Leonardo Domenici

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Leonardo Domenici (born July 12, 1955 in Florence ) is an Italian politician of the Partito Democratico (PD). He was Mayor of Florence from 1999 to 2009 and Member of the European Parliament from 2009 to 2014 .

Life and political career

Domenici graduated from the University of Florence in 1988 with a degree in moral philosophy . He began his political engagement with the Federation of Communist Youth of Italy (FGCI) and joined the Partito Comunista Italiano (PCI), for which he became a local council. The majority of the PCI turned away from communism after 1989 and renamed itself in 1991 to Partito Democratico della Sinistra (PDS; Democratic Left Party), to which Domenici also belonged in the period that followed. In the 1994 parliamentary elections , he was elected to represent the constituency of Bagno a Ripoli in the Italian Chamber of Deputies , of which he was a member until 1999.

In the local elections in 1999, he was elected mayor of his hometown of Florence with 51.65% in the first ballot as a candidate for the center-left alliance L'Ulivo . From 2000 to 2009 Domenici was also chairman of the Associazione Nazionale Comuni Italiani (ANCI; National Association of Italian Municipalities). In 2002, Florence hosted the European Social Forum under his leadership . In the same year the mayor took part in the rescue of Fiorentina , which had become insolvent and lost the league license. Domenici initiated a re-establishment and acted briefly as president of the club. In 2004 he was re-elected with 49.2% in the first ballot and 66% in the runoff election. He held the mayor's office until 2009. Domenici promoted the reintroduction of the Florence tram , which opened in 2010. From 2008 to 2009 he was Vice-President of the European Committee of the Regions (CoR).

In 2007 the left-wing democrats merged with other center-left parties to form the Partito Democratico, of which Domenici was a member. In the European elections in 2009 he was elected to the European Parliament as a representative of the constituency of Central Italy for the legislative period until 2014 . He belonged to the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists (S & D) to a member was in the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and delegate to the Parliamentary Cooperation Committee EU-Russia to the European elections in 2014 he took up for re-election, but failed.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the European Parliament
  2. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)


Member of the Chamber of Deputies (Italy)

personal data
SURNAME Domenici, Leonardo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian politician, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Florence