Cesare Salvi (born 9 June 1948) is an Italian politician who served as minister of labor and social security.

Cesare Salvi
Minister of Labor and Social Security
In office
25 April 2000 – 11 June 2001
Prime MinisterGiuliano Amato
Preceded byAntonio Bassolino
Member of the Senate of the Republic
In office
23 April 1992 – 28 April 2008
Personal details
Born (1948-06-09) 9 June 1948 (age 76)
Lecce, Province of Lecce, Italy
Political partyItalian Communist Party
Democratic Party of the Left
Democrats of the Left
Socialism 2000
ResidenceRome
ProfessionPolitician, University professor

Early life

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Salvi was born in Lecce on 9 June 1948.[1][2]

Career

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Salvi was the spokesperson for the secretary of the Democrats of the Left (DS).[3] He was a senator from 1992 to 2008.[1] He was also head of the DS senators.[4]

He served as the relatore (secretary) for one of the four sub-committees (specifically one about the form of government) dealing the future form of the Italian governments under the joint constitutional committee launched during the period of 1997-1998.[5] He was appointed labor minister to the cabinet headed by Prime Minister Giuliano Amato in June 2000.[6] Salvi replaced Antonio Bassolino as labor minister.[7] He was in office until 2001.

Then Salvi served as the head of the judiciary committee at the 14th senate of Italy from 30 May 2001 to 27 April 2006.[1][8] He became the leader of the DS's left wing, ‘Sinistra per il Socialismo’ (Left for Socialism), in the mid-2000s.[9]

Books

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Salvi is the author of the following books: Il contenuto del diritto di proprietà. Artt. 832-833 (1994; The content of the property right. Articles 832 to 833), La rosa rossa: Il futuro della sinistra (Ingrandimenti) (2000; The red rose: The Future of the Left (enlargements)) and La responsabilità civile (2005; Responsibility of Civils).[10] He also published a book about cronyism in 2005, The Cost of Democracy.[11]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Cesare Salvi". Italian Senate. Retrieved 11 September 2013.
  2. ^ Piero Ignazi (2003). "Italy". European Journal of Political Research. 40 (3–4): 340–347. doi:10.1111/1475-6765.00054-i2.
  3. ^ Salvatore Vassallo (2005). "The Constitutional Reforms of the Center-Right". Italian Politics. Quo Vadis. 20 (1): 130. ISBN 978-1-84545-137-0.
  4. ^ Jorge Pina (10 April 1997). "Government Gets Senate Vote of Confidence". Inter Press Service. Retrieved 27 February 2013.
  5. ^ Mark Gilbert (1998). "Transforming Italy's institutions? The bicameral committee on institutional reform". Modern Italy. 3 (1): 49–66. doi:10.1080/13532949808454791. S2CID 144222894.
  6. ^ Mark Gilbert; Gianfranco Pasquino, eds. (2000). Italian Politics, a Review: A Publication of the Conference Group on Italian Politics and the Carlo Cattaneo Institute. New York; Oxford: Berghahn Books. p. 10. ISBN 978-1-57181-840-9.
  7. ^ Giorgio Giraudi (2008). "Italy and Regulatory Policy". In Sergio Fabbrini; Simona Piattoni (eds.). Italy in the European Union: Redefining National Interest in a Compound Polity. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 72. ISBN 978-0-7425-5566-2.
  8. ^ "Senate bodies". Italian Senate. Retrieved 27 February 2013.
  9. ^ Lapo Salucci (2008). "Left No More: Exit, Voice and Loyalty in the Dissolution of a Party" (Conference paper). APSA.
  10. ^ "Books by Cesare Salvi". Amazon. Retrieved 13 September 2013.
  11. ^ Elisabetta Povoledo (27 July 2007). "A book grabs attention by depicting Italian politicians as greedy and self-referential". The New York Times. Retrieved 27 February 2013.
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