Agazio Loiero
President of Calabria
In office 2 May 2005 – 12 April 2010
Preceded by	Giuseppe Chiaravalloti
Succeeded by	Giuseppe Scopelliti
Minister for Parliamentary Relations
In office 22 December 1999 – 25 April 2000
Prime Minister	Massimo D'Alema
Preceded by	Gian Guido Folloni
Succeeded by	Patrizia Toia
Minister for Regional Affairs
In office 25 April 2000 – 11 June 2001
Prime Minister	Giuliano Amato
Preceded by	Katia Bellillo
Succeeded by	Enrico La Loggia
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office 2 July 1987 – 14 April 1994
In office 30 May 2001 – 26 April 2005
Constituency	Catanzaro
Member of the Senate
In office 9 May 1996 – 30 May 2001
Constituency	Calabria
Personal details
Born	(1940-01-14) 14 January 1940 (age 84) Santa Severina, Italy
Political party	DC (till 1994) PPI (1994-1996) CCD (1996-1998) UDR (1998-1999) UDEUR (1999-2002) DL (2002-2007) PD (2007-2011) MpA (2011-2013)
Alma mater	University of Calabria
Occupation	Politician, editorial consultant

Agazio Loiero (born 14 January 1940) is an Italian politician, former President of Calabria and minister in the D'Alema II Cabinet and the Amato II Cabinet.

Biography

Graduated in Letters and Philosophy, Loiero has worked as a columnist for newspapers such as Il Messaggero, L'Unità and the Gazzetta del Sud.

Political career

Loiero joined the Christian Democracy with which he was elected city councilor in Catanzaro. From 1987 to 1994, Loiero was elected to the Chamber of Deputies with the DC; he tried to be re-elected in 1994 with the Pact for Italy but failed the election.^[1]

In 1996, Loiero joined Pier Ferdinando Casini's Christian Democratic Centre and is re-elected to the Senate. Two years later, Loiero left the Pole for Freedoms coalition and joined the Union of Democrats for Europe,^[2] being later appointed Minister for Parliamentary Relations in the D'Alema II Cabinet and Minister for Regional Affairs in the Amato II Cabinet.^[3]

In 2001, Loiero returns to the Chamber of Deputies, leaving his seat in Parliament when in the 2005 regional election Loiero is elected President of Calabria.^[4] Loiero fails to be re-elected governor in the 2010 regional election.^[5]

In 2007, Loiero joins the National Leadership of the Democratic Party, giving his support to Rosy Bindi during the 2007 primaries.^[6] Loiero left the party in 2011, after having been very critical to secretary Pier Luigi Bersani, and joined the Movement for the Autonomies,^[7] though he finally left the movement in 2013 when it made an electoral agreement with the centre-right coalition.^[8]

Judicial proceedings

Together with his predecessor Giuseppe Chiaravalloti, Loiero has been involved in the Why Not investigation, then led by judge Luigi de Magistris, created to shed light on alleged wrongdoing in the management of public funds for the development of Calabria.^[9] Loiero was charged for the crime of abuse of office but in 2013 he was absolved definitively by the Court of Cassation for not having committed the fact.^[10]