Formerly a prominent member of the
Italian Socialist Party and
Socialist League, he was a founder of the
New Italian Socialist Party in 2001. He has been elected MP at the
Chamber of Deputies of Italy for the riding of
Trapani in the
2001 general election in the
House of Freedoms centre-right coalition, serving until 2006. He left the NPSI in late January 2006 after the rejection, by a judicial court, of his claim of having been elected as new national Secretary. Thus he founded a new movement,
The Socialists, of which he was the leader for a period. The party was part of the centre-left coalition
The Union, and eventually merged into the refounded
Socialist Party in 2007. In 2006-2008 he served in the
Prodi government as undersecretary of Foreign Affairs, delegated to
United Nations relationships. Bobo Craxi was candidate among the ranks of PSI for the Regional Council of Lazio in 2010 and for the Senate in 2013, but on both occasions he was not elected. On 24 October 2015 he founded Socialist Area (), as internal faction of the Italian Socialist Party. On the occasion of the
2022 Italian general election he was a candidate for the centre-left coalition in the single-member constituency "Sicily 1-02", but he got only 15% of the votes and he was not elected. He considers himself an atheist. ==References==