Lorenzo Cesa

Lorenzo Cesa
Lorenzo Cesa
Member of the European Parliament
	In office; 1 July 2014 – 2 July 2019
	In office; 1 July 2004 – 27 April 2006
Constituency	Southern Italy
Secretary of the Union of the Centre
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 27 October 2005
Preceded by	Marco Follini
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
	In office; 28 April 2006 – 25 June 2014
Constituency	Rome
Personal details
Born	16 August 1951 (age 73); Arcinazzo Romano, Italy
Political party	Italian; Union of the Centre; EU; European People's Party
Other political; affiliations	Christian Democracy; (until 1994); Christian Democratic Centre; (1994–2002)
Alma mater	Luiss Guido Carli
Website	www.lorenzocesa.eu

Lorenzo Cesa (born 16 August 1951) is an Italian politician and the current Secretary of the Union of the Centre.

Biography

Cesa graduated in Political Science from the LUISS University in Rome. He was manager of important companies and banks, including ANAS.

He was elected Municipal councillor of Rome with the Christian Democracy. Subsequently he joined the Christian Democratic Centre and the Union of Christian and Centre Democrats.

In the 2004 European Parliament election Cesa was elected MEP with 103,000 preference votes.

On 27 October 2005 he was elected Secretary of the UDC, succeeding Marco Follini.

In the 2006 general election he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies, so he resigned as MEP. He was also re-elected MP in the 2008 and 2013 elections.

In the 2014 European Parliament election he was again elected MEP, among the ranks of the New Centre-Right – UDC. In the general election of 2018 he was a candidate for the Chamber of Deputies, in the uninominal college of Nola (with the support of the centre-right coalition) and in the relative proportional list (Us with Italy – UDC), but he was not elected, so kept the office as an MEP.

In the 2019 European election Cesa was candidate on the Forza Italia list, but he was not re-elected.^[1]

Political proposals

Lorenzo Cesa proposed a Parliamentary Immunity to manage sex temptations allowing the Italian Parliament members wives to get money from the Italian State to go in the city where their husbands work.^[2]^[3]^[4]

Legal problems

Lorenzo Cesa was condemned on 21 June 2001 to 3 years of imprisonment for bribery with the Anas company.^[5]

On November 2010 Italian Authorities sequestered 1 million euro private goods from Lorenzo Cesa.^[5]

References

^ Europee, i candidati promossi e quelli bocciati: i numeri dei signori delle preferenze
^ L'ultima frontiera dei privilegi: un'indennità contro le tentazioni – Corriere della Sera, 31 luglio 2007
^ Cesa accetta le dimissioni di Mele – Corriere della Sera, 30 luglio 2007
^ Bertinotti reputa immorale la proposta di Cesa – Corriere della Sera, 31 luglio 2007
^ ^a ^b "Cesa, il lato oscuro dell'Udc. Soldi e società: tutti i casini del segretario". Il Fatto Quotidiano. Retrieved 2018-08-21.

External links

Personal profile of Lorenzo Cesa in the European Parliament's database of members

[1] Europee, i candidati promossi e quelli bocciati: i numeri dei signori delle preferenze

[2] L'ultima frontiera dei privilegi: un'indennità contro le tentazioni – Corriere della Sera, 31 luglio 2007

[3] Cesa accetta le dimissioni di Mele – Corriere della Sera, 30 luglio 2007

[4] Bertinotti reputa immorale la proposta di Cesa – Corriere della Sera, 31 luglio 2007

[ilfattoquotidiano-5] "Cesa, il lato oscuro dell'Udc. Soldi e società: tutti i casini del segretario". Il Fatto Quotidiano. Retrieved 2018-08-21.

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