Sergio Cofferati

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Sergio Cofferati (2008)

Sergio Gaetano Cofferati (born January 30, 1948 in Sesto ed Uniti , Province of Cremona ) is an Italian trade unionist and politician ( DS , PD , SI ). He was mayor of Bologna from 2004 to 2009 and a member of the European Parliament from 2009 to 2019 .

Life

Cofferati is a qualified industrial technician for electrical engineering. From 1969 to 1974 he worked as an employee in the work organization office of the tire manufacturer Pirelli in Bicocca (Milan). From 1988 he was general secretary of FILCEA, the chemical workers division of the communist-oriented trade union Confederazione Generale Italiana del Lavoro (CGIL). In 1990 he was elected to the national secretariat of the CGIL, from 1994 to 2002 he was its general secretary. On March 23, 2002, he spoke to an estimated 700,000 people at a protest meeting against the amendment to the Dismissal Protection Act in the Circus Maximus in Rome.

As a member of the Democratici di Sinistra (DS; Left Democrats), Cofferati ran for the mayor of Bologna in the 2004 local elections - supported by the center-left alliance L'Ulivo . In the first ballot he already won with 55.9% against incumbent Giorgio Guazzaloca from the center-right camp. In 2007, Cofferati participated in the merger of DS with other center-left parties to form the Partito Democratico and was a member of their founding committee. After five years as mayor, he did not stand for re-election.

Instead, he ran in the 2009 European elections and was elected to the European Parliament as a representative of the constituency of Northwest Italy . There he joined the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Social Democrats (S&D), was a member of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (2009–12) and the Special Committee on the Financial, Economic and Social Crisis (2009–11) and the Committee for Internal Market and Consumer Protection (2012-14), of which he was Deputy Chairman from 2013-14. He was also the delegate for relations with Iran (2009-14), in the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (2009-13) and for relations with Canada. After his re-election in 2014 , he was again deputy chairman until 2015, then a simple member of the Internal Market Committee and delegate for relations with Palestine, and from 2016-17 a member of the committee of inquiry to examine alleged violations of Union law and maladministration in connection with the same with money laundering, tax avoidance and tax evasion.

In the run-up to the regional elections in Liguria in 2015, Cofferati applied for the top candidate of the PD, but was defeated in the primary by his party rival Raffaella Paita . Cofferati alleged irregularities in this area code. He resigned from the PD in protest. Instead, he backed the candidacy of Luca Pastorino from Possibile , a left-wing split from the PD, which came in at 9.4%. In 2018, Cofferati joined the Sinistra Italiana (SI; Italian Left), to which several groups to the left of the PD have come together. For the left list Liberi e Uguali , to which the SI also belongs, Cofferati ran for the Italian parliamentary election in 2018 in the constituency of Genoa 3, but received only 5.4% of the vote.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andrea di Nicola: L'invasione colorata di Roma - "May così tanti in piazza" In: La Repubblica , March 23, 2002.
  2. ^ Entry on Sergio Cofferati in the European Parliament 's database of deputies
personal data
SURNAME Cofferati, Sergio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cofferati, Sergio Gaetano (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian politician (Partito Democratico), MEP
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Sesto ed Uniti