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Gianni Pittella (Giovanni Saverio Furio Pittella) was born on 19 November, 1958 in Lauria, Italy, is an Italian politician (born 1958). Discover Gianni Pittella's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 65 years old?

Popular As Giovanni Saverio Furio Pittella
Occupation N/A
Age 65 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 19 November, 1958
Birthday 19 November
Birthplace Lauria, Italy
Nationality Italy

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1958

Giovanni Saverio Furio Pittella (born 19 November 1958) is an Italian politician who served as Leader of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats Group from 2014 to 2018 and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Italy from 1999 to 2018.

1972

Following the political career of his father Domenico Pittella, who was a member of the Senate (1972–1983), he was a member of the Italian Socialist Party, Labour Federation and Democrats of the Left.

At the age of 21, he was elected to the municipal council of his hometown Lauria and a year later became a member of the regional council of Basilicata with responsibility for training, culture and productive activities.

After graduating in medicine and surgery and later specialising in legal and forensic medicine at the University of Naples Federico II Pitella remained very much involved in local and national politics.

1996

In the 1996 elections, he was elected to the Italian Parliament.

1999

In the 1999 European elections, Pittella was elected to the European Parliament and became a member of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats.

In the European Parliament, Pittella first served on the Committee on Budgets between 1999 and 2009.

Within his parliamentary group, he led the Italian delegation within the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats and also served as the group's First Vice-Chairman between 1999 and 2014, under the leadership of successive chairmen Enrique Barón Crespo (1999-2004), Martin Schulz (2004-2012) and Hannes Swoboda (2012-2014).

2004

He was re-elected in 2004, 2009 and 2014.

2006

In this capacity, he was the Parliament's rapporteur on the 2006 budget, the last under a seven-year expenditure framework.

2009

He previously served as First Vice President of the European Parliament from 2009 to 2014.

He later was a member of the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (2009-2012) and the Committee on Culture and Education (2012-2014).

Pittella served as one of the 14 Vice-Presidents of the European Parliament from 14 July 2009 to 1 July 2014.

He was previously a member of the delegation for relations with Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo (2009-2014); with Australia and New Zealand (2002-2004); and with Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia (1999-2002).

2012

In 2012, Pittella introduced, in Brussels, Simona Mangiante to Joseph Mifsud, a Maltese academic, reportedly with high level ties with the Russian government.

At the time, Mangiante worked for the European Parliament as an attorney specializing in child abduction cases.

Latter she worked as an administrator to the European Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs during the Seventh European Parliament.

2013

In 2013, Pittella was a member of the national leadership council of the PD, then led by Pier Luigi Bersani.

He took part in the 2013 Democratic Party leadership election.

He came fourth out of four with 5.7% in the vote by party members, thus being excluded to the subsequent primary election.

Besides his political work, Gianni is the author of several books on the future and challenges of the European project such as a Brief History of the Future of the United States of Europe (2013).

He is also a visiting professor at the University of East Anglia's London Academy of Diplomacy.

Gianni Pittella is married and has two children.

In September 2013 Pittella's younger brother, Marcello, whose political trajectory is very similar to that of Gianni, won the centre-left primary for the Presidency of Basilicata.

In November he was elected President by a landslide.

Here is a summary of Pittella's biography:

2014

In 2014, he added over 100,000 votes to his 2009 result, placing him ahead of party-colleague Pina Picierno, the candidate hand-picked by Prime Minister Matteo Renzi to lead the PD list in the European Parliament's southern Italian constituency representing Sicily and the other Italian islands.

Following the 2014 elections, on 6 June 2014, he was elected with 96 percent of the votes as the President of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats, the second largest political group at the European Parliament and the only one with members from all 28 EU member states.

In addition to his committee assignments and party functions, Pittella served on the Parliament's delegation.

2016

In 2016, Pittella attended the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia to watch the nomination of Hillary Clinton.

In London, she met George Papadopoulos during the 2016 presidential campaign, whom she married in 2018.

Papadopoulos was convicted as part of Robert Mueller's Special Counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election.

2018

In the 2018 general election in Italy, Pittella was elected to the Italian Senate, having been invited to stand by Democratic Party chairman Matteo Renzi.

He subsequently resigned as leader of the S&D Group.

In 2018, Mangiante told The Guardian, "I always saw Mifsud with Pittella."

and that Pittella suggested she go to work for Mifsud in London.