Anna Maria Bernini
Anna Maria Bernini | |
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| File:Visit of Anna Maria Bernini, Minister of University and Research of Italy, to the European Commission (04) (cropped).jpg Bernini in 2024 | |
| Minister of University and Research | |
| Assumed office 22 October 2022 | |
| Prime Minister | Giorgia Meloni |
| Preceded by | Maria Cristina Messa |
| Member of the Senate | |
| Assumed office 14 March 2013 | |
| Constituency | Emilia-Romagna (2013-2022) Padua (since 2022) |
| Minister of European Affairs | |
| In office 27 July 2011 – 16 November 2011 | |
| Prime Minister | Silvio Berlusconi |
| Preceded by | Andrea Ronchi |
| Succeeded by | Enzo Moavero Milanesi |
| Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
| In office 29 April 2008 – 14 March 2013 | |
| Constituency | Emilia-Romagna |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 17 August 1965 Bologna, Italy |
| Party | FI (since 2013) |
| Other political affiliations | AN (2007–2009) PdL (2009–2013) |
| Spouse |
Luciano Bovicelli
(m. 2003; died 2011) |
| Parent | Giorgio Bernini (father) |
| Alma mater | University of Bologna |
| Profession | Politician, lawyer, university professor |
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Anna Maria Bernini (born 17 August 1965) is an Italian politician, lawyer, and university professor. She has been elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies and Senate of the Republic, and has served as Minister of European Affairs. She is currently Minister of University and Research.
Biography
[edit | edit source]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
[edit | edit source]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
[edit | edit source]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
[edit | edit source]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, 30 years her senior, a noted gynecologist, who died in 2011.[3]
Electoral history
[edit | edit source]| Election | House/Office | Constituency | Party | Votes | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Chamber of Deputies | Emilia-Romagna | PdL | –[a] | check Elected | |
| 2010 | President of Emilia-Romagna | Emilia-Romagna | PdL | 844,915 | ☒ Defeated | |
| 2013 | Senate of the Republic | Emilia-Romagna | PdL | –[a] | check Elected | |
| 2018 | Senate of the Republic | Emilia-Romagna | FI | –[a] | check Elected | |
| 2022 | Senate of the Republic | Padua | FI | 272,010 | check Elected | |
- ^ a b c Elected in a closed list proportional representation system.
References
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- ^ E’ morto il dottor Bovicelli, marito dell’ex ministro Bernini
External links
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- Politicians from Bologna
- National Alliance (Italy) politicians
- The People of Freedom politicians
- Forza Italia (2013) senators
- 1965 births
- Living people
- Women government ministers of Italy
- Senators of Legislature XVII of Italy
- Senators of Legislature XVIII of Italy
- 21st-century Italian women politicians
- Meloni Cabinet
- Women members of the Senate of the Republic (Italy)
- 21st-century Italian lawyers