Eugenio Zoffili, MP

Member of the Lega-Salvini Premier Group

Head of the Italian Parliamentary Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe - OSCE

Group leader on the Chamber of Deputies' Defence Committee

Head of the Italy-Japan Bilateral Freindship Group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)

Member of the Chamber of Deputies’ Committee on Elections

Freelance journalist

Born in Erba (Como, Lombardia) on 25 October 1979.                                                     

Currently Deputy Regional Coordinator of Lega-Salvini Premier in Lombardy, Town Councillor and Lega Group Leader of the town of Erba, he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in March 2018 at the beginning of the 18^th Parliament and reconfirmed – in the autumn of 2022 – for the current Parliament.

A member of the Defence Committee, where he also serves as Leader of the Lega parliamentary group, since 9 May 2023 he has been the Head of the Italian Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe - OSCE, as well as the Head of the Italy-Japan Bilateral Friendship Group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union for the second consecutive term.

He is also a member of the Chamber of Deputies' Committee on Elections.

In the previous Parliament, he had served as Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for monitoring the implementation of the Schengen Agreement, overseeing Europol's activities, monitoring and supervising immigration, and as a member and Group Leader of the Lega for the Foreign and European Union Affairs Committee.

He is passionate about foreign policy, international relations, security, cooperation and defence, with a focus on crisis management, and has participated in several national and international missions.

A freelance journalist, from 2014 to 2018 he held the post of Head of the Secretariat of Matteo Salvini, the Lega Federal Secretary, after his previous experience as the spokesperson for the President of the Regional Council and as Chief Secretary to the Regional Councillor for Security, Civil Protection and Immigration of the Lombardy Regional Government.

He has been involved in politics with the Lega since from his youth, and first became a Party member in 1993.

Aged 19, he stood in the Ponte Lambro (Como) municipal elections and was elected town Councillor; later, in 2007, after being elected Councillor, he became the President of the Municipal Council of Erba.

As a leading member of the Lega's Youth Movement, from 2008 to 2013 he served, among other roles, as Regional Leader for Lombardy.

In those same years, he worked as a Civil Protection Volunteer in various environments, including emergencies such as the earthquake that struck L'Aquila (in Abruzzo) in 2009.

Mauro Del Barba was born in Morbegno (Sondrio) on 20th July 1970. He obtained a degree in IT sciences at the University of Milan. Since 1997 he has been working for the Banca Popolare di Sondrio, where he has become Project Manager with the General Directorate. In 2009 he was the founder and President of the Ventiventi Association, supporting productive investment in energy saving and sustainable development. In 1995 he began his political activity and in 1997 he joined the Italian Peoples Party, acting as Deputy Provincial Secretary (1998- 1999), Provincial Secretary (1999-2002) and National Councillor (2000-2002).

Since 2003 he has been an expert member of the Commission for innovation and technologies in municipalities. From 2004 to 2009, he was Budget Alderman of the Municipality of Morbegno. In 2013 he was elected to the Senate on the list of the Democratic Party and sat on the Budget Committee. In 2018 he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies; he is currently member of the Finance Committee. Since December 2018 he has been the President of ASSOBENEFIT (Associazione Nazionale per le Società Benefit).