Editing Ilona Staller (section)

==Political life==
In 1979, Staller was presented as a female candidate to the [[Italian Parliament]] by the Lista del Sole, Italy's first [[Green party]]. In 1985, she switched to the [[Radical Party (Italy)|Radical Party]], campaigning on a libertarian platform against nuclear energy and [[NATO]] membership, as well as for human rights. She was elected to the Italian Parliament in 1987, with approximately 20,000 votes. While in office and before the outset of the [[Gulf War]], she offered to have sex with Iraqi leader [[Saddam Hussein]] in return for peace in the region.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/1992/02/28/pop-artist-says-marriage-to-ex-porn-queen-is-over/|url-status=live|title=Pop Artist Says Marriage To Ex-porn Queen Is Over|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170828232053/http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1992-02-28/news/9202280604_1_cicciolina-artist-jeff-koons-married |archive-date=28 August 2017|website=Orlando Sentinel|date=28 February 1992|access-date=31 March 2024 }}</ref> She was not re-elected at the end of her term in 1991.<ref>{{cite web |last=Ghosh |first=Palash |date=27 February 2013 |title=A Star Is Porn: Whatever Became Of Italy's Cicciolina? |url=http://www.ibtimes.com/star-porn-whatever-became-italys-cicciolina-1104912 |access-date=4 June 2015 |website=International Business Times}}</ref>

[[File:Ilona Staller, manifestazione antiproibizionista, Rome.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|Staller at a protest in Rome, 1989]]
In 1991, Staller was among the founders of another Italian political movement, called [[Love Party (Italy)|Love Party]], which was spearheaded by friend and fellow porn star [[Moana Pozzi]]. In January 2002, she began exploring the possibility of campaigning in [[Hungary]], her country of birth, to represent Budapest's industrial [[Kőbánya]] district in the [[Hungarian Parliament]]; however, she failed to collect enough petition signatures for a non-partisan candidacy. In the same year, she ran in the local elections in [[Monza]], Lombardy, promising to convert a prominent building into a gambling casino but was not elected. In 2004, she announced plans to run for [[mayor of Milan]] with a similar promise. She renewed her offer to have sex with Saddam Hussein in October 2002, when Iraq was resisting international pressure to allow inspections for [[weapons of mass destruction]],<ref name="IMOW 2008"/> and she made the same offer to [[Osama bin Laden]] in April 2006.<ref>{{cite web |last1=<!--Desk--> |date=April 2006 |title=Sex for peace |url=http://www.beirutbeltway.com/beirutbeltway/2006/04/sex_for_peace.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061026165834/http://www.beirutbeltway.com/beirutbeltway/2006/04/sex_for_peace.html |archive-date=26 October 2006 |access-date=31 March 2024 |website=From Beirut to the Beltway}}</ref>

