Caterina Chinnici (born 5 November 1954) is an Italian

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and

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who has been serving as a

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since 2014. In 2022, she was the Centre-left Alliance candidate to the Sicilian regional election, placing in third.

Early life and career

Born in

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, Chinnici is the daughter of the judge

Rocco Chinnici Rocco Chinnici (, ; 19 January 1925 – 29 July 1983) was a noted Italian anti-Mafia magistrate killed by the Sicilian Mafia. Life Born at Misilmeri, Chinnici graduated in law at the University of Palermo in 1947 and started working as a magist ...

, killed by the

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in 1983. Graduated in

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at 21 years old, she was Prosecutor General of the Court of Appeal of

Caltanissetta Caltanissetta (; scn, Nissa or ) is a ''comune'' in the central interior of Sicily, Italy, and the capital of the Province of Caltanissetta. Its inhabitants are called ''Nisseni''. In 2017, the city had a population of 62,797. It is the 14th l ...

, and Public Prosecutor at the

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in Caltanissetta and later in Palermo. In June 2009, the president of Sicily

Raffaele Lombardo Raffaele Lombardo ; (born 29 October 1950, in Catania) is an Italian politician who was President of Sicily and former Member of the European Parliament for Islands with the Movement for the Autonomies and has sat on the European Parliament's Com ...

appointed her regional councillor for family and local governments, and then regional councillor for the civil service until July 2012.

Member of the European Parliament

In the

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, Chinnici became a

(MEP) with the

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. She has since been a member of the

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. In addition, she has been serving as vice-chair of the

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since 2019. She was a member of the Special Committee on Terrorism between 2017 and 2018. In addition to her committee assignments, Chinnici serves as co-chairwoman of the European Parliament Intergroup on Children's Rights. She is also a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Fighting against Poverty, the European Parliament Intergroup on Integrity (Transparency, Anti-Corruption and Organized Crime) and the European Parliament Intergroup on Cancer.

Other activities

In 2014, Chinnici released the autobiographical book ''È così lieve il tuo bacio sulla fronte''.

References

External links

European Parliament - Alessia Mosca
1954 births Living people Politicians from Palermo Democratic Party (Italy) MEPs MEPs for Italy 2014–2019 MEPs for Italy 2019–2024 21st-century women MEPs for Italy Jurists from Palermo {{Italy-politician-DemocraticPartyItaly-stub