Franco Marini
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Senator Franco Marini |
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| President of the Italian Senate | |
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In office 29 April 2006 – 28 April 2008 |
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| President |
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi Giorgio Napolitano |
| Preceded by | Marcello Pera |
| Succeeded by | Renato Schifani |
| Italian Minister of Labour | |
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In office 12 April 1991 – 28 June 1992 |
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| Prime Minister | Giulio Andreotti |
| Preceded by | Rosa Russo Iervolino |
| Succeeded by | Nino Cristofori |
| Secretary of the Italian People's Party | |
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In office January 1997 – October 1999 |
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| Preceded by | Gerardo Bianco |
| Succeeded by | Pierluigi Castagnetti |
| Secretary-General of the CISL | |
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In office 6 February 1985 – 13 March 1991 |
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| Preceded by | Pierre Carniti |
| Succeeded by | Sergio D'Antoni |
| Member of the Italian Senate | |
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In office 28 April 2006 – 15 March 2013 |
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| Constituency | Abruzzo |
| Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
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In office 23 April 1992 – 27 April 2006 |
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| Constituency | Abruzzo |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
9 April 1933 San Pio delle Camere, Italy |
| Political party | Democratic Party |
| Profession |
Syndicalist Politician |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Franco Marini (born 9 April 1933) is an Italian politician and a prominent member of the centre-left Democratic Party. From 2006 to 2008 he was the president of the Italian Senate.
Marini was born in San Pio delle Camere, in the Province of L'Aquila (Abruzzo).
A law graduate and trade unionist, Marini joined the Christian Democracy party in 1950 and was elected leader of the Italian Confederation of Workers’ Trade Unions (CISL) trade union in 1985. He left CISL in 1991 in order to become the Minister of Labour in the government of Giulio Andreotti.
A candidate in the 1992 election for Christian Democracy, he was to emerge as the most voted candidate in the country for the leading Italian party at the time. In 1997 Marini was appointed leader of the Italian People's Party, heir of the disbanded Christian Democracy, but he left the position in 1999 because of the party's poor electoral performance in the 1999 European election. After the Italian People's Party became part of Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy, he became the organizational secretary for the newly founded party.
On 29 April 2006, after the centre-left Union victory in the general election, Franco Marini was elected as President of the Italian Senate after three votes; he defeated Giulio Andreotti, the candidate of the House of Freedoms and his former party fellow during the Christian Democracy times, by 165 votes to 156, and succeeded Marcello Pera.
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