Sergio Berlato

Sergio Antonio Berlato (born July 27, 1959 in Marano Vicentino , Vicenza province ) is an Italian right-wing conservative politician. He was from 1999 to 2014 and has been a member of the European Parliament again since 2019 , first as a member of the Alleanza Nazionale , then the Popolo della Libertà party and finally the Fratelli d'Italia .

Berlato was elected to the Regional Council of Veneto in 1990 for the Caccia Pesca Ambiente ("Hunting, Fishing, Environment") movement . From 1994 to 1995 he was a member of the regional government under Aldo Bottin as an alderman for domain and property goods as well as the development of wildlife resources. In 1995 he was confirmed as a member of the regional council, this time as a representative of the right-wing conservative Alleanza Nazionale. He then belonged to the regional government under Giancarlo Galan as an alderman for the primary sector (agriculture and fisheries) until 1999 .

In the European elections in 1999 he was elected to the European Parliament as a representative of the Alleanza Nazionale . From 1999 to 2009 he was a member of the Union for Europe of the Nations (UEN) group. From 2002 to 2004 he was Deputy Chairman of the Delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand . In 2004 he was re-elected. From 2007 to 2009 he was vice chairman of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development. In 2009 he was confirmed in office for another legislative period, this time as a representative of the center-right rallying party Popolo della Libertà (PdL), in which the AN had since been absorbed. He then belonged to the Group of the European People's Party (EPP). After the PdL split in 2013, he joined the Forza Italia party .

Before the 2014 European elections , he switched to the national-conservative party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which, however, failed because of the 4 percent hurdle, which is why Berlato left the European Parliament. In 2015 he was re-elected to the Regional Council of Veneto. In the 2019 European elections , he again applied for a seat in the European Parliament, this time the FdI was successful and Berlati received the second most preferential votes within the party after the party leader Giorgia Meloni .

Web links

• Entry on Sergio Berlato in the Members' database of the European Parliament