Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati
Maria Elisabetta was elected as a member of the Italian Senate for the first time in 1994 with the Party Forza Italia in Veneto. Since January 2014, she has been the national group leader of Forza Italia for the Senate.
Elisabetta was born in Rovigo in 1946. She took a degree in Law at the Pontificia Università Lateranense and became a researcher at the University of Pavia. Then she became a member of Berlusconi's Party and has dealt just with politics.
Political career
She was a member of Forza Italia since 1993 to 2009, when the Party changed name in Il Popolo della Libertà. In 2013 the name of the Party changed again to Forza Italia.
Roles
State Secretary of the Ministry of Justice: May 2008-November 2011 State Secretary of the Ministry of Health: December 2004-April 2005 State Secretary of the Ministry of Health: April 2005-May 2006 Secretary of the Senate: March 2013-in office 1ª Standing Committee (Constitutional Affairs): May 2013-March 2014 2ª Standing Committee (Justice): March 2014 Parliamentary Committee for proceedings prosecution: July 2013
