Enzo Bianco Explained

Enzo Bianco
Office:Italian Minister of the Interior
Term Start:22 December 1999
Term End:10 June 2001
Primeminister:Massimo D'Alema
Giuliano Amato
Predecessor:Rosa Russo Jervolino
Successor:Claudio Scajola
Office2:Mayor of Catania
Term Start2:29 July 1988
Term End2:1 December 1989
Predecessor2:Giuseppe Azzaro
Successor2:Guido Ziccone
Term Start3:20 June 1993
Term End3:22 January 2000
Predecessor3:Angelo Lo Presti
Successor3:Umberto Scapagnini
Term Start4:15 June 2013
Term End4:18 June 2018
Predecessor4:Raffaele Stancanelli
Successor4:Salvo Pogliese
Term Start5:23 April 1992
Term End5:20 June 1993
Term Start6:30 May 2001
Term End6:28 April 2006
Term Start7:28 April 2006
Term End7:15 March 2013
Birth Name:Vincenzo Bianco
Birth Date:1951 2, df=y
Birth Place:Aidone, Italy
Nationality:Italian
Occupation:Lawyer
Alma Mater:University of Catania

Enzo Bianco (born 24 February 1951) is an Italian politician, former mayor of Catania and former Minister of the Interior.

Early life

Bianco was born on 24 February 1951 in Aidone, province of Enna, Italy.[1]

Career

Bianco has been a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1992 to 1993 with the Italian Republican Party and from 2001 to 2006 with The Olive Tree. He has then been Senator from 2006 to 2013 with the Democratic Party.

Bianco has been Minister of interior from 1999 to 2001 in the D'Alema II Cabinet and in the Amato II Cabinet.[1]

He has been for a short period Mayor of Catania from 1988 to 1989 and has been re-elected in 1993, becoming the first mayor elected directly by the citizens of Catania, and in 1997, leaving the office in order to assume the charge of Minister of interior.After failing to be re-elected mayor in 2005, he manages to be re-elected in 2013, holding the charge for 5 more years. At the 2018 communal elections, he is defeated by the Forza Italia candidate Salvo Pogliese.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Bianco, Enzo. Rulers. 16 March 2013.