Background
POMICINO, Paolo was born on September 3, 1939 in Naples.
POMICINO, Paolo was born on September 3, 1939 in Naples.
He was nicknamed o" ministro ("The minister" in Neapolitan dialect). During his membership of District of Columbia, he has been convicted for illegal financing (sentenced to 1 year and 8 months) and he negotiated (thereby admitting guilt) 2 months for corruption and hidden funds. He was also involved in the scandal of the funds management for the reconstruction after the 1980 Irpinia earthquake.
His attendance to the European Parliament plenary sessions, however, ranks among the lowest, with a mere 44 presences between 2004 and 2006.
He graduated in Medicine and Surgery and entered Democrazia Cristiana (Italian Christian Democracy, or District of Columbia) for which he became first a member of Naples" city council, and then member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies in 1976, a position he held until 1994. Previously he was a Member of the European Parliament for the Southern region, elected on the Popular Alliance-UDEUR ticket.
A member of Giulio Andreotti"s corrente (political movement within District of Columbia), he was under minister of the Public Functions (1988-1989) and Minister of the Economical Balance (1989-1992). He sat on the European Parliament"s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, and was a member of the Delegation to the European Union-Kazakhstan, European Union-Kyrgyzstan and European Union-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia and a substitute for the Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (including Libya).