Mauro Zani (born 22 November 1949) 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, a ...

. Mauro Zani was born in

Sala Bolognese Sala Bolognese ( Bolognese: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Bologna in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about northwest of Bologna. The municipality of Sala Bolognese is composed by the ''frazioni'' Padulle ...

(

province of Bologna The province of Bologna ( it, provincia di Bologna) was a province in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. Its provincial capital was the city of Bologna. The province of Bologna covered an area of and had a total population of 1,004,323 inhabitan ...

Emilia-Romagna egl, Emigliàn (man) egl, Emiglièna (woman) rgn, Rumagnòl (man) rgn, Rumagnòla (woman) it, Emiliano (man) it, Emiliana (woman) or it, Romagnolo (man) it, Romagnola (woman) , population_note = , population_blank1_title ...

). He has been Regional councilor in

, municipal and provincial councilor of

Bologna Bologna (, , ; egl, label= Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nat ...

, President of the

Province of Bologna The province of Bologna ( it, provincia di Bologna) was a province in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. Its provincial capital was the city of Bologna. The province of Bologna covered an area of and had a total population of 1,004,323 inhabitan ...

(1985–1987), Member of the Chamber of Deputies (1994–2004) and

Member of the European Parliament A Member of the European Parliament (MEP) is a person who has been elected to serve as a popular representative in the European Parliament. When the European Parliament (then known as the Common Assembly of the ECSC) first met in 1952, its ...

for the North-East constituency (2004–009).

Career

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technical Technical may refer to: * Technical (vehicle), an improvised fighting vehicle * Technical analysis, a discipline for forecasting the future direction of prices through the study of past market data * Technical drawing, showing how something is co ...

subjects * 1972-1975: Secretary of

Italian Communist Youth Federation The Italian Communist Youth Federation ( it, Federazione Giovanile Comunista Italiana, FGCI) was the youth wing of the Italian Communist Party (''Partito Comunista Italiano''; PCI), and the direct heir of the Federazione Giovanile Comunista d'Ita ...

(FGCI) of

* 1988-1991: Secretary of the Bologna Federation of the

Italian Communist Party The Italian Communist Party ( it, Partito Comunista Italiano, PCI) was a communist political party in Italy. The PCI was founded as ''Communist Party of Italy'' on 21 January 1921 in Livorno by seceding from the Italian Socialist Party (PSI). ...

and

Democratic Party of the Left The Democratic Party of the Left ( it, Partito Democratico della Sinistra, PDS) was a democratic socialist and social-democratic political party in Italy. Founded in February 1991 as the post-communist evolution of the Italian Communist Party, ...

(PDS) * 1991-1992: Regional Secretary of the PDS for

* member (1992-1994) and coordinator (1994-1997) of the national secretariat of the PDS * 1999: Secretary of the Bologna Federation of the DS * 2000-2002: Emilia-Romagna Regional Secretary of the DS * 1976-1980: Member of the Regional Council of Emilia-Romagna * 1990-1992: Member of the Bologna Provincial Council (1980-1990) and of Bologna

Municipal Council A municipal council is the legislative body of a municipality or local government area. Depending on the location and classification of the municipality it may be known as a city council, town council, town board, community council, rural counci ...

* 1985-1987: Vice-Chairman and then Chairman of the Council of Bologna Province * 1994-2004: Member of the

Chamber of Deputies of Italy 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 ...

* 1996-2001: Vice-Chairman of the DS-

Ulivo The Olive Tree ( it, L'Ulivo) was a denomination used for several successive centre-left political and electoral alliances of Italian political parties from 1995 to 2007. The historical leader and ideologue of these coalitions was Romano Prodi ...

parliamentary group * 2001-2004: Vice-Chairman of the permanent committee on

European Union The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe. The union has a total area of and an estimated total population of about 447million. The EU has often been des ...

policies

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* * 1949 births Living people People from the Province of Bologna Italian Communist Party politicians Democratic Party of the Left politicians Democrats of the Left politicians 20th-century Italian politicians MEPs for Italy 2004–2009 21st-century Italian politicians Democrats of the Left MEPs {{Italy-politician-ItalianCommunistParty-stub

Career

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