Franco Marini (born 9 April 1933) is an Italian politician, prominent member of the centre-left Daisy party, and newly-elected Speaker of the Senate of Italy. April 9 is the 99th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (100th in leap years). ... 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Daisy-Democracy is Freedom (full name in Italian: Democrazia è Libertà – La Margherita: Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy) is a centrist political Party in Italy. ... The Italian Senate (Italian: Senato della Repubblica, Senate of the Republic) is the upper house of the Parliament of Italy. ...

Biography

Marini was born in San Pio delle Camere, in the Province of L'Aquila (Abruzzo). Aquila (It. ... Abruzzo is a region of central Italy bordering Marche to the north, Lazio to the west and south-west, Molise to the south-east and the Adriatic Sea to the east. ...

A law graduate and trade unionist, Marini joined the Christian Democracy party in 1950 and was elected leader of the CISL trade union in 1985. He left the CISL in 1991 in order to become the Minister of Labour in the government of Giulio Andreotti. Candidate in the 1992 election for the Christian Democracy, he was the most voted candidate in the country for what it was the leading Italian party at the time. In 1997 Marini was appointed leader of the Italian Popular Party, heir of the disbanded Christian Democracy, but he left the position in 1999 because of a poor party result in the European election. After the Italian Popular Party joined the Daisy, he became the organizational secretary for the newly founded party. SITO ISTITUZIONALE DELLA DEMOCRAZIA CRISTIANA Christian Democracy, (Democrazia Cristiana), the Christian democratic party of Italy, commonly called the democristiani or DC, dominated government for nearly half a century until its demise amid a welter of corruption allegations in 1992-94. ... 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... CISL may mean: Continental Indoor Soccer League CISL, a radio station in Vancouver, British Columbia. ... This article is about the year. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Giulio Andreotti Giulio Andreotti (born in Rome, 14 January 1919) is an Italian political figure, among the most powerful in post-war Italy. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII in Roman) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...

On April 29, 2006, after the centre-left victory in the general election, Franco Marini was appointed Speaker of the Italian Senate after three votings, defeating Giulio Andreotti, candidate of the House of Freedoms and his former party fellow during the Christian Democracy times, by 165 votes to 156 and succeeding to Marcello Pera. April 29 is the 119th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (120th in leap years). ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... LUnione (The Union in English) is an Italian left-wing coalition of parties. ... A general election for the renewal of the two Chambers of the Parliament of Italy was held on April 9 and April 10, 2006. ... Giulio Andreotti Giulio Andreotti (born in Rome, 14 January 1919) is an Italian political figure, among the most powerful in post-war Italy. ... Casa delle Libertà, or House of Freedoms in English, is an Italian right of center party alliance led by national media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi. ... Marcello Pera (born January 28, 1943) is an Italian liberal philosopher and politician, linked with the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) and the Radical Party, before being elected Senator for Forza Italia in the general elections of 1994. ...