Oscar Fulvio Giannino (born 1 September 1961) is an Italian journalist and politician. A member of the Liberal Democratic Alliance for Italy (Italian: Alleanza Liberaldemocratica per l'Italia, ALI) since 2013, he is the former president of the free-market-oriented Stop the Decline (Italian: Fermare il Declino, FiD) party.

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Oscar Giannino
President of Stop the Decline
In office 28 July 2012 – 20 February 2013
Preceded by	Office created
Succeeded by	Silvia Enrico
Personal details
Born	Oscar Fulvio Giannino (1961-09-01) 1 September 1961 (age 62) Turin, Italy
Political party	ALI (since 2013)
Other political affiliations	PRI (1987–1994) RL (2005–2009) FiD (2012–2013)
Profession	Journalist, politician

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Giannino was born in Turin, the capital city of the Italian region of Piedmont. He soon started his career as journalist. In 1984, he became a member of the national leadership of the Italian Republican Party (Italian: Partito Repubblicano Italiano, PRI). He was the national secretary (Italian: segretario nazionale) of the party's youth wing from 1984 to 1987, and was the party's spokesperson (Italian: portavoce) from 1987 to 1994. From 2005 to 2009, he was a member of the Liberal Reformers (Italian: Riformatori Liberali, RL). In March 2012, he was a speaker at the national congress of the Grand Orient of Italy in Rimini.^[1][2]

In August 2012, Giannino founded the Stop the Decline party, and in December he announced that he would run to become Prime Minister of Italy (Italian: presidente del Consiglio dei ministri) for the 2013 Italian general election. He stepped down from FiD's presidency (Italian: capo della forza politica) after it was discovered that he had fabricated his résumé by adding false academic claims, such as a law degree in Italy and a master's degree in corporate finance and public finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.^[3] The deception was discovered by the party co-founder and Giannino's colleague, Luigi Zingales, who was professor at the Booth School of Business and left the political association.^[4]