Lorenzo Cesa
Lorenzo Cesa (born August 16, 1951 in Arcinazzo Romano , Province of Rome ) is an Italian politician . He has been party secretary of the Unione dei Democratici Cristiani e di Centro (UDC) and Unione di Centro (UdC) since 2005 . From 2004 to 2006 and again from 2014 to 2019 he was a member of the European Parliament .
Life
Cesa studied political science at the Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali (LUISS) in Rome. His political he began with the Democrazia Cristiana , for which he sat on the municipal council of Rome. When the DC broke up in 1994, Cesa joined the Centro Cristiano Democratico (CCD), which was part of the center-right alliance of Silvio Berlusconi . In 2002 the CCD merged with another DC successor party, the CDU , to form the Unione dei Democratici Cristiani e di Centro (UDC).
In the 2004 European elections , Cesa entered the European Parliament . There he was Vice-Chairman of the Christian Democratic EPP-ED Group , member of the Committee on Budgetary Control , the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and a delegate to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly . In 2005, Cesa was elected Secretary (Segretario) of the UDC - in contrast to the more representative Presidente, this is the person who is in charge of the party's daily operational political leadership.
After the Italian parliamentary elections in 2006 , he resigned his EP mandate to become a member of the Camera dei deputati . In 2008 and 2013 he was re-elected. In addition, he was Italian delegate in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Western European Union from 2006 to 2011 and in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe from 2006–2011 and 2013–14 .
In the 2014 European elections , Cesa won another seat in the European Parliament . There he was a representative of the EPP Group in the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defense Policy , in the Delegation for Parliamentary Cooperation EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia, and in the delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly . For the 2019 European elections , Cesa ran for second place in the Forza Italia list in southern Italy, according to an agreement between its UdC and Forza Italia. However, he did not receive enough preferential votes to be re-elected.
Web links
- Entry on Lorenzo Cesa in the Members' database of the European Parliament
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cesa, Lorenzo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian politician, MEP |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 16, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Arcinazzo Romano , Italy |