Renate Gebhard (born 2 May 1977,

Bolzano Bolzano ( ; ; or ) is the capital city of South Tyrol (officially the province of Bolzano), Northern Italy. With a population of 108,245, Bolzano is also by far the largest city in South Tyrol and the third largest in historical Tyrol. The ...

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) is an Italian jurist and politician of

South Tyrolean People's Party The South Tyrolean People's Party (, SVP) is a regionalism (politics), regionalist and mostly Christian democracy, Christian-democratic list of political parties in South Tyrol, political party in South Tyrol, an Autonomous administrative divisio ...

(SVP). She is a current member of the Italian

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Early life and education

She attended high school in Bolzano and later studied law at the

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and

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. She graduated in 2002 and by 2006 she worked as a lawyer in Bolzano.

Political career

In 2005 she was elected into the municipal council of Klausen and in 2013 assumed as a member of the Italian Parliament representing Trentino-Alto Adige for the SVP.

Political positions

Since 2014 she is the spokesperson for the SVP women and as such draws attention to issues such as

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and

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. During the pandemic of Covid she positioned herself in favor of an organized education and the reopening of schools.

References

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