Riccardo Sarfatti
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Riccardo Sarfatti was an Italian architect, entrepreneur and politician.

Life

Sarfatti was married and had three children, He graduated in architecture from Politecnico di Milano in 1965, and was an assistant professor of Urban Planning, Ordinary of the same Polytechnic Institute and professor for the course of History of Architecture in Venice
Venice
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 and the Faculty of Architecture in Milan. In 1979 he founded Luceplan SpA (a company of 100 employees and turnover of € 25 million) of which he was CEO.

Sarfatti has pledged for years as the president of Confindustria
Confindustria
Confindustria is the Italian employers' federation, founded in 1910. It groups together more than 113,000 voluntary member companies, accounting for nearly 4,200,000 individuals. It aims to help Italy's economic growth, assisting, in doing so, its members...

 Assoluce and vice-president of FLA. He was president of CNAD (National Council of Associations for Design) and member of the Presidential Committee for Freedom and Justice.

He was involved in the association "Liberal Entrepreneurs", and was very critical of the president of Confindustria
Confindustria
Confindustria is the Italian employers' federation, founded in 1910. It groups together more than 113,000 voluntary member companies, accounting for nearly 4,200,000 individuals. It aims to help Italy's economic growth, assisting, in doing so, its members...

, Antonio D'Amato.

He died in a car accident on September 9, 2010.

Politics

In the regional elections of Lombardy
Lombardy
Lombardy is one of the 20 regions of Italy. The capital is Milan. One-sixth of Italy's population lives in Lombardy and about one fifth of Italy's GDP is produced in this region, making it the most populous and richest region in the country and one of the richest in the whole of Europe...

 of April 3, 2005, Sarfatti was The Union
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-Political Unions:* The Union states of the United States during the American Civil War* The partnership of the German political parties the Christian Democratic Union and the Christian Social Union* The European Union...

 candidate for President of the Region, and he was defeated by the outgoing President Roberto Formigoni
Roberto Formigoni
Roberto Formigoni is an Italian politician, and the current President of Lombardy Region, Italy.-Life and career:Graduated in Philosophy at the Catholic University of Milan, he studied political economy at the Sorbonne, in Paris....

, while improving the result achieved by his coalition compared to previous regional in 2000, passing from 31.5% to 43.6% of the votes.

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