| Office: | Minister of Labor and Social Security |
| Primeminister: | Giuliano Amato |
| Term Start: | 25 April 2000 |
| Term End: | 11 June 2001 |
| Office2: | Member of the Senate of the Republic |
| Term Start2: | 23 April 1992 |
| Term End2: | 28 April 2008 |
| Birth Date: | 9 June 1948 |
| Birth Place: | Lecce, Province of Lecce, Italy |
| Profession: | Politician, University professor |
| Party: | Italian Communist Party Democratic Party of the Left Democrats of the Left Socialism 2000 |
| Residence: | Rome |
| Nationality: | Italian |
Cesare Salvi (born 9 June 1948) is an Italian politician who served as minister of labor and social security.
Salvi was born in Lecce on 9 June 1948.[1]
Salvi was the spokesperson for the secretary of the Democrats of the Left (DS).[2] He was a senator from 1992 to 2008. He was also head of the DS senators.[3]
He served as the relatore (secretary) for one of the four sub-committees (specifically one about the form of government) dealing the future form of the Italian governments under the joint constitutional committee launched during the period of 1997-1998.[4] He was appointed labor minister to the cabinet headed by Prime Minister Giuliano Amato in June 2000.[5] Salvi replaced Antonio Bassolino as labor minister.[6] He was in office until 2001.
Then Salvi served as the head of the judiciary committee at the 14th senate of Italy from 30 May 2001 to 27 April 2006.[7] [8] He became the leader of the DS's left wing, ‘Sinistra per il Socialismo’ (Left for Socialism), in the mid-2000s.[9]
Salvi is the author of the following books: Il contenuto del diritto di proprietà. Artt. 832-833 (1994; The content of the property right. Articles 832 to 833), La rosa rossa: Il futuro della sinistra (Ingrandimenti) (2000; The red rose: The Future of the Left (enlargements)) and La responsabilità civile (2005; Responsibility of Civils).[10] He also published a book about cronyism in 2005, The Cost of Democracy.[11]