Giorgio Benvenuto (born 8 December 1937) is an Italian

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and

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. He was general secretary of

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(UIL), one of the largest Italian trade union centers from 1976 to 1992.See
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He was general secretary of

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(PSI) succeeding

Bettino Craxi Benedetto "Bettino" Craxi ( , , ; 24 February 1934 – 19 January 2000) was an Italian politician, leader of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) from 1976 to 1993, and the 45th prime minister of Italy from 1983 to 1987. He was the first PSI membe ...

in 1993.

Biography

Benvenuto was born in

Gaeta Gaeta (; lat, Cāiēta; Southern Laziale: ''Gaieta'') is a city in the province of Latina, in Lazio, Southern Italy. Set on a promontory stretching towards the Gulf of Gaeta, it is from Rome and from Naples. The town has played a consp ...

, where his father served as officer of

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; his origins, however, are from

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by his father's side and from

Chieti Chieti (, ; , nap, label= Abruzzese, Chjïétë, ; gr, Θεάτη, Theátē; lat, Theate, ) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) in Central Italy, east by northeast of Rome. It is the capital of the province of Chieti in the Abruzzo region. ...

by his mother Corsi. Soon afterwards his father was transferred to

Pula Pula (; also known as Pola, it, Pola , hu, Pòla, Venetian language, Venetian; ''Pola''; Istriot language, Istriot: ''Puola'', Slovene language, Slovene: ''Pulj'') is the largest city in Istria County, Croatia, and the List of cities and town ...

. In 1943 the family went on holiday to their maternal grandparents in Chieti and never returned to

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where they lost their home and all property. After September 8, the father went underground in Chieti and, wanted by the Germans, was hidden first in a cavity of the grandparents' house and then in the crypt of the Cathedral of San Giustino. Finally he crossed the front to

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. After the liberation of Chieti, Giorgio Benvenuto and the family joined their father in

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where they lived from 1945 to 1947. He joined the

(UIL) on 1 October 1955 where he held operational positions in the confederation and metalworkers' union. He was secretary general of the Italian Union of Metalworkers (UILM) from 1969 to 1976 and founded the Metalworkers Federation (FLM) with Pierre Carniti and

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in 1972. In 1976, succeeding Raffaele Vanni, he was elected Secretary General of the UIL where he remained until 1992, when he was appointed Secretary General of the Ministry of Economy and Finance. He was vice president of the European Metalworkers Federation (1971–1976) and vice president of the European Trade Union Confederation (1978–1981; 1987–1990). He was a member of the

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(CNEL) from 1981 to 1991. On 14 February 1993 Benvenuto was elected Secretary of the

, succeeding

. He held office for 100 days, until May of the same year, trying, unsuccessfully, to , to dismiss the people investigated from political positions in the PSI at the time of

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. After leaving the Socialist Party, he was one of the founders of the Democratic Alliance together with

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and

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. On the occasion of the 1996 general election, he joined with the Democratic Alliance the project of the Democratic Union of

Antonio Maccanico Antonio Maccanico (4 August 1924 – 23 April 2013) was an Italian constitutional specialist and social liberal politician, who served in various capacities in the parliament and federal administrations of Italy. Early life and education Maccani ...

, member of The Olive Tree coalition, and was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in the

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constituency . In early 1998 he joined the

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, subsequently, he was President of the National Directorate of DS as coordinator of the Reformers Movement for Europe, which was one of the founding components of the DS. In 2001 he was re-elected MP in the same constituency as the previous election. He was also a senator from 2006 to 2008. In 2007 he participated in the constitutive act of the

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on the occasion of the States General of the Left.

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Benvenuto' personal file from Italian Chamber of Deputies
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UIL official page
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