Cristiana Muscardini (born 6 November 1948 in

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) is an Italian

politician A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government. Politicians propose, support, reject and create laws that govern the land and by an extension of its people. Broadly speaking ...

and freelance writer and publicist. Graduated in philosophy, Cristiana Muscardini was executive of the ''National University Action Front'', the Italian Social Movement and National Alliance. She also was municipal councillor of

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from 1980 to 1990 and in 1991 municipal councillor of

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. In the

1983 Italian general election The 1983 Italian general election was held in Italy on 26 June 1983.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1048 The ''Pentaparty'' formula, the governative alliance between five centrist parties, caused un ...

she was elected to the Chamber of Deputies, while in the

1989 European Parliament election The 1989 European Parliament election was a European election held across the 12 European Community member states in June 1989. It was the third European election but the first time that Spain and Portugal voted at the same time as the other m ...

she was elected MEP for the first time, re-confirmed in the successive elections of

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1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shoot ...

, 2004 and 2009. From 2000 to 2004 she was Vice-Chairwoman of the Union for Europe of the Nations Group and from 2001 to 2009 General Secretary of the

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. In 2009 she was elected in the European Parliament with

The People of Freedom The People of Freedom ( it, Il Popolo della Libertà, PdL) was a centre-right political party in Italy. The PdL, launched by Silvio Berlusconi on 18 November 2007, was initially a federation of political parties, notably including Forza Italia a ...

and she joined the

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. In 2010 she joined the new party of Gianfranco Fini,

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, but in 2012 she left this party to found the

Conservatives and Social Reformers The Conservatives and Social Reformers ( it, Conservatori e Social Riformatori, abbr. CSR) was a national conservative political party in Italy. The CSR was formed in October 2012 by Cristiana Muscardini, who had been a long-time MEP with Natio ...

(CSR), joining the European Conservatives and Reformists Group in the EP.Nasce il Movimento Conservatori Social Riformatori
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2014 European Parliament election The 2014 European Parliament election was held in the European Union, from 22 to 25 May 2014. It was the 8th parliamentary election since the first direct elections in 1979, and the first in which the European political parties fielded candid ...

she was candidated with European Choice, but the list didn't exceed the threshold and she wasn't re-elected.

Decorations

* Commander of the Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus

External links

Personal site
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References

1948 births Living people People from Cannobio The People of Freedom MEPs National Alliance (Italy) MEPs Italian Social Movement MEPs The People of Freedom politicians Future and Freedom politicians MEPs for Italy 2009–2014 MEPs for Italy 2004–2009 MEPs for Italy 1999–2004 MEPs for Italy 1994–1999 MEPs for Italy 1989–1994 20th-century women MEPs for Italy 21st-century women MEPs for Italy European Conservatives and Reformists MEPs {{Italy-politician-ThePeopleofFreedom-stub