Raffaele Grazia (born 23 October 1966 in

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) is an Italian politician from

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. A member of

Christian Democracy Christian democracy is an ideology inspired by Christian social teaching to respond to the challenges of contemporary society and politics. Christian democracy has drawn mainly from Catholic social teaching and neo-scholasticism, as well ...

, in 1994 he joined the

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. Elected to the

Regional Council of Veneto The Regional Council of Veneto () is the parliament, legislative assembly of Veneto, Italy. The council, which has its seat at Palazzo Ferro Fini, located along the Grand Canal (Venice), Grand Canal in Venice. was first elected in 1970, when Re ...

in 2000 for

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 ...

(party which he had joined in 1998), he was regional minister of Labour in

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. A close ally of

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, he left Forza Italia in 2006 and joined Veneto for the European People's Party. In 2010 he was re-elected to the Council for the Union of the Centre. Grazia is married with Barbara Degani, who served as President of the

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for

The People of Freedom The People of Freedom (, PdL) was a centre-right political party in Italy. The PdL launched by Silvio Berlusconi as an electoral list, including and National Alliance, on 27 February for the 2008 Italian general election. The list was later t ...

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1955 births Living people People from Bassano del Grappa Christian Democracy (Italy) politicians United Christian Democrats politicians Union of the Centre (2002) politicians Forza Italia politicians Veneto for the European People's Party politicians Members of the Regional Council of Veneto {{Veneto-politician-stub