Giuseppe Gargani

Giuseppe Gargani ( born April 23, 1935 in Morra De Sanctis ) is an Italian lawyer and politician of the Unione di Centro ( UDC ) and, since June 6, 2011 Member of the European Parliament. Previously, he served as a member of the Italian Parliament for the Christian Democratic and Christian Democrats from 1999 to 2009 MEP for the right-wing Forza Italia or its successor party Popolo della Libertà.

Life

Already during his studies in law to Gargani in 1956 with the Christian Democratic Party Christian Democrats ( DC), where he held various party posts. Among other things, he was DC Regional Secretary for Campania and member of the party executive and spokesman on justice matters. 1970-1972 was Gargani President of the province of Avellino, from 1972 to 1994 he was a member of the Italian Parliament, where he was repeatedly elected as Chairman of the Legal Committee. 1979 to 1984 he also served as Secretary of State in the Italian Ministry of Justice.

After the dissolution of DC and the founding of the new party, Forza Italia, Silvio Berlusconi under 1994 Gargani closed at this and ran from 2001 the Department of Justice of the party. 2009, the Forza Italia finally went on in the Popolo della Libertà newly established.

In the European elections of 1999 he was elected to the European Parliament, where he was a board member of the EPP-ED group. He was also first to 2002, Chairman of the Culture Committee, from 2002 Chairman of the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (from the 2004 European elections, only the Legal Committee ).

In the European elections in Italy in 2009, took in the Gargani on the PdL list, he would have won in his constituency Southern Italy according to its number of preferential votes again a seat in Parliament. However, the turnout in southern Italy was significantly lower than in other regions, so that the Italian Interior Minister Roberto Maroni ordered that five actually the constituencies southern Italy and Italian islands entitled mandates were transferred to central and northern Italian constituencies. This drew a rather Gargani Giovanni Collino in Parliament, who had also competed for the PdL, but then the Futuro e Libertà per l' Italia joined. Gargani appealed against this decision and it was also supported by the Consiglio di Stato. In early June, 2011, then the Court of Cassation Gargani law, so that he could take his seat as an MEP again.

Just one year earlier, in March 2010, Gargani was withdrawn from the PdL to form their own political group called EuropaSud. In May 2010 he joined the Unione di Centro with this.