Giovanni Roberti (3 February 1909 – 18 January 2010) was an Italian politician.

Biography

Giovanni Roberti was born in 1909 in

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. During the

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he was captured by the British and interned in the Hereford concentration camp (known as "Fascists' criminal camp") in

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. A Labor lawyer and professor of labor legislation at the

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, he was co-founder and president from 1950 and secretary general from 1964 to 1977 of CISNAL, the union close to the positions of

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. Roberti was elected in 1948 to the Chamber of Deputies in the constituency of Naples among the ranks of the

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and he sat uninterruptedly in

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from the first to the seventh parliamentary legislature (1976–1979). In 1977 he joined the

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party. Since 1979, after the election defeat of National Democracy, he retired from politics. In 1988 he published the volume "The right-wing opposition in Italy, 1946–1979". He died on 18 January 2010, at the age of 100.Gianni Roberti, dal Fascists’ criminal camp alla pattuglia del Msi del 1948
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