Pier Ferdinando Casini

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Pier Ferdinando Casini (2013)

Pier Ferdinando Casini ( listen ? / I ; born December 3, 1955 in Bologna ) is an Italian politician. As a leading member of the Christian Democratic UDC , he was President of the Italian House of Representatives from 2001 to 2006 and President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union from 2005 to 2008 . Audio file / audio sample

Life

Casini holds a law degree from the University of Bologna . He was first elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies in 1983 for the Democrazia Cristiana (DC) . When the DC collapsed, Casini and Clemente Mastella founded the Centro Cristiano Democratico (CCD) in January 1994 , which worked closely with Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia party . Until 2001 Casini was segretario , d. H. operative party leader, of the CCD. From 1994 to 2001 he was a member of the European Parliament , until 1995 in the Forza Europa group , then in the EPP-ED group , of which he was a member from 2000 onwards.

Casini in 2001

After the election victory of Berlusconi's center-right alliance Casa delle Libertà , to which the CCD also belonged, Casini was elected President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies in May 2001 and held this office until the end of the legislative period in April 2006. In 2002, Casinis CCD merged with two other small Christian Democratic parties to form the Unione dei Democratici Cristiani e di Centro (UDC). In this he had no party office officially, but was at its leading candidate elections and therefore was regarded as de facto leader (leader) . From October 19, 2005 to October 15, 2008, Casini was President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union . From 2006 to 2015 he was President of Centrist Democrat International , the worldwide association of Christian Democratic parties.

Before the parliamentary elections in 2008, the UDC left the center-right alliance Casa delle Libertà under Casini's leadership and entered into its own center alliance ( Unione di Centro ), which, however, led to the split of the party members who wanted to continue the alliance with Berlusconi. At the end of 2010, Casini launched the Nuovo Polo per l'Italia with Gianfranco Fini and Francesco Rutelli as the “third pole” between the center-right and center-left blocks. After Berlusconi's resignation, Casini supported Mario Monti's interim government .

After eight legislative terms (30 years) in the Chamber of Deputies, Casini was elected to the Senate in the 2013 parliamentary election on the list of Con Monti per l'Italia . From 2013 to 2017 he was chairman of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee. On the occasion of the constitutional referendum in 2016 , he fell out with his party. While the UdC pleaded against the constitutional amendment, Casini spoke out in favor. Together with Gian Luca Galletti , he then founded the Christian democratic splinter party Centristi per l'Europa (CpE). From 2017 to 2018, Casini headed a bank investigation committee. The CpE ran for the 2018 parliamentary elections on the Civica Popolare list as part of Matteo Renzi's center-left alliance. Casini was re-elected to the Senate to represent the constituency of Bologna.

Casini has two daughters from his first marriage to Roberta Lubich. After the divorce, he became involved with the construction company daughter Azzurra Caltagirone, whom he married in October 2007 after living together for eight years and with whom he has two children.

Awards

Web links

Commons : Pier Ferdinando Casini  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Casini, Pier Ferdinando
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian politician (UDC), member of the Camera dei deputati, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd December 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Bologna , Italy