Luigi Zanda | |
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Member of the Senate | |
In office 23 May 2003 –13 October 2022 | |
Constituency | Lazio |
Personal details | |
Born | Cagliari,Italy | 28 November 1942
Political party | PD (since 2007) DC (1970s–1994) PPI (1994–2002) DL (2002–2007) |
Luigi Zanda (born 28 November 1942) is an Italian politician,member of the Senate of the Republic and leader of the Democratic Party in the Senate. [1]
Zanda was born in Cagliari in 1942. After becoming a lawyer he started working for the Institute for Industrial Reconstruction (IRI). During 1970s Zanda joined the Christian Democracy (DC) and cooperated with the Ministry of Public Administration. [2] Then he became the spokesperson of the Christian democratic leader Francesco Cossiga.
In 2003 Zanda was elected at the Italian Senate for The Daisy,a centrist party,heir of the DC left-wing. In 2007 he was among the founding fathers of the centre-left Democratic Party. On 19 March 2013,after the February's general election,he was elected by acclamation PD leader in the Senate. [3]