Enzo Bianco

{{short description|Italian politician}} {{BLP sources|date=January 2010}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2018}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = Enzo_Bianco.jpg | name = Enzo Bianco | office = Minister of the Interior | term_start = 22 December 1999 | term_end = 10 June 2001 | prime_minister = Massimo D'Alema Giuliano Amato | predecessor = Rosa Russo Jervolino | successor = Claudio Scajola | office2 = Mayor of Catania | term_start2 = 29 July 1988 | term_end2 = 1 December 1989 | predecessor2 = Giuseppe Azzaro | successor2 = Guido Ziccone | term_start3 = 20 June 1993 | term_end3 = 22 January 2000 | predecessor3 = Angelo Lo Presti | successor3 = Umberto Scapagnini | term_start4 = 15 June 2013 | term_end4 = 18 June 2018 | predecessor4 = Raffaele Stancanelli | successor4 = Salvo Pogliese | order5 = Member of the Chamber of Deputies | term_start5 = 23 April 1992 | term_end5 = 20 June 1993 | term_start6 = 30 May 2001 | term_end6 = 28 April 2006 | order7 = Member of the Senate | term_start7 = 28 April 2006 | term_end7 = 15 March 2013 | birth_name = Vincenzo Bianco | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1951|2|24}} | birth_place = Aidone, Italy | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Lawyer | alma_mater = University of Catania | party = PRI {{small|(till 1993)}} AD {{small|(1993–1998)}} Dem {{small|(1998–2002)}} DL {{small|(2002–2007)}} PD {{small|(since 2007)}} }} '''Enzo Bianco''' (born 24 February 1951) is an Italian politician, former mayor of Catania and former Minister of the Interior.

==Early life== Bianco was born on 24 February 1951 in Aidone, province of Enna, Italy.<ref name=rulers>{{cite web|title=Bianco, Enzo|url=http://rulers.org/indexb3.html|publisher=Rulers|access-date=16 March 2013}}</ref>

==Career== Bianco has been a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1992 to 1993 with the Italian Republican Party and from 2001 to 2006 with The Olive Tree. He has then been Senator from 2006 to 2013 with the Democratic Party.

Bianco has been Minister of interior from 1999 to 2001 in the D'Alema II Cabinet and in the Amato II Cabinet.<ref name=rulers/>

He has been for a short period Mayor of Catania from 1988 to 1989 and has been re-elected in 1993, becoming the first mayor elected directly by the citizens of Catania, and in 1997, leaving the office in order to assume the charge of Minister of interior. After failing to be re-elected mayor in 2005, he manages to be re-elected in 2013, holding the charge for 5 more years. At the 2018 communal elections, he is defeated by the Forza Italia candidate Salvo Pogliese.

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==External links== {{commons-inline}} * [http://www.senato.it/leg/13/BGT/Schede/Attsen/00000262.htm Enzo Bianco] at Italian Senate, XIII Legislature * [http://www.senato.it/leg/14/BGT/Schede/Attsen/00000262.htm Enzo Bianco] at Italian Senate, XIV Legislature * [http://www.senato.it/leg/15/BGT/Schede/Attsen/00000262.htm Enzo Bianco] at Italian Senate, XV Legislature * [http://www.senato.it/leg/16/BGT/Schede/Attsen/00000262.htm Enzo Bianco] at Italian Senate, XVI Legislature * [http://www.radioradicale.it/soggetti/enzo-bianco Enzo Bianco] at Radio Radicale

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