Donatella Agostinelli (born 3 April 1974 in

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) is an Italian politician of the

Five Star Movement The Five Star Movement ( it, Movimento 5 Stelle , M5S) is a political party in Italy. Its leader and president is Giuseppe Conte, Prime Minister of Italy from 2018 until 2021. The M5S was founded on 4 October 2009 by Beppe Grillo, a comedian an ...

and member of the XVII Legislature of the Italian Republic serving on the Justice Commission.

Early life

Agostinelli was born on 3 April 1974 in

Province of Ancona The province of Ancona ( it, provincia di Ancona) is a province in the Marche region of central Italy. Its capital is the city of Ancona, and the province borders the Adriatic Sea. The city of Ancona is also the capital of Marche. To the north, t ...

in the

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region of Italy. She graduated with a law degree from the

University of Camerino The University of Camerino ( it, Università degli Studi di Camerino) is a university located in Camerino, Italy. It is the best university of Italy among those with fewer than 10,000 students, according to the Guida Censis Repubblica 2011 and 201 ...

Career

As a member of the

(M5S), Agostinelli won the

2013 Italian general election The 2013 Italian general election was held on 24 and 25 February 2013 to determine the 630 members of the Chamber of Deputies and the 315 elective members of the Senate of the Republic for the 17th Italian Parliament. The centre-left alliance ...

from Marche and became a member of the

Italian Chamber of Deputies The Chamber of Deputies ( it, Camera dei deputati) is the lower house of the bicameral Italian Parliament (the other being the Senate of the Republic). The two houses together form a perfect bicameral system, meaning they perform identical funct ...

. She serves on the Justice Commission of the Chamber and was a member of parliamentary committee set up to investigate the death of an armed personnel. Agostinelli is the vice-chair of Vallesina Health and Environment Committee. She protested against the conversion of a sugar plant to bio-diesel refinery and voiced her concern against the high expenses of regional governing bodies. She has also participated in a hearing on transport Commission held in the Chamber of Deputies. Following the

January 2017 Central Italy earthquakes A series of four major earthquakes struck Central Italy between Abruzzo, Lazio, the Marche and Umbria regions on 18 January 2017. Earthquakes A magnitude 5.3 earthquake struck 25 km northwest of L'Aquila on 18 January at 10:25 local time a ...

, she questioned the slow response shown by the bureaucracy in relief work.

Personal life

Agostinelli lives in the municipality of

Apiro Apiro is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Macerata in the Italian region Marche, located about southwest of Ancona and about northwest of Macerata Macerata () is a city and ''comune'' in central Italy, the county seat of the ...

References

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