{{Short description|Italian politician (born 1975)}} {{Multiple issues| {{Expand Italian|topic=bio|date=March 2020}} {{BLP sources|date=July 2017}} }} {{Use dmy dates|date = March 2020}} {{Use British English|date = March 2020}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Licia Ronzulli | honorific_suffix = | image = Licia Ronzulli datisenato 2018.jpg | office = Member of the Senate of the Republic | term_start = 23 March 2018 | term_end = | constituency = Lombardy | office1 = Member of the European Parliament | term_start1 = 14 July 2009 | term_end1 = 30 June 2014 | constituency1 = North-West Italy | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1975|9|14|df=y}} | birth_place = Milan, Italy | death_date = | death_place = | spouse = Renato Cerioli | relations = | children = 1 | alma_mater = | occupation = Politician, nurse, health manager | party = FI (since 2013) | website = [http://www.liciaronzulli.it/ liciaronzulli.it] | other_party = FI (2008–2009)<br>PdL (2009–2013) }} '''Licia Ronzulli''' (born 14 September 1975) is an Italian politician and a former MEP who represented The People of Freedom party and New Forza Italia party between 2009 and 2014.<ref>[http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/96819/LICIA_RONZULLI_home.html Licia Ronzulli's history of parliamentary service] on the homepage of the European Parliament (accessed on 5 February 2017)</ref> She won a seat in the 2009 European Parliament election. She was Vice Chair of the Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly and a member of the Employment and Social Affairs committee.<ref name="europal">{{cite web |url=http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/96819/Licia_RONZULLI.html |title=Licia RONZULLI |publisher=European Parliament |accessdate=17 February 2012}}</ref>
Ronzulli is known for being the logistic organiser of Silvio Berlusconi's parties, known in the press as Bunga bunga parties.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.corriere.it/politica/11_novembre_12/orfanelle-cavaliere-roncone_79c1597c-0cfa-11e1-a42a-1562b6741916.shtml | title=Le "orfanelle" del Cavaliere "Cambiare partito? Mai" }}</ref> During her tenure as MEP, she took her daughter, Vittoria, to the European Parliament plenary sessions in Strasbourg. Prior to becoming an MEP, she was a nurse in Milan.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.tag43.it/licia-ronzulli-badante-silvio-berlusconi-ministra-salute/ | title=Licia Ronzulli, la badante di Berlusconi ed ex infermiera che sogna da ministra | date=5 October 2022 }}</ref>
==Biography== Born in Milan the daughter of a ''carabiniere'' of Apulian origins,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Bolloli |first=Brunella |date=19 October 2022 |title=Riscatto Ronzulli: è capogruppo |pages=5 |work=Libero}}</ref> Ronzulli began her career working as a nurse in a hospital.<ref name=":0">{{cite web | url=https://www.liciaronzulli.com/chi-sono | title=Chi Sono }}</ref> In 2003, she became nurses’ coordinator at the ''IRCCS Galeazzi'' hospital of Milan, in Italy.<ref name=":0" /> Since 2005 she has been a volunteer of the non-profit organization Progetto Sorriso Nel Mondo, with which she travels to Bangladesh every year together with a surgical team specialized in the care of malformed children.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2011-12-29 |title=Progetto Sorriso nel Mondo - Onlus |url=http://www.progettosorrisonelmondo.org/welcome.lasso |access-date=2022-12-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111229111538/http://www.progettosorrisonelmondo.org/welcome.lasso |archive-date=29 December 2011 }}</ref>
From 29 April 2015 to 13 January 2017, she was a member of the Board of Directors of Fiera di Milano SpA, as Vice President and Independent Director.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Una infermiera alla vicepresidenza della Fiera di Milano |url=https://www.fondazioneveronesi.it/magazine/i-blog-della-fondazione/il-blog-di-alberto-scanni/una-infermiera-alla-vicepresidenza-della-fiera-di-milano |access-date=2022-12-12 |website=Fondazione Umberto Veronesi |language=it}}</ref>
During the 2008 Italian general election, she was nominated for The People of Freedom party in the district of Marche. When she was a candidate in the 2009 European elections, Licia Ronzulli was elected in the northwest of Italy with 40,016 votes. She joined the European People Party and became a member of the commission for ''Employment and Social Affairs'' and member of the ''Delegation for Relations with South Asia'', as well as a substitute member of the Commission of ''Women Rights and Gender Equality'' and the Subcommittee on Human Rights. On 16 September 2009 she was elected Vice-Chairman of the ''Parliamentary Joint Africa-Caribbean-Pacific-UE Assembly,'' which has the express purpose of promoting human rights and democracy. She has also been involved with Progetto Sorriso nel Mondo (Smile Project in the World) as a volunteer.<ref name="liciaronzulli">{{cite web |url=http://www.liciaronzulli.it/?page_id=12 |title=CHI SONO |publisher=liciaronzullia.it |accessdate=25 May 2012 |archive-date=4 August 2012 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120804201052/http://www.liciaronzulli.it/?page_id=12 |url-status=dead }}</ref> So far, Licia Ronzulli has presented over a hundred questions to the European Commission dealing with themes such as combating the spread of serious diseases in the European Union.
In the 2018 Italian general election, Ronzulli was elected to the Senate of the Republic, representing the constituency of Cantù.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Passarin |first=Sara Greta |date=2022-08-03 |title=Licia Ronzulli, biografia e curriculum della senatrice di Forza Italia |url=https://www.true-news.it/facts/chi-e-licia-ronzulli |access-date=2022-08-05 |website=True News. |language=it-IT}}</ref>
== Personal life == Ronzulli has a daughter, Vittoria, born in Milan on August 10, 2010 from the union with Renato Cerioli, manager and president of Confindustria Monza and Brianza.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Palazzo |first=Silvana |date=2019-12-22 |title=Renato Cerioli, ex marito Licia Ronzulli/ La crisi matrimoniale e la separazione |url=https://www.ilsussidiario.net/news/renato-cerioli-ex-marito-licia-ronzulli