1. Elisabetta Casellati was President of the Italian Senate from 2018 to 2022.
19 Facts About Elisabetta Casellati
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Elisabetta Casellati was the first woman ever to have held this position.
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Elisabetta Casellati's father was a partisan during the Second World War.
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Elisabetta Casellati graduated with a degree in law at the University of Ferrara.
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Elisabetta Casellati was a university researcher at the University of Padua.
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Elisabetta Casellati practiced the profession of matrimonial lawyer in Padua.
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Elisabetta Casellati has two children, writer and bicycle advocate Ludovica Casellati and conductor Alvise Casellati.
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Elisabetta Casellati was not re-elected in 1996 snap election and was defeated by the candidate by just a few votes.
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On 30 December 2004, Elisabetta Casellati was appointed undersecretary to Health in Berlusconi's second cabinet.
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Elisabetta Casellati held this office in Berlusconi's third cabinet, until 16 May 2006.
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Elisabetta Casellati was re-elected again in the 2006 general election, which saw a narrow victory for the centre-left party of Romano Prodi; Casellati was confirmed vice-leader of her party in the Senate.
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The 2008 election featured a strong showing by Berlusconi's new party The People of Freedom and his centre-right coalition; Elisabetta Casellati was re-elected in the Senate and served as undersecretary for Justice from 12 May 2008 to 16 November 2011, when the conservative Prime Minister was forced to resign amid financial crisis and public protests.
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Elisabetta Casellati was supported by her own party, the League, Brothers of Italy and the Five Star Movement.
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Elisabetta Casellati was strongly supported by the League's leader Matteo Salvini, who stated that it was a "true honor to propose her as the first female president".
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Elisabetta Casellati gained a mere result of 382 votes, far below the majority threshold of 505 required to be elected and even below the number of centre-right electors, due to more than 70 so-called "snipers".
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Elisabetta Casellati was followed by Mattarella with 46 votes and Di Matteo with 38.
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On 22 October 2022, following the right-wing victory in the general election, Elisabetta Casellati was appointed Minister for Institutional Reforms in the government of Giorgia Meloni.
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In late December 2022, Meloni announced that Elisabetta Casellati would meet with the opposition parties to officially begin the roadmap towards a constitutional reform to strengthen the powers of the Prime Minister.
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Elisabetta Casellati is a strong supporter of the flat tax and when she became president of the Senate, she stated that the priority for Italy was a tax reform to support families and businesses.