Joe Bossano
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The Honourable Joseph Bossano MP |
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| Minister for Enterprise, Training, Employment and Health and Safety | |
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Assumed office 8 December 2011 |
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| Prime Minister | Fabian Picardo |
| 4th Chief Minister of Gibraltar | |
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In office 25 March 1988 – 17 May 1996 |
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| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Preceded by | Adolfo Canepa |
| Succeeded by | Peter Caruana |
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10 June 1939 Gibraltar |
| Nationality | British (Gibraltarian) |
| Political party | GSLP |
| Spouse(s) | Rose Marie |
| Children | 4 |
| Alma mater | University of Birmingham London School of Economics |
Joseph John Bossano (born 10 June 1939) is a Gibraltarian politician, and the former leader of the Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party. He was Chief Minister of Gibraltar from 25 March 1988 to 17 May 1996. He served as the Leader of the Opposition in the Gibraltar House of Assembly from 1984 until 1988 and again from 1996 until April 2011, by when the House of Assembly had become the Gibraltar Parliament. On 20 April 2011, Bossano stood down as leader of the GSLP, to be replaced by Fabian Picardo.
Bossano was born in Gibraltar and has a degree in Economics from the London School of Economics, as well as a degree in Italian from the University of Birmingham. He became part of the trade union movement in the 1960s while working as a seaman in Britain, where he was a member of the British Labour Party.
He was asked by a group of Gibraltarian politicians to return to Gibraltar and was elected a member of the House of Assembly in 1972, as a candidate of the Integration with Britain Party (IWBP). In 1969 the IWBP leader, then the Chief Minister, Sir Robert Peliza, was the mover of the Preamble to the Constitution which safeguards Gibraltar from ever passing to Spain without the expressed wishes of the Gibraltarians. He also became the Branch Officer for the Transport and General Workers Union (responsible for the public sector in Gibraltar and was the main force behind the attainment of parity of wages with the UK for Gibraltarians).
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