Francesca Alderisi (born 29 March 1968) is an Italian politician and television presenter. Since

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, she has been a

Senator A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or Legislative chamber, chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the Ancient Rome, ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior ...

from

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 ...

representing North and Central America.

Biography

Since 2000, she has presented and written eight editions of Sportello Italia, a service television program broadcast worldwide by Rai International where, in 2015, she presented the program ''Cara Francesca''.

Election to Senator

In the 2018 general elections she was elected to the Senate of the Republic, in the foreign constituency ( North America and Central America) as a member of

in the center-right unitary list "Salvini-Berlusconi-Meloni", by virtue of 10,994 personal preferences. On October 4, 2019, she donated to the Historical Archive of the

Senate A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the el ...

"his collection of writings in the form of memoirs, diaries and stories (...) received from Italians abroad on all continents in twenty years of activity in this field". In December 2019 she was among the 64 signatories (of which 41 from Forza Italia) of the confirmation referendum on the reduction of parliamentarians: a few months earlier, Berlusconi's senators had left the room during the vote on the constitutional reform.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Alderisi, Francesca 1968 births Living people People from Treviso Mass media people from Rome Forza Italia (2013) senators Italian women television presenters Senators of Legislature XVIII of Italy 21st-century Italian women politicians People of Campanian descent Politicians from Rome 20th-century Italian women Women members of the Senate of the Republic (Italy)