Iolanda Di Stasio (born 24 February 1992) is an Italian politician. She was a member of the

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, elected with the

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in the

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. In 2022, following Luigi Di Maio's split, she joined

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Biography

Born in

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, she grew up and was educated in Afragola, a municipality in the

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, where she graduated from the Brunelleschi state scientific high school, with a focus on science and language. Immediately after graduation, she enrolled in the Faculty of Law at the

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without completing her studies. She is married to Pierfrancesco Dettori, one of the major collaborators of

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Political career

Activist

At a very young age, she approached the 5 Star Movement in 2012, participating in the activities of the Afragola Meetup. In 2017, she denounced possible connections between

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and the tenders for the construction of the Afragola high-speed line station. As an activist first and then as a spokesperson, she dealt with issues related to the Campania region, such as organized crime and the Land of Fires (').

Parliamentarian

In the

she ran for the

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in the Campania 1 constituency and was elected to the

. Since 21 June 2018, she was a member of the Foreign Affairs Commttee for the Chamber of Deputies and of the Justice Commission, replacing the Undersecretary of State for Justice . In January 2019 she was elected president of the Permanent Committee on

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in the Chamber. In February 2019 she was appointed President of the UIP (Inter-Parliamentary Union) "

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and

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". On 20 December 2019 she presented as the first signatory a bill aimed at the concrete definition of Italy's

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in the

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, an initiative considered functional to align Italy in the race to define rights in extra-territorial waters already started by countries such as

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and

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. On 21 June 2022,

split from the

, following the disagreements between him and the president of the M5S

Giuseppe Conte Giuseppe Conte (; born 8 August 1964) is an Italian jurist, academic, and politician who served as Prime Minister of Italy, prime minister of Italy from June 2018 to February 2021. He has been the president of the Five Star Movement (M5S) sin ...

. Di Stasio joined Insieme per il futuro (Ipf), becoming its group leader in the Chamber two days later. In the early political elections of 25 September 2022, she was nominated for re-election to the Chamber for the

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of Ipf (''Impegno Civico -

Centro Democratico Democratic Centre (, CD) is a centrism, centrist, Christian leftist and Social liberalism, social-liberal political party in Italy. Most of its members, including its leader Bruno Tabacci, are former Christian Democracy (Italy), Christian Democ ...

''), as head of the list in the multi-member constituency Campania 1, but she was not elected.

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