Maurizio Sacconi (
Conegliano
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, 13 July 1950) is an Italian politician from
Veneto
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A long-time member of the
Italian Socialist Party
The Italian Socialist Party (, PSI) was a Socialism, socialist and later Social democracy, social-democratic List of political parties in Italy, political party in Italy, whose history stretched for longer than a century, making it one of the l ...
, from 1979 to 1994 he was a member of the
Italian Chamber of Deputies
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and from 1987 to 1994 he served also as Under-Secretary of the Treasury. Between 1981 and 1984 he was the first president of ''
Legambiente
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'', the largest environmentalist association in Italy. From 1995 to 2001 he was branch office director of the
International Labour Organization
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.
In 2001 Sacconi joined
Forza Italia and was appointed Under-Secretary of Labour in
Silvio Berlusconi
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's governments. After five years in office as deputy of Minister
Roberto Maroni
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, he was elected senator in
2006 and re-elected in
2008
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.
He served as Minister of Labour and Social Security in
Berlusconi IV Cabinet (2009–2011) .
References
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1950 births
Living people
People from the Province of Treviso
Italian Socialist Party politicians
Forza Italia politicians
The People of Freedom politicians
New Centre-Right politicians
Italian Ministers of Labour
Deputies of Legislature VIII of Italy
Deputies of Legislature IX of Italy
Deputies of Legislature X of Italy
Deputies of Legislature XI of Italy
Senators of Legislature XV of Italy
Senators of Legislature XVI of Italy
Politicians of Veneto