Debora Serracchiani (born 10 November 1970) is an Italian

politician A politician is a person who participates in Public policy, policy-making processes, usually holding an elective position in government. Politicians represent the people, make decisions, and influence the formulation of public policy. The roles ...

. Born in Rome, she is a member of Democratic Party, and was president of the Italian region of

Friuli-Venezia Giulia Friuli-Venezia Giulia () is one of the 20 regions of Italy and one of five autonomous regions with special statute. The regional capital is Trieste on the Gulf of Trieste, a bay of the Adriatic Sea. Friuli-Venezia Giulia has an area of and a ...

. In 2016, she proposed and got the approval of a regional law which officially abolished

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of the

, moving their competences to the lower and the upper administrative level, which were respectively the Italian ''

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'' and the ''

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''. Friuli-Venezia Giulia was the first region to implement the 2014 Delrio national law. Serracchiani served as a

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(MEP) of the

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from 2008-13 as a member of the PD. She was also a member of the

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, an alliance within the

. As a MEP and regional leader of the Democratic Party (PD), she narrowly defeated incumbent President Renzo Tondo of The People of Freedom (PdL) 39.4% to 39.0% in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia regional election held on 21–22 April 2013, and she took office on 22 April 2013. Serracchiani is the second woman to hold the office of President of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, since Alessandra Guerra of Lega Nord Friuli (LNF) from 1994–95.Friuli-Venezia Giulia constituency
rulers.org; accessed 29 June 2015. Serracchiani is Director of Institutional Relations of the Italy-USA Foundation.

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1970 births Living people Politicians from Rome Presidents of Friuli-Venezia Giulia MEPs for Italy 2009–2014 21st-century women MEPs for Italy Democratic Party (Italy) MEPs Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats MEPs {{Italy-politician-DemocraticPartyItaly-stub