Robert Maroni, ex minister and rightfully representative of the most genuine soul of the League, died at the age of 67 after an illness that forced him to withdraw from political life in 2021. Maroni shared the beginnings of the Northern League with Umberto Bossi: three times minister , deputy premier, governor of the Lombardy Region, was also the federal secretary of the League.
Married, two children, law graduate, lawyer, he had also been head of the legal department of the Italian office of a US multinational. Great AC Milan fan, he also had a passion for music and played the saxophone in a band. His glasses with colorful and slightly extravagant frames are famous. Considered Bossi's right-hand man and number two in the League, Maroni has been part of the Lombard League since its foundation.
Roberto Maroni has died: it all began with the meeting with Bossi
Maroni recounted that the meeting in 1979 with Umberto Bossy it changed his life: if "he is the father of the League, I am its mother", he explained. Maroni is among the 80 Lega supporters who represented the League for the first time in parliament in 1992, who later became Interior Minister and Deputy Prime Minister in 1994, Minister of Labor in 2001 and again Minister of the Interior in 2008 again with Silvio Berlusconi as Prime Minister, to finally close his career in the institutions as President of the Lombardy Region from 2013 to 2018. Federalist but not secessionist , Maroni represented a more balanced and concrete-oriented government League. He has not always had easy relations with Umberto Bossi as well as with Matteo Salvini with whom he did not share the party's shift to more populist positions and unanchored to the original basin, that of the northern regions. In a recent interview in the Corriere della Sera he defined himself as a dreamer, as a Northern League member, understood as "the bearer of a realizable dream, unlike utopia".
“Tonight at 4 o'clock our dear Bobo left us. To those who asked him how he was, even in his last moments, he always replied: 'Fine'. You were so Bobo, an incurable optimist. You have been a great husband, father and friend." As the family communicated on the Facebook page of
Roberto Maroni the death of the former minister which took place in the house of Lozza, a town in the Varese area. Numerous bipartisan certificates of esteem are arriving in these hours.
