Carlo Alberto Tesserin (

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, 15 January 1938) is an Italian politician from

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. A long-time member of

Christian Democracy Christian democracy is an ideology inspired by Christian social teaching to respond to the challenges of contemporary society and politics. Christian democracy has drawn mainly from Catholic social teaching and neo-scholasticism, as well ...

, Tesserin was Vice President of the Region in 1993–1994. Following the dissolution of Christian Democracy, he joined the Italian People's Party, however, in early 2000, he switched his party affiliation to

Forza Italia (FI; ) was a centre-right liberal-conservative political party in Italy, with Christian democratic,Chiara Moroni, , Carocci, Rome 2008 liberalOreste Massari, ''I partiti politici nelle democrazie contempoiranee'', Laterza, Rome-Bari 2004 (esp ...

. In 2008 he joined

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and in 2013 the

New Centre-Right New Centre-Right (, NCD) was a centre-right political party in Italy. The party was launched on 15 November 2013 by a group of dissidents of The People of Freedom (PdL) who opposed the party's reformation as Forza Italia (2013), Forza Italia (FI) ...

. He was the longest-serving member of the

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, having been elected in 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005 and 2010.

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Forza Italia politicians Living people 1938 births The People of Freedom politicians 21st-century Italian politicians Italian People's Party (1994) politicians Members of the Regional Council of Veneto Christian Democracy (Italy) politicians 20th-century Italian politicians {{Italy-politician-ThePeopleofFreedom-stub