Vittoria Baldino Explained

Vittoria Baldino
Birth Date:28 May 1988
Birth Place:Rossano, Italy
Nationality:Italian
Party:M5S (since 2012)
Occupation:Politician, lawyer
Term Start1:19 March 2018
Parliamentarygroup1:M5S (since 2018)
Constituency1:Lazio 1 (2018–2022)
Calabria 1 (since 2022)

Vittoria Baldino (born 28 May 1988) is an Italian politician and lawyer. She was elected to be a deputy to the Parliament of Italy in the 2018 Italian general election for the Legislature XVIII of Italy.

Career

Baldino was born in 1988 in Rossano, in the Southern Italy region of Calabria.[1] She graduated in law from the Sapienza University of Rome with a thesis on finance science. Since 2016, she has been practicing in Rome as a lawyer specialized in administrative and urban planning law. In the 2018 general election on 5 March, she was elected to the Italian Parliament to represent the district of Lazio for the Five Star Movement.[2] She was subsequently replaced by Angela Salafia (it) but was subsequently reinstated in a different Lazio district.[3]

In the 2022 Italian general election on 25 September, she was narrowly defeated in the first-past-the-post constituency of Calabria 1 with 35.25% of the vote compared to the 38.12% of the centre-right coalition candidate. She was elected through proportional representation in the same constituency.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Baldino Vittoria - M5S . it . Government of Italy . 2018 . 11 October 2020.
  2. News: Elezioni 2018, 'tagliola' M5S: fuori Andreatta e Baldino . it . Affar Italiani . 26 January 2018 . 11 October 2020.
  3. News: "Ormai non ci credevo più": i sei ripescati M5S dell'ultimo minuto . it . Corriere . Emanuele . Buzzi . 2018 . 11 October 2020.
  4. News: 2022-09-26 . Eletti alla Camera alle elezioni 2022: ecco i nuovi deputati sia all'uninominale che al proporzionale . 2022-12-11 . La Repubblica . it.