Pierre Carniti (25 September 1936 – 5 June 2018) was an
Italian
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politician and trade unionist.
Carniti was born in
Castelleone
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, in the
province of Cremona,
Lombardy. He was general secretary of
CISL, the major Catholic trade union federation, between 1979 and 1985. Unlike most other CISL leaders, who were aligned with
Christian Democracy, Carniti was a member of the
Italian Socialist Party
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(PSI).
Carniti was president of the Parliamentary Commission on Poverty from 1994 to 1997. He was a Member of the
European Parliament
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from 1989 to 1999, associated with the
Party of European Socialists
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. In 1993, with
Ermanno Gorrieri, he left the PSI to co-found the
socialist
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party
Social Christians
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(CS).
See also
*
Christian Left
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References
External links
*Files about his parliamentary activities (in Italian)
XIlegislature.
1936 births
2018 deaths
Politicians from the Province of Cremona
Italian socialists
Italian Christian socialists
Democratic Party of the Left MEPs
MEPs for Italy 1989–1994
MEPs for Italy 1994–1999
Catholic socialists
People from Castelleone
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