Pino Romualdi

Giuseppe "Pino" Romualdi (24 July 1913 – 21 May 1988) was an Italian right-wing politician who served both the Republican Fascist Party (PFR) and the Italian Social Movement (MSI). He was the subject of frequent rumours that he was the biological son of Benito Mussolini, although no proof has been given. Romualdi himself, who was from the same village as Mussolini, encouraged the rumour.

Biography Before World War II Romualdi was born in Predappio, near Forlì, the same comune of Mussolini.

He took a laurea in political science, serving as secretary of the Gruppi universitari fascisti in Forlì from 1936 to 1938, and then worked as a journalist.

Post World War II Romualdi was one of the fascist contingent captured by Urbano Lazzaro's partisans at Dongo, Lombardy in April 1945. However he managed to escape capture and was sentenced to death in absentia. Captured in 1948 his sentence was reduced to four years imprisonment and he was released in 1951, returning to his role as deputy secretary of the MSI. He also edited the journals Lotta Politica, Il Popolo Italiano and Ardito at various times and as MSI deputy secretary oversaw the modernisation of the party's internal structure and played a leading role in drafting their nine-point programme in 1967. He was particularly prominent as a member of the European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Electoral history

ElectionHouseConstituencyPartyVotesResult 1953 Chamber of Deputies Rome–Viterbo–Latina–Frosinone MSI 13,287 Elected 1958 Chamber of Deputies Rome–Viterbo–Latina–Frosinone MSI 23,473 Elected 1963 Chamber of Deputies Rome–Viterbo–Latina–Frosinone MSI 33,339 Elected 1968 Chamber of Deputies Rome–Viterbo–Latina–Frosinone MSI 37,905 Elected 1972 Chamber of Deputies Rome–Viterbo–Latina–Frosinone MSI 53,416 Elected 1976 Chamber of Deputies Rome–Viterbo–Latina–Frosinone MSI 38,783 Elected 1979 Chamber of Deputies Bologna–Ferrara–Ravenna–Forlì MSI 6,022 Elected 1979 European Parliament Central Italy 133,119 Elected 1983 Senate of the Republic Lazio – Rome I MSI 8,874 Elected 1984 European Parliament Central Italy 119,905 Elected