Rosy Bindi

Rosy Bindi (2011)

Maria Rosaria Bindi , called Rosy Bindi (born February 12, 1951 in Sinalunga , province of Siena ) is an Italian politician and one of the initiators of the Democratic Party , of which she was president from 2009 to 2013. She was also Minister of Health from 1996 to 2000, Minister for Family from 2006 to 2008 and Vice-President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies from 2008 to 2013 .

Political career

After studying political science at the private university LUISS in Rome, Rosy Bindi was the assistant to the renowned administrative lawyer Vittorio Bachelet , who was murdered on February 12, 1980 in her presence by the Red Brigades at the Roman University of La Sapienza . She then worked as a research assistant at the University of Siena until 1989 .

She was involved in the Italian youth association of Catholic Action , of which she was deputy chairman from 1984 to 1989. In 1989 she became a member of Democrazia Cristiana (DC) and ran successfully for the European Parliament , of which she was a member until 1994. She was a member of the Christian Democratic EPP parliamentary group (1992–94 member of the parliamentary group's executive committee) and initially deputy chairwoman of the development committee (1989–92), then chairwoman of the petitions committee (1992–94).

Portrait of Bindis in 1996

After the dissolution of the DC, she joined the Partito Popolare Italiano , as whose representative she was elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies in 1994. As a supporter of the center-left alliance L'Ulivo , formed under Romano Prodi , she became Minister of Health in Prodi 's first cabinet in 1996 and also held this position in the two subsequent governments of Massimo D'Alema .

In 2001 she joined the newly founded Christian Democrat Democrazia è Libertà - La Margherita , was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for the third time in a row for her constituency of Cortona ( Arezzo province ) and worked there on the Social Committee. In 2006 she won her Tuscan constituency again and served as Family Minister in Romano Prodi's second cabinet from May 2006 to May 2008 . Since then, her name has been associated with the unsuccessful draft law for the recognition of registered civil partnerships ( DiCo = Diritti e doveri delle persone stabilmente conviventi ), which was drawn up by her ministry and met with harsh criticism, especially from church circles.

Bindi was an early proponent of the idea of ​​a center-left rallying party. As this took shape, on May 23, 2007, she was appointed to the founding committee of the Democratic Party (PD). She also applied for the chairmanship of the newly formed party from left and Christian Democrats. Arturo Parisi and Ugo Perone were among the supporters of her candidacy . In the ballot of the Italian population carried out on October 14, 2007, she was clearly defeated by her competitor Walter Veltroni (75.8%) with 12.9% of the votes . Within the party, she acted as a spokeswoman for the current Democratici Davvero ("Real Democrats"), also called Bindiani after their leader . In the election of Veltroni's successor in October 2009, she supported Pier Luigi Bersani , who won the vote. In November 2009, she was elected to the representative office of President of the Partito Democratico at the party congress in Rome, which she held until April 2013.

On May 6, 2008, she was elected Vice President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies along with three other candidates . In October 2009, over 100,000 Italian women expressed their solidarity with Rosy Bindi in a collection of signatures after the left-wing Catholic was insulted by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on a well-known TV talk show. When Bindi attacked Berlusconi in the discussion round because of his government policy, he said to the outwardly rather unattractive opposition politician: “I see, Signora, you are still more beautiful than intelligent”, to which she replied “Sure, Presidente, I am one of them Women who are not at your disposal ”. In the legislative period from 2013 to 2018, Bindy was chair of the joint anti-mafia committee of both chambers of parliament. For the general election in 2018 it did not occur more and retired after 24 years hence (six legislative sessions) from the House of Representatives from.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kordula Doerfler: The uprising of women. 100,000 Italian women show their solidarity with an opposition politician who was insulted by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Berliner Zeitung, October 24, 2009, accessed on October 2, 2013 . 
2. ^ Immunity Act: Berlusconi insults the President, Constitutional Court and MPs. In: Zeit Online. October 8, 2009, accessed May 17, 2016 . 

Web links

• Personal website (Italian)
• Entry on Rosy Bindi in the European Parliament 's database of MEPs