He was minister of interior from 2001 to 2002 and later minister of productive activities in the third cabinet of Silvio Berlusconi.
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A long-time Christian Democrat, he was mayor of Imperia in the eighties, as his father and his brother had been.
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In April 2010 Italian newspapers wrote that Scajola, in July 2004, reportedly used €1,100,000 in slush funds to buy a flat in Rome near the Colosseum At least €900,000 of those funds where reportedly traced as coming from Diego Anemone, a real estate developer under accusation of public servants bribing.
Scajoliani refers to the faction around Claudio Scajola, a leading member of The People of Freedom (PdL), a political party in Italy.
Claudio Monteverdi | Claudio Roditi | Claudio Arrau | Claudio Reyna | Cláudio Taffarel | Claudio Scimone | Claudio Procesi | Claudio Baglioni | Claudio Lolli | Claudio Cecchetto | Claudio Magris | Claudio Naranjo | Sergio Claudio dos Santos | Claudio Marrero | Claudio Marchisio | Claudio Chiappucci | Claudio Bravo | Claudio Bisio | Claudio Vargas | Claudio Treves | Claudio Taffarel | Claudio Stampi | Claudio Scarchilli | Claudio Scajola | Claudio Saracini | Claudio Sanchez | Claudio R. M. Costa | Claudio Ranieri | Claudio Prieto | Claudio Osorio |
On 11 September, he met with the Italian deputy and member of the The People of Freedom (PdL), Claudio Scajola, the Mayor of Rome and Giovanni Battista Re, secretary of Holy See.