Domenico Comino

Domenico Comino (born 27 September 1955) is an Italian politician, who served as the minister of European affairs and state minister in the mid-1990s.

Domenico Comino
Comino in 1994
Minister for the Coordination of European Union Policies
In office 10 May 1994 – 17 January 1995
Prime Minister	Silvio Berlusconi
Preceded by	Livio Paladin
Succeeded by	Enrico Letta
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office 23 April 1992 – 29 May 2001
Personal details
Born	(1955-09-27) 27 September 1955 (age 69) Morozzo, Italy
Political party	Northern League (1989-1999)
Alma mater	University of Turin
Occupation	Politician, agronomist

Biography

Comino was born in Morozzo on 27 September 1955.^[1] He is one of the former leaders of Lega Nord.^[2] He served as state minister for the EU relations in the first cabinet of Silvio Berlusconi in 1994.^[3] Comino was one of the five Lega members in the cabinet who resigned from office in December 1994 in order to vote against Berlusconi in the censure motion.^[4]

Comino served in the Italian parliament for three successive periods between 1992 and 1997.^[1] Until 1999 he was the Lega Nord's president of the Piedmont region.^[5] In 1999, he was expelled from Lega Nord and joined an electoral alliance with Forza Italia.^[6]