Stefania Prestigiacomo

Stefania Prestigiacomo ( born December 16, 1966 in Syracuse) is an Italian politician of the Popolo della Libertà and businesswoman. In Silvio Berlusconi's second and third cabinet, she led the Italian Ministry for Equality (2001-2006). From May 2008 to November 2011 was Minister for the Environment, Land and Sea.

Political career

The daughter of a Syracusan family business that the firm has COEMI in Priolo Gargallo petrochemical industrial area, Stefania Prestigiacomo has been chosen at a young age even do business with 23 years as Chairman of the ' Association of Young Entrepreneurs of Syracuse '. She studied management science and passed through her ​​husband Angelo Bellucci for Forza Italia, for which she was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1994. Her uncle Santi Nicita, the 1983 - 1984 was President of the Sicilian Region, supported them in their political career.

In the Italian Parliament, she worked in the Committee on Public and Private work as well as in the Special Commission for Child Protection. She was also a deputy member of the Euro Europe and the Western European Union. In the parliamentary elections of 1996, 2001, 2006 and 2008, she was re-elected in their Sicilian constituency; 1996 to 2001 she was deputy parliamentary leader of her party in the Chamber of Deputies. In June 2001, Silvio Berlusconi brought them into his government (Cabinet Berlusconi II) as ' Minister for Civil Rights and Equality '. This position she held until the change of government in May 2006.

In regional elections in Sicily it was in both 2005 and 2008 as the top candidate of the center-right coalition Casa delle Libertà and Popolo della Libertà in conversation, both times was a male candidate preferred and chosen: 2005 Totò Cuffaro and 2008 Raffaele Lombardo. On 8 May 2008, Berlusconi appointed her as Minister of the Environment in his fourth cabinet.

On 22 December 2010, it announced the withdrawal of her party after she was outvoted at a vote on a development application to the problem of waste from their own party. She took the announcement after talks with Berlusconi briefly back to it.

As one of its successes, the prohibition of plastic bags in Italy, which entered into force on 1 January 2011, but was not implemented in 2013.