Luigi Zanda (born 28 November 1942) is an Italian politician, member of the
Senate of the Republic and leader of the
Democratic Party in the Senate.
Political career
Zanda was born in
Cagliari
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in 1942. After becoming a
lawyer
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he started working for the
Institute for Industrial Reconstruction (IRI). During 1970s Zanda joined the
Christian Democracy
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Christian democracy has drawn mainly from Catholic social teaching and neo-scholasticism, as well ...
(DC) and cooperated with the Ministry of Public Administration. Then he became the spokesperson of the Christian democratic leader
Francesco Cossiga
Francesco Maurizio Cossiga (; , ; 1928 – 2010)
.
.
In 2003 Zanda was elected at the Italian Senate for
The Daisy, a centrist party, heir of the DC left-wing. In 2007 he was among the founding fathers of the centre-left
Democratic Party. On 19 March 2013, after the
February's general election, he was elected by acclamation PD leader in the Senate.
Luigi Zanda – Partito Democratico
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References
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1943 births
Living people
Christian Democracy (Italy) politicians
Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy politicians
Democratic Party (Italy) politicians
Members of the Senate of the Republic (Italy)
Senators of Legislature XVIII of Italy
20th-century Italian politicians