Anna Finocchiaro – Wikipedia

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Italian politician (born 1955)

Anna Finocchiaro Fidelbo (Italian pronunciation: [ˈanna finokˈkjaːro]; born 31 March 1955) is an Italian politician. She was the Democratic Party’s leader in the Senate from 2007 to 2013.[1] She served as Minister for Equal Opportunities in the cabinet of Romano Prodi from 1996 to 1998.[1]

Biography[edit]

Born in Modica, Finocchiaro graduated in law in 1978, and she worked for the Banca d’Italia’s branch in Savona before becoming a magistrate in Leonforte in 1982.[1] She served as a magistrate until 1985, when she was appointed as a deputy public prosecutor at the court of Catania.[1] She was first elected to the Chamber of Deputies as a member of the Italian Communist Party in 1987; she was elected to Catania’s council in 1988.[1] Finocchiaro was later a member of both the Democratic Party of the Left and the Democrats of the Left, and she was a founding member of the Democratic Party (PD) in 2007.[1]

Finocchiaro served as Minister for Equal Opportunities in the first cabinet of Romano Prodi from 1996 to 1998.[1] She stood for the Senate for the first time in the 2006 Italian general election; she was named as the group chair of the Olive Tree coalition following her election.[1] Finocchiaro was named the leader of the PD in the Senate following the party’s creation in 2007 and was reconfirmed as leader following the 2008 Italian general election.[1] In 2008 she also stood unsuccessfully to be President of Sicily.[1]

After being under investigation by the Italian courts for abuse of office aggravated fraud, her husband was completely acquitted on all counts in 2018.[2][3]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j

    “Anna Finocchiaro” (in Italian). senatoripd.it. Archived from the original on 28 September 2009. Retrieved 19 August 2010.

  2. ^ https://palermo.repubblica.it/cronaca/2018/05/11/news/catania_appalto_sospetto_al_pta_di_giarre_assolto_il_marito_dell_ex_senatrice_finocchiaro-196110714/
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  3. ^ Catania, indagato per abuso d’ufficio Fidelbo Melchiorre, marito di Anna Finocchiaro

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