Dorina Bianchi

Dorina Bianchi
Dorina Bianchi
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
	In office; 30 May 2001 – 29 April 2008
	In office; 14 March 2013 – 22 March 2018
Member of the Senate of the Republic
	In office; 29 April 2008 – 14 March 2013
Personal details
Born	3 June 1966 (age 57); Pisa, Italy
Political party	+E (since 2022)
Other political; affiliations	CCD (2001–2002); UdC (2002–2005; 2009–2011); DL (2005–2007); PD (2007–2009); PdL (2011–2013); NCD (2013–2017); AP (2017–2018)
Alma mater	Magna Græcia University
Occupation	Neuroradiologist

Dorina Bianchi (born 3 June 1966) is an Italian medic and politician.

Biography[edit]

Graduated in medicine and surgery, a neuroradiologist by profession, she was born in Pisa to Calabrian parents. She has always lived in Calabria, but due to her political activity, she is now divided between Rome and Crotone.^[1]

Political activity[edit]

Bianchi started her political experience on the occasion of the 2001 political elections, running for the House of Freedoms coalition and is elected to the Chamber of Deputies.

During the legislature, after having shown a certain intolerance within the centre-right coalition, accused of having initiated poor policies for the South, Bianchi moves on to The Daisy in the center-left side.^[1]

In the 2006 elections she therefore ran for the Chamber of Deputies on The Olive Tree list in Calabria, and she was re-elected. She is a candidate in the primary elections of the Democratic Party in 2007 and is elected in the national constituent assembly of the party.

In the 2008 elections she becomes a senator, elected for the lists of the Democratic Party in Calabria.

On 12 February 2009 she was elected leader of the Democratic Party group in the Hygiene and Health Commission of the Senate to replace Ignazio Marino, known for his secular positions on end-of-life matters. During the parliamentary debate on the living will, Bianchi repeatedly invoked freedom of conscience in view of the vote on the Calabrò bill on advance declarations of treatment, arousing much criticism from party colleagues. She also expressed herself in favor of the fact-finding investigation on the use of the RU486 pill, in disagreement with the rest of the party. Her appointment as group leader in the Health Committee was criticized in the Assembly of the Circles of the PD for the minority positions carried out during her mandate.^[2]

In the 2011 municipal elections she was nominated for mayor of Crotone by the centre-right coalition formed on the agreement between The People of Freedom and the Union of the Centre. Bianchi ranks second both in the first and the second round.^[3]^[4]

In the 2013 political elections, she was re-elected to the Chamber of Deputies. On November 16, 2013, with the suspension of the activities of the People of Freedom, she joined Angelino Alfano's New Centre-Right On 29 January 2016 she was appointed Undersecretary to the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism in the Renzi Cabinet and in December in the Gentiloni Cabinet.^{[citation needed]}

After 17 years spent in Parliament, she didn't run for the 2018 elections.^{[citation needed]}

In the elections of 2022 Bianchi runs for the Chamber of Deputies in the plurinominal college of Calabria with Emma Bonino's More Europe party.^[5]

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b "Dorina Bianchi, il nuovo sottosegretario super cattolico col vizio di cambiare partito". L'Espresso. 29 January 2016. Retrieved 1 September 2022.
^ "Dorina Bianchi, relatrice Pd al senato sulla indagine per la Ru486, lascia incarico". blitzquotidiano.it. 23 September 2009. Retrieved 1 September 2022.
^ "L'Udc contro se stessa al ballottaggio. A Crotone la Bianchi flirta col premier". La Repubblica. 23 May 2011. Retrieved 1 September 2022.
^ "Divorzio in casa dell'Udc: la senatrice Bianchi trasloca nel Pdl. Ma Casini le aveva già detto addio". Il Sole 24 Ore. 29 June 2011. Retrieved 1 September 2022.
^ "Il ritorno di Dorina Bianchi con +Europa. I candidati nei collegi plurinominali – NOMI". corrieredellacalabria.it. 22 August 2022. Retrieved 1 September 2022.

External links[edit]

Files about her parliamentary activities (in Italian): XIV, XV, XVI, XVII legislature

[espresso-1] "Dorina Bianchi, il nuovo sottosegretario super cattolico col vizio di cambiare partito". L'Espresso. 29 January 2016. Retrieved 1 September 2022.

[2] "Dorina Bianchi, relatrice Pd al senato sulla indagine per la Ru486, lascia incarico". blitzquotidiano.it. 23 September 2009. Retrieved 1 September 2022.

[3] "L'Udc contro se stessa al ballottaggio. A Crotone la Bianchi flirta col premier". La Repubblica. 23 May 2011. Retrieved 1 September 2022.

[4] "Divorzio in casa dell'Udc: la senatrice Bianchi trasloca nel Pdl. Ma Casini le aveva già detto addio". Il Sole 24 Ore. 29 June 2011. Retrieved 1 September 2022.

[5] "Il ritorno di Dorina Bianchi con +Europa. I candidati nei collegi plurinominali – NOMI". corrieredellacalabria.it. 22 August 2022. Retrieved 1 September 2022.

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