Giovanni Donzelli

Giovanni Donzelli (born 28 November 1975) is an Italian politician of Brothers of Italy serving as member of the Chamber of Deputies. He was first elected in the 2018 general election and was re-elected in 2022.

Career Donzelli was born in Florence in 1975. His parents were left-wing and his father was a member of the Italian Socialist Party. In his youth he was influenced by the massacres committed by the Mafia and the Mani pulite scandal, At the age of 19 in 1994, he joined the Italian Social Movement's National Action University Front while studying literature at the University of Florence, and later switched to the faculty of agriculture. In the 2004 local elections, Donzelli was elected city councillor of Florence for the National Alliance. He was re-elected as city councillor of Florence in 2009, representing The People of Freedom, and in the 2010 Tuscan regional election he was elected to the Regional Council of Tuscany.

In 2012, Donzelli was one of the founders of Brothers of Italy. and was re-elected to the regional council. He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in the 2018 general election, and was a member of the constitutional affairs committee, the EU affairs committee and the inquiry committee on Il Forteto. He was re-elected in the 2022 general election, and became secretary of the chamber, vice president of COPASIR, organizational manager of Brothers of Italy, leader of the party in Rome, and a speculated candidate for the post of Minister for Parliamentary Relations.