Teresa Bellanova
Teresa Bellanova | |
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| Member of the Senate of the Republic | |
| Assumed office 23 March 2018 | |
| Constituency | Emilia-Romagna |
| Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
| In office 28 April 2006 – 22 March 2018 | |
| Constituency | Apulia |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 17 August 1958 Ceglie Messapica, Italy |
| Political party | Democrats of the Left (before 2007) Democratic Party (2007–present) |
| Profession | |
Teresa Bellanova (born 17 August 1958) is an Italian politician and trade unionist, current member of the Italian Senate for the Democratic Party since 2018.[1] She was also a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies from 2006 to 2018.[2]
Biography
Teresa Bellanova was born near Brindisi, Apulia in 1958. At just twenty years old she started working as a trade unionist, serving as regional coordinator of Federbraccianti. She worked in the south-east of Bari and then moved to the province of Lecce, to fight against caporalato, gang master system in which people, usually migrants, are illegally recruited for agricultural labour with little or no pay and slavery-like conditions.[3]
In 1988 she was nominated Provincial General Secretary of the FLAI (Federation of Agro-industrial Workers) for Lecce. In 1996 she became General Secretary of the FILTEA (Italian Federation of Footwear Textile Clothing), a position who held until 2000, when she joined the FILTEA National Secretariat with the responsibility for Southern Italy policies, industrial policies, labor market and professional training.
In 2005 she was elected member of the National Council of Democrats of the Left and on April 22, 2006 she was elected for the first time in the Chamber of Deputies within the centre-left The Olive Tree of Romano Prodi.[4] In the following year, she was a founding member of the Democratic Party, and was thus re-elected in the Chamber of Deputies for the second time in the 2008 election. From 21 May 2008 she was a member of the Commission for Public and Private Work.[5]
Bellanova was re-elected again in the 2013 general election. On 28 February 2014 he was appointed Undersecretary of State to Labour Policies in the government of Matteo Renzi. On 29 January 2016 she was appointed Deputy Minister of Economic Development, a position she held both in the governments of Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni. In the 2018 general election she was elected in the Italian Senate for the first time, running in the multi-member constituency of Emilia-Romagna.[6]
References
- ^ Teresa Bellanova – Senato della Repubblica XVIII Legislatura
- ^ Teresa Bellanova – Camera dei Deputati XVII Legislatura
- ^ Labour exploitation and ‘caporalato’ in Sicilian countryside
- ^ Teresa Bellanova – Camera dei Deputati XV Legislatura
- ^ Teresa Bellanova – Camera dei Deputati XVI Legislatura
- ^ Salva la Bellanova, torna a Roma ma dalla via Emilia