Mara Carfagna
Italian politician, former showgirl, and model
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- Maria Rosaria " Mara " Carfagna (born 18 December 1975) is an Italian politician and former showgirl and model.
- She later entered politics and was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for Forza Italia party in 2006.
- In 2018 she was elected vice president of the Chamber of Deputies.
- Carfagna had been named "the most beautiful minister in the world", and was ranked number one on Maxim 's "World's Hottest Politicians".
- Early life Carfagna was born in Salerno, where she attended the Liceo scientifico Giovanni da Procida .
Maria Rosaria "Mara" Carfagna (born 18 December 1975) is an Italian politician and former showgirl and model. After obtaining a degree in law, Carfagna worked for several years on Italian television shows and as a model. She later entered politics and was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for Forza Italia party in 2006. From 2008 to 2011, she served as Minister for Equal Opportunity in Berlusconi IV Cabinet. In 2018 she was elected vice president of the Chamber of Deputies. In 2021, she became the Minister for the South and territorial cohesion in the cabinet presided by Mario Draghi.
Carfagna had been named "the most beautiful minister in the world", and was ranked number one on Maxim's "World's Hottest Politicians". She has been for a while the spokeswoman of the parliamentary group of Forza Italia at Chamber of Deputies.
Early life
Carfagna was born in Salerno, where she attended the Liceo scientifico Giovanni da Procida. In 2001 she graduated in law from the University of Salerno, with a thesis on information law and broadcasting systems.
Career as showgirl and model
After having studied dance and piano, she participated in the Miss Italy contest in 1997, finishing in sixth place. About the experience she later said: "That competition makes you as a woman, it matures you...all that stress, that desire to win, it makes you understand who you are."
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