Luciana Sbarbati Explained

Luciana Sbarbati
Office1:Member of the Senate
Term Start1:29 April 2008
Term End1:14 March 2013
Constituency1:Sardinia
Office2:Member of the European Parliament
Term Start2:20 July 1999
Term End2:29 April 2008
Constituency2:Central Italy
Office3:Member of the Chamber of Deputies
Term Start3:13 April 1992
Term End3:20 July 1999
Constituency3:Marche
Birth Date:1946 5, df=y
Birth Place:Rome, Italy
Nationality:Italian
Profession:Politician, school principal
Alma Mater:Libera UniversitĂ  Maria SS. Assunta

Luciana Sbarbati (born 10 May 1946 in Rome) is an Italian politician.

She is a substitute for the Committee on Budgets and a member of the Delegation to the EU-Romania Joint Parliamentary Committee.

Biography

Graduated in philosophy and psychology at the LUMSA in 1969, Luciana Sbarbati worked as university assistant and school principal. As member of the Italian Republican Party, she was elected parliamentary Deputy in 1992, in 1994 (into the Alliance of Progressives) and 1996 (into the Populars for Prodi).

In 1999, she was elected MEP and was re-confirmed in 2004. As MEP she was member of the Bureau of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and its Committee on Petitions.

In 2001, in opposition to the PRI's decision to forge an alliance with the House of Freedoms, she left the party and founded the European Republicans Movement.

In the 2008 general election she was elected Senator among the ranks of the Democratic Party. In 2011, with the reunification of PRI and MRE, sanctioned by the PRI congress held in Rome on 25-27 February, Luciana Sbarbati returned to the PRI and its National Directorate.

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