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