Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati

Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati (2018)

Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati (* 12. August 1946 in Rovigo , Veneto as Maria Elisabetta Alberti ) is an Italian politician of Forza Italia . She has been President of the Italian Senate since 2018 .

Life and political career

Maria Elisabetta Alberti grew up in a noble family from Veneto. She studied law in Ferrara and canon law at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome . She is married to the lawyer Giambattista Casellati, with whom she runs a law firm in Padua and whose last name she uses as a double name . The couple have two grown children and live in Padua. Her daughter is the journalist Ludovica Casellati, her son the orchestra conductor and former lawyer Alvise Casellati (* 1973).

Alberti Casellati was one of the founders of Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia party , for which she was first elected to the Senate in 1994. During the 1994–96 legislative period, she was chair of the Committee on Hygiene and Health. In the 1996 general election , she lost her Senate seat, but moved back in 2001 . Since then she has been represented in the upper house of the Italian parliament without interruption until 2014. From 2001–02 she was chairwoman of the parliamentary committee (both chambers) for regional issues, from 2001 to 2005 she was vice-president of the Senate and from 2002 to 2005 she was chairwoman of the committee for equality in the senate. From December 2004 to May 2006, she was State Secretary in the Ministry of Health in the Berlusconi II and III cabinets .

In the 2006-08 legislative period, Alberti Casellati was deputy group leader of Forza Italia in the Senate. In Berlusconi's fourth cabinet , she was State Secretary in the Ministry of Justice from May 2008 to November 2011. From 2009 she belonged to the center-right collecting party Il Popolo della Libertà (PdL), in which Forza Italia had been absorbed in the meantime, but which returned to the previous party name in 2013. In September 2014 Alberti Casellati was elected to the Consiglio Superiore della Magistratura (Supreme Judicial Council) and gave up her seat in the Senate.

In the 2018 parliamentary elections , she ran again successfully for a seat in the Senate in the constituency of Veneto 1 (Venice). Since March 24, 2018, she has been the 22nd President of the Italian Senate and the first woman in this office.

Web links

Maria Elisabetta ALBERTI CASELLATI - Profile on the website of the Italian Senate
Website of the President of the Senate

Individual evidence

^ Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati. Retrieved September 13, 2019 (Italian).
↑ Center-right and five stars agree on speakers of parliament , Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung , from March 26, 2018 (PDF). Retrieved April 23, 2018.
↑ ^a ^b ^c Scheda di attività: Maria Elisabetta ALBERTI CASELLATI , Senato della Repubblica.
↑ Five-star movement and center-right alliance: Italian election winners agree on parliamentary presidents , on spiegel.de, March 24, 2018. Accessed April 23, 2018.

personal data
SURNAME	Alberti Casellati, Maria Elisabetta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Alberti, Maria Elisabetta (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian lawyer and politician with Forza Italia
DATE OF BIRTH	August 12, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rovigo , Veneto

[1] Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati. Retrieved September 13, 2019 (Italian).

[2] Center-right and five stars agree on speakers of parliament , Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung , from March 26, 2018 (PDF). Retrieved April 23, 2018.

[Senato-3] Scheda di attività: Maria Elisabetta ALBERTI CASELLATI , Senato della Repubblica.

[4] Five-star movement and center-right alliance: Italian election winners agree on parliamentary presidents , on spiegel.de, March 24, 2018. Accessed April 23, 2018.