Anna Maria Bernini

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Luciano Bovicelli
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(m. 2003;died 2011)​
Anna Maria Bernini
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Minister of University and Research
Assumed office
22 October 2022
Alma mater University of Bologna
ProfessionPolitician, lawyer, university professor

Anna Maria Bernini (born 17 August 1965) is an Italian politician, lawyer and university professor.

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Biography

Bernini is a civil and administrative lawyer and associate professor of Compared Public Law at the University of Bologna, where she later taught also Institutions of Public Law, and Law of International and Internal Arbitration and of the alternative procedures. She completed her legal training by participating in several study abroad programs at the University of Michigan, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in Paris, the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), Queen Mary College, the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators of London, the Institut du Droit et des Pratiques des Affaires Internationales de la Chambre de Commerce Internationale and the American Arbitration Association (AAA).

Political career

In 2007, Bernini was one of the promoters of the FareFuturo association founded by Gianfranco Fini. She also joined Fini's National Alliance party. [1]

She was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in the 2008 Italian general election with The People of Freedom. In 2010 she was candidate in the Emilia-Romagna regional election, losing against Vasco Errani. On 27 July 2011 she was appointed Minister of European Affairs, following the resignation of Andrea Ronchi. [2]

In the 2013 Italian general election she was elected to the Senate of the Republic. She is later re-elected at the 2018 general election and proposed by the Northern League as a possible candidate for the role of President of the Senate, but she refused, choosing to endorse her party colleague Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati.

On 27 March 2018, Bernini is elected group leader of Forza Italia at the Senate.

Political positions

Dissenting from the majority of her party, Bernini is fully favourable to the recognition of same-sex unions in Italy and to the stepchild adoption.

Family

Anna Maria Bernini was the daughter of Giorgio Bernini (1928–2020), who was a lawyer for the United Nations and Forza Italia politician, minister of foreign trade in Berlusconi's first cabinet.

She was married to Luciano Bovicelli, a noted gynecologist, who died in 2011. [3]

Electoral history

ElectionHouse/OfficeConstituencyPartyVotesResult
2008 Chamber of Deputies Emilia-Romagna PdL – [lower-alpha 1] Yes check.svgElected
2010 President of Emilia-Romagna Emilia-Romagna PdL 844,915X mark.svgDefeated
2013 Senate of the Republic Emilia-Romagna PdL – [lower-alpha 1] Yes check.svgElected
2018 Senate of the Republic Emilia-Romagna FI – [lower-alpha 1] Yes check.svgElected
2022 Senate of the Republic Padua FI 272,010Yes check.svgElected
  1. 1 2 3 Elected in a closed list proportional representation system.

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References

  1. ↑ Silvia Bignami (23 March 2018). "Anna Maria Bernini, pomo della discordia tra Lega e Forza Italia". Repubblica.
  2. ↑ Via libera al rimpasto di governoPalma alla Giustizia, Bernini Miss Ue
  3. ↑ E’ morto il dottor Bovicelli, marito dell’ex ministro Bernini
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