Giovanni Pellegrino (born 5 January 1939 in

Lecce Lecce ( ); el, label= Griko, Luppìu, script=Latn; la, Lupiae; grc, Λουπίαι, translit=Loupíai), group=pron is a historic city of 95,766 inhabitants (2015) in southern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Lecce, the provi ...

) is an Italian politician. Born in

and a lawyer by profession, he was a

Senator of the Republic A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the e ...

from 1990 with 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 the

Democrats of the Left The Democrats of the Left ( it, Democratici di Sinistra, DS) was a social-democratic political party in Italy. The DS, successor of the Democratic Party of the Left (PDS) and the Italian Communist Party, was formed in 1998 upon the merger of th ...

to 2001. He also presided from last 1994 to 1996 and from 27 September 1996 to 29 May 2001 over the Parliamentary Commission on Terrorism concerning the " Years of Lead", created by a 1988 law to investigate about terrorism in Italy till 2001. At end of the commission experience he wrote a book with the writer Giovanni Fasanella, describing a long years "low intensity" civil war in Italy, from 1945 till today.''Fasanella Giovanni, Pellegrino Giovanni'', La guerra civile, Editore : BUR Biblioteca Univ. Rizzoli, 2005. . He was also part of the Elections Council and Parliamentary Immunity (''Giunta elezioni e immunità parlamentari''), as well as a member of the Commission on Institutional Reforms. Pellegrino was the president of the

Province of Lecce The Province of Lecce ( it, Provincia di Lecce; Salentino: ) is a province in the Apulia region of Italy whose capital is the city of Lecce. The province is called the "Heel of Italy". Located on the Salento peninsula, it is the second most-p ...

, in

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, from 2004 until 2009. As representative of the

(DS), he defeated Raffaele Baldassare (

House of Freedoms The House of Freedoms ( it, Casa delle Libertà, CdL) was a major centre-right political and electoral alliance in Italy, led by Silvio Berlusconi. History The CdL was the successor of the Pole of Freedoms/Pole of Good Government and the Pole f ...

) during the June 2004 elections with 51.8% of the vote, supported by a

center-left Centre-left politics lean to the left on the left–right political spectrum but are closer to the centre than other left-wing politics. Those on the centre-left believe in working within the established systems to improve social justice. The ce ...

coalition. He retired from politics in June 2009.

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* ''Fasanella Giovanni, Pellegrino Giovanni'', La guerra civile, Editore : BUR Biblioteca Univ. Rizzoli, 2005. - A book about the more as 60 years long low intensity civil war in Italy.

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Commissione parlamentare d'inchiesta sul terrorismo in Italia e sulle cause della mancata individuazione dei responsabili delle stragi
1939 births Living people People from Lecce Place of birth missing (living people) Democrats of the Left politicians Presidents of the Province of Lecce {{Italy-politician-stub

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