Silvio Bissacco

Silvio Bissacco (born 4 June 1951) is a Trossian politician who has been a Class III member of the Chamber of Commons for Trosserhavn since 2012. After being expelled from the Liberal Union in 2017, he founded the People's Party, which he has led since.

Biography
After studying Journalism at the University of Tross, Bissacco worked at the newspaper La Łìbara. In 1985, he started his own newspaper, La Voce di Pòpoło, which managed to obtain a fair market share in a short period of time.

Bissacco was first elected to the Chamber of Commons as a Liberal in 2012. Shortly after his election, several media noted a number of his older social media posts which some believed to be demeaning of women. Bissacco apologised for the posts, stating he had learned from his mistakes. In January 2014, Bissacco made the headlines again after it was revealed that he had spent over half of his parliamentary expenses on blank paper, which he had purchased from Thisttedl Manufacturing AG, an office supplies manufacturer, of which his son-in-law Richard Blaiver was CEO. Bissacco stated that he needed the paper, and refused to apologise. However, after the Liberal Union leadership threatened to remove the whip and deselect him as a candidate, he repaid part of the expenses.

Later on in his parliamentary career, Bissacco rebelled against his party's position on a number of occasions. In September 2014, he opposed the Liberals' plan to construct more homes, including in Trosserhavn. In April 2015, he criticised the Liberal leadership for its position on Asqalani immigration, referring to the Asqalani workers in Trosserhavn as "lazy sods and drunken troublemakers". After facing criticism for these remarks, Bissacco apologised. Nevertheless, he later tabled a private member's bill aiming to curb Asqalani immigration. His party opposed the bill, and only two other members voted in its favour.

In February 2017, investigative journalists of La Łìbara uncovered that Bissacco had committed large-scale tax evasion in his business career. While he denied these allegations, the Liberal Union leadership suspended Bissacco from the parliamentary group, although he claims to have left the group on his own accord due to the party's restrictive attitude. He subsequently founded the People's Party (PP) with the intention of contesting the 2018 election. Bissacco was re-elected, along with three other PP candidates.