Alessandra Moretti | |
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Member of the European Parliament | |
Assumed office 2 July 2019 | |
Constituency | North-East Italy |
In office 1 July 2014 –15 January 2015 | |
Constituency | North-East Italy |
Member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies | |
In office 19 March 2013 –25 June 2014 | |
Constituency | VII (Veneto 1) |
Personal details | |
Born | 24 June 1973 51) Vicenza,Italy | (age
Political party | Democratic Party |
Alma mater | University of Urbino |
Profession | Politician,Lawyer |
Alessandra Moretti (born 24 June 1973 in Vicenza) is an Italian politician who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019.
Moretti graduated in law at the University of Urbino and has worked as a divorce lawyer since 2001. [1]
Since her young age,Moretti was interested in politics,following her father,who had been active in the Italian Communist Party. She first entered politics with the Democrats of the Left. [2] [3] After some failed electoral campaigns (notably including that of the 2007 provincial election of Vicenza,on a list in support of Giorgio Carollo of Veneto for the EPP), [4] in 2008 Moretti,who joined the Democratic Party (PD),was elected to the municipal council of Vicenza and was appointed Deputy Mayor with delegation for education and youth. [1]
In 2012 Moretti gained national prominence when she was appointed by Pier Luigi Bersani spokeswoman of his campaign for the centre-left primary election. In the event,Bersani won the nomination for Prime Minister,but lost the 2013 general election. Moretti was however elected to the Chamber of Deputies for the PD.
In the 2014 European Parliament election Moretti was elected to the European Parliament but resigned in February 2015 to contest local elections and was replaced by Damiano Zoffoli.
In the 2015 Venetian regional election Moretti ran for President of Veneto,but gained a mere 22.7% of the vote and was thus defeated by incumbent President Luca Zaia of Northern League,who secured 50.1% of the vote.
In the 2019 European elections,Moretti re-entered the European Parliament. She has since been serving on the Committee on the Environment,Public Health and Food Safety. She later also joined the Special Committee on Beating Cancer (2020) [5] and the Special Committee on the COVID-19 pandemic (2022). [6] [7] In addition to her committee assignments,she is part of the Parliament's delegation for relations with Japan. [8] She is also a member of the Spinelli Group [9] and the European Parliament Intergroup on Children’s Rights. [10]
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