Dorina Bianchi (born 3 June 1966) is an Italian medic and politician.

Biography

Graduated in medicine and surgery, a neuroradiologist by profession, she was born in

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to Calabrian parents. She has always lived in Calabria, but due to her political activity, she is now divided between

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and

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Political activity

Bianchi started her political experience on the occasion of the 2001 political elections, running for the

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coalition and is elected to the

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. During the

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, after having shown a certain intolerance within the

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, accused of having initiated poor policies for the South, Bianchi moves on to

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in the center-left side. In the

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she therefore ran for the Chamber of Deputies on The Olive Tree list in Calabria, and she was re-elected. She is a candidate in the primary elections of the Democratic Party in 2007 and is elected in the national constituent assembly of the party. In the

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she becomes a

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, elected for the lists of the Democratic Party in Calabria. On 12 February 2009 she was elected leader of the Democratic Party group in the Hygiene and Health Commission of the

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to replace

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, known for his secular positions on end-of-life matters. During the parliamentary debate on the living will, Bianchi repeatedly invoked freedom of conscience in view of the vote on the Calabrò bill on advance declarations of treatment, arousing much criticism from party colleagues. She also expressed herself in favor of the fact-finding investigation on the use of the RU486 pill, in disagreement with the rest of the party. Her appointment as group leader in the Health Committee was criticized in the Assembly of the Circles of the PD for the minority positions carried out during her mandate. In the 2011 municipal elections she was nominated for mayor of Crotone by the

formed on the agreement between

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and the Union of the Centre. Bianchi ranks second both in the first and the second round. In the 2013 political elections, she was re-elected to the Chamber of Deputies. On November 16, 2013, with the suspension of the activities of the

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, she joined

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On 29 January 2016 she was appointed

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to the

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in the

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and in December in the

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. After 17 years spent in

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, she didn't run for the

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. In the elections of 2022 Bianchi runs for the Chamber of Deputies in the plurinominal college of Calabria with

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party.

References

External links

*Files about her parliamentary activities (in Italian)
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