Maurizio Sacconi

Maurizio Sacconi ( born July 13, 1950 in Conegliano, Treviso ) is an Italian politician of the Popolo della Libertà. In Silvio Berlusconi's fourth cabinet he was from May 2008 to November 2011 Minister of Labour, Health and Social Affairs.

Political career

After studying law Sacconi was first active in the 1970s and 1980s, for the Partito Socialista Italiano ( PSI), as whose representative he was first elected in 1979 in the Italian Chamber of Deputies. After his re-election as an MP three times (1983, 1987 and 1992), the PSI disbanded in the wake of the corruption scandal Tangentopoli, Sacconi and Berlusconi's Forza Italia joined the newly founded on.

From 1994 to 2001 he worked at the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in Geneva. In May 2001 he was again elected to the Chamber of Deputies and appointed until 2006 as Secretary of State in the Ministry of Labour and Social Security in the second and third Berlusconi Cabinet. After the murder of his colleague Marco Biagi by the Red Brigades in March 2002 Sacconi founded the Associazione Amici di Marco Biagi (German: Society of Friends of Marco Biagi ), which he is chairman, and argued forcefully for the adoption of a designed by Biagi Law to loosen a dismissal protection.

In the parliamentary elections of 2006 Sacconi was chosen for the Forza Italia in the Senate, where he belonged to the Committee on Labour and Social Welfare to 2008. On 8 May 2008, he was appointed after the clear election victory of Berlusconi's Popolo della Libertà rechtsliberalem alliance to department chief of the newly combined Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Affairs.

Sacconi is married and has a son.