Potito Salatto

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Potito Salatto (born January 22, 1942 in Bari , † June 13, 2016 in Rome ) was an Italian politician ( DC , PdL , FLI , PpI ). He was a member of the European Parliament from 2009 to 2014 .

Life

From 1973 to 1995 Salatto worked for the Ente nazionale di assistenza per gli agenti ei rappresentanti di commercio (ENASARCO), a social insurance company for commercial agents. From 1973 to 1975 he was also the national secretary of the Christian trade union confederation Confederazione Italiana Sindacati Lavoratori (CISL).

Salatto began his political career as a member of the Democrazia Cristiana . From 1976 to 1985 he was a member of the Rome City Council and from 1985 to 1995 he was a member of the Lazio Regional Council . From 1989 to 1990 he was Vice President of the regional government. Furthermore, from 1990 to 1993 he served as a department head for industry, craft, trade and vocational training and from 1992 to 1993 as budget department head of the regional government. From 1993 to 1994 he was again Vice President.

In 2000 Salatto became the project coordinator for the United Nations Development Program . First from 2000 to 2004 in Kosovo , and then from 2004 to 2005 in Albania . From 2001 to 2009 he was deputy chairman of the non-profit association Associazione 11 September , from 2007 to 2009 he was chairman of the umbrella organization Assoforum 2007 . In the 2008 mayoral election in Rome, he supported Gianni Alemanno .

As a member of the center-right umbrella party The People of Freedom (PdL), he was in the 2009 European election for the constituency of central Italy in the European Parliament elected. There he sat in the Christian Democratic EPP Group , was a member of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs (2009–11), then the Committee on Budgets (2011–14) and Deputy Chairman of the Delegation for relations with Iran (2012–14). At the end of 2010, Salatto switched from the PdL to the spin-off Futuro e Libertà per l'Italia (FLI), which he left in July 2011. In early 2014 he joined the new Popolari per l'Italia (PpI) party and was elected deputy party chairman. He was also deputy chairman of Popolari per l'Europa , the group of MEPs from PpI and its sister party UdC . He did not run for the 2014 European elections .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Angelo Scarano: Morto Potito Salatto. In: ilgiornale.it , June 14, 2016, accessed March 6, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b c biography Potito Salatto as MEP
  3. ↑ Claudio Cerasa: La presa di Roma. BUR rizzoli, Milan 2009, p. 89.
  4. ^ Entry on Potito Salatto in the European Parliament 's database of deputies
  5. ↑ Fli, altri addii: dopo Urso e Ronchi va via anche Salatto. In: Il Secolo XIX , July 9, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Salatto, Potito
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian politician (Il Popolo della Libertà), MEP
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Bari , Italy
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 2016
Place of death Rome