Luciano Violante

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Luciano Violante
President of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
10 May 1996 – 29 May 2001
Preceded byIrene Pivetti
Succeeded byPier Ferdinando Casini
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
20 June 1979 – 28 April 2008
ConstituencyTurin (1979–1994; 2001–2006)
Collegno (1994–1996)
Sicily (1996–2001; 2006–2008)
Personal details
Born (1941-09-25) 25 September 1941 (age 82)
Dire Dawa, Italian East Africa
Political partyPCI (before 1991)
PDS (1991–1998)
DS (1998–2007)
PD (since 2007)
Alma materUniversity of Bari
ProfessionMagistrate, university professor

Luciano Violante (born 25 September 1941) is an Italian judge and politician.

Biography

Violante was born in

fascist
regime. His family was held by the British in an internment camp, where Violante was born and remained until 1943.

Graduated in

investigative magistrate in Turin
in 1979. In 1983 he became a professor of legal institutions and penal procedure and resigned from the magistrature.

Violante became a member of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) in 1979 and was immediately elected to the Parliament. From 1980 to 1987 he was the PCI spokesman for legal policy. He then became the vice-president of the PCI parliamentary group. Following the split of the PCI in 1991, he entered the Democratic Party of the Left (PDS). He was a member of the Inquiry into the Aldo Moro case, of the Antimafia Commission, the parliamentary committee for the security services, the commission for the reform of the penal code, the Justice Commission and the Council for the Regulation of the House of Deputies.

Violante was President of the

Salvo Lima, the so-called "proconsul" of former prime minister Giulio Andreotti
in Sicily.

On 16 November 1992

Salvo Lima as the contact of the Mafia in Italian politics. "Salvo Lima was, in fact, the politician to whom Cosa Nostra turned most often to resolve problems for the organisation whose solution lay in Rome," Buscetta testified.[1]

Violante was elected president of the

Chamber of Deputies on 10 May 1996 and remained in office until 29 May 2001. Re-elected at the 2001 election, he was named president of the Olive Tree
-Democrats of the Left parliamentary group.

Beside books on law and penal procedure, he is the author of two books of interviews about the Mafia: La mafia dell'eroina (1987) and I corleonesi (1993). He has also published: Il piccone e la quercia (1992); Non è la piovra (1995) and a poem, Cantata per i bambini morti di mafia (1995). He has been the editor of Dizionario delle istituzioni e dei diritti del cittadino (1996) and of three reports on the Mafia: Mafie e antimafia - Rapporto 1996; Mafia e società italiana - Rapporto 1997 and I soldi della mafia - Rapporto 1998. He also edited two volumes of the Annali della Storia d'Italia ("Annals of the History of Italy"): La criminalità (1997) and Legge Diritto Giustizia. In 1998 he published L'Italia dopo il 1999. La sfida per la stabilità (1998).

Luciano Violante considers himself "a believer" but he does not adhere to the Catholic Church.[2]

Electoral history

Election House Constituency Party Votes Result Notes
1979 Chamber of Deputies Turin–Novara–Vercelli PCI 20,516 checkY Elected [1]
1983 Chamber of Deputies Turin–Novara–Vercelli PCI 19,201 checkY Elected [2]
1987 Chamber of Deputies Turin–Novara–Vercelli PCI 18,069 checkY Elected [3]
1992 Chamber of Deputies Turin–Novara–Vercelli PDS 8,256 checkY Elected [4]
1994 Chamber of Deputies Collegno PDS 36,368 checkY Elected [5]
1996 Chamber of Deputies Sicily 1 PDS –[a] checkY Elected [6]
2001 Chamber of Deputies Turin 2 DS 35,882 checkY Elected [7]
2006 Chamber of Deputies Sicily 2 DS –[b] checkY Elected [8]
  1. ^ Elected in a closed list proportional representation system.
  2. ^ Elected in a closed list proportional representation system.

Notes

  1. ^ (in Italian) Audizione del collaboratore della giustizia Tommaso Buscetta
  2. ^ Soglio, Elisabetta (20 August 2017). "Violante: al Meeting di Cl si fa formazione, nei partiti non più – Corriere.it" (in Italian).

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Political offices
Preceded by
President of the Chamber of Deputies

1996–2001 		Succeeded by
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