Anna Rossomando

Anna Rossomando
Member of the Senate
Incumbent
Assumed office
23 March 2018
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
29 April 2008 – 23 March 2018
Personal details
Born (1963-06-30) 30 June 1963 (age 61)
Turin, Italy
Political partyPCI (1977-1991)
PDS (1991-1998)
DS (1998-2007)
PD (since 2007)
Alma materUniversity of Turin
OccupationPolitician, lawyer

Anna Rossomando (born 30 June 1963) is an Italian politician from the Democratic Party, vice president of the Senate since 2018.

Biography

Born in Turin, the city where she currently lives, Rossomando graduated with a degree in law from the University of Turin in 1989.[1] She worked as a criminal lawyer and holds a law firm based in Turin.[1]

In 1977, at the age of 14, Rossomando joined the Italian Communist Youth Federation, the youth wing of the Italian Communist Party of which she later became a member. She remained in the party even through its transformations into the Democratic Party of the Left, Democrats of the Left and finally the Democratic Party.

From 1997 to 2006, Rossomando was a city councilor in Turin during the second mayoral term of Valentino Castellani and the first mayoral term of Sergio Chiamparino.[1]

At the 2008 general election, Rossomando was elected to the Chamber of Deputies,[2] being re-elected at the following election.[3] At the 2018 election, Rossomando was elected to the Senate and became vice president of the Senate.[4]

A member of the left wing of the Democratic Party, Rossomando gave her support to Andrea Orlando during the 2017 primary election[5] and to Nicola Zingaretti at the 2019 primary election.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Official Website". StudioAvvocatoRossomando.it. Retrieved 22 November 2018.
  2. ^ "Speciale elezioni 2008 - Elezioni politiche - Camera - Lista Candidati". La Repubblica. 25 April 2008. Retrieved 22 November 2018.
  3. ^ "Elezioni 2013: eletti in Piemonte Camera e Senato". TorinoToday.it. 26 February 2013. Retrieved 22 November 2018.
  4. ^ "Senato, voto l'ufficio presidenza: tensione tra Pd e M5s. Ai democratici un vice. Ma niente questori né segretari". Il Fatto Quotidiano. 28 March 2018. Retrieved 22 November 2018.
  5. ^ "Torino, ecco i Dem torinesi a sostegno di Orlando segretario". La Repubblica. 23 February 2017. Retrieved 22 November 2018.
  6. ^ "Rossomando: "Diciamo no a leggi- spot, il colpo lo aveva assestato Orlando"". ildubbio.news. 6 September 2018. Archived from the original on 1 December 2018. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
  • Files about her parliamentary activities (in Italian): XVI, XVII, XVIII legislature.