In September 2011, it was revealed that Staller was eligible for and would be receiving a yearly pension of €39,000 from the Italian state as a result of her five years in the country's parliament.<ref>{{Cite web |date=20 September 2011 |title=Protest over Italian pornstar MP Cicciolina's pension |url=https://theweek.com/people-news/2069/protest-over-italian-pornstar-mp-cicciolina%E2%80%99s-pension |access-date=31 March 2024 |website=The Week}}{{dead link|date=April 2024}}</ref> Reacting to the controversy raised by the news, Staller, who started receiving the pension in November 2011, when she turned 60, stated: "I earned it and I'm proud of it."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hooper |first=John |date=19 September 2011 |title=Italy row over ex-porn star's pension rights |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/sep/19/italy-cicciolina-porn-star-pension-rights |access-date=31 March 2024 |work=The Guardian |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> In 2012, Staller founded the Democracy, Nature, Love party. Its objectives included the [[legalization of same-sex marriage]],<ref>{{Cite web |date=9 November 2012 |title=Cicciolina si ricandida: ecco Dna (foto) |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.it/politica/2012/11/09/news/cicciolina_si_ricandida_al_parlamento_con_il_suo_partito_d_n_a_democrazia_natura_amore_e_punta_sui_matrimoni_gay-5119536/ |access-date=31 March 2024 |website=HuffPost Italia |language=it}}</ref> the reopening of former brothels,<ref>{{Cite web |date=28 September 2012 |title=Cicciolina lancia il nuovo partito? Natura e amore? |url=https://www.lastampa.it/cronaca/2012/09/28/fotogalleria/cicciolina-lancia-il-nuovo-partito-natura-e-amore-1.36381738 |access-date=31 March 2024 |website=La Stampa |language=it}}</ref> a guaranteed [[minimum wage]] for young people, improvements to the judiciary,<ref>{{Cite web |date=8 November 2012 |title=Natura e amore Cicciolina lancia il nuovo partito |url=https://www.lastampa.it/cronaca/2012/11/08/fotogalleria/natura-e-amore-cicciolina-lancia-il-nuovo-partito-1.36358397 |access-date=31 March 2024 |website=La Stampa |language=it}}</ref> and the elimination of the privileges of the rich political caste.<ref>{{Cite web |date=8 May 2012 |title=Il ritorno di Cicciolina 'anti casta' |url=https://www.ilsecoloxix.it/italia/2012/05/08/news/il-ritorno-di-cicciolina-anti-casta-1.32610034 |access-date=31 March 2024 |website=Il Secolo XIX |language=it}}</ref> On a proposal by blogger Luca Bagatin, who said that Staller was "a friend I had always respected and was intrigued by the idea of relaunching the secular area with a 'radical' and 'far-left' program",<ref>{{Cite web |date=24 April 2013 |title=Ilona Staller a Roma i Parchi dell'Amore |url=https://www.romadailynews.it/politica/ilona-staller-a-roma-i-parchi-dellamore-0151463/ |access-date=31 March 2024 |website=RomaDailyNews |language=it}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Bagatin |first=Luca |date=12 October 2015 |title=Quando mi candidai alle Amministrative di Roma con la Staller e contro Marino e Alemanno |url=https://www.pensalibero.it/quando-mi-candidai-alle-amministrative-di-roma-con-la-staller-e-contro-marino-e-alemanno/ |access-date=31 March 2024 |website=Pensalibero.it |language=it}}</ref> Staller was the unsuccessful candidate, in the [[2013 Rome municipal election]] in Rome held on 26 and 27 May 2013,<ref>{{Cite web |date=10 April 2013 |title=Cicciolina ci riprova col Campidoglio (foto) |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.it/politica/2013/04/10/news/ilona_staller_candidata_al_campidoglio_cicciolina_ha_firmato_la_tessera_del_partito_liberale-6345596/ |access-date=31 March 2024 |website=HuffPost Italia |language=it}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=11 April 2013 |title=Cicciolina candidata alle elezioni di Roma: 'Programma libertario e antiproibizionista' |url=https://www.romatoday.it/politica/elezioni/comunali-roma-2013/cicciolina-candidata-elezioni-roma-pli.html |access-date=31 March 2024 |website=RomaToday |language=it}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=12 April 2013 |title=Riecco Cicciolina Ilona Staller si candida a Roma |url=https://www.lastampa.it/cronaca/2013/04/12/fotogalleria/riecco-cicciolina-ilona-staller-si-candida-a-roma-1.36103309 |access-date=31 March 2024 |website=La Stampa |language=it}}</ref> as part of the Republicans and Liberals list.<ref>{{Cite web |date=10 April 2013 |title=Cicciolina candidata alle elezioni: in corsa per il Campidoglio con i liberali |url=https://www.romatoday.it/politica/elezioni/comunali-roma-2013/cicciolina-candidata-elezioni-roma.html |access-date=31 March 2024 |website=RomaToday |language=it}}</ref>

In 2020, Staller relaunched her Democracy, Nature, Love party and said that she had appealed a new law that reduced her parliamentary pension from €3,100 to €1,000.<ref>{{Cite web |date=12 February 2020 |title=Ex-porn star Cicciolina founds new 'love' party |url=https://www.ansa.it/english/news/2020/02/12/ex-porn-star-cicciolina-founds-new-love-party_ed5b3242-067e-4876-b688-8645c01d66fb.html |access-date=31 March 2024 |website=Agenzia ANSA |language=it}}</ref>