: the junta has been later appointed to deliberate about Silvio Berlusconi's senatorial decadence.

On 18 July 2014, Stefano was a candidate for the centre-left primaries to choose Vendola's successor as gubernatorial candidate, together with the former mayor of Bari Michele Emiliano and the former mayor of Molfetta Guglielmo Minervini, both from the Democratic Party. During the primaries, Stefano received support from Vendola himself, from actress Helen Mirren and director Taylor Hackford, owners of a house in Apulia. Stefano manages to reach the second place, being defeated by Emiliano, who was later elected governor after the 2015 regional elections.

In 2017, Stefano didn't join the new Italian Left party and, with the 2018 elections, was re-elected senator with the Democratic Party.