Emerenzio Barbieri (19 October 1946 – 15 June 2025) was an Italian politician.

Life and career

Barbieri was born in

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on 19 October 1946. During his early life, he was a member of the

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and Christian Democratic Center. He was elected for the first time to the

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in the

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, in the single-member constituency of

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, representing the

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. In the XIV Legislature, he was secretary of the Public and Private Employment Commission; he was also a member of the Culture, Science and Education Commission; the Parliamentary Commission for the control of the activities of the bodies managing compulsory forms of social security and assistance; of the Parliamentary Delegation to the Assembly of the Council of Europe; of the Parliamentary Delegation to the

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. In the

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, he was re-elected deputy on the lists of the

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(UDC), this time in the

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. In the XV Legislature, he was Vice-President of the Culture, Science and Education Commission. Already critical of the UDC line, he supported the minority motion led by Carlo Giovanardi at the III Congress in 2007. On 4 February 2008, together with Giovanardi himself, he left the UDC and founded the Popular Liberal movement, which then joined

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's new political project, the

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. In the

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he was therefore re-elected as a deputy, on the lists of the People of Freedom in the Emilia-Romagna constituency. He became a member of the Board of Directors of the PdL in the Chamber of Deputies. He did not run for re-election in

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. Barbieri died on 15 June 2025, at the age of 78.

References

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