Pierre Carniti (25 September 1936 – 5 June 2018) was an

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politician and trade unionist. Carniti was born in

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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 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 ...

(PSI). Carniti was president of the Parliamentary Commission on Poverty from 1994 to 1997. He was a Member of the

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from 1989 to 1999, associated with the

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. In 1993, with Ermanno Gorrieri, he left the PSI to co-found the

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party

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(CS).

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*Files about his parliamentary activities (in Italian)
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legislature. 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 {{Lombardy-politician-stub

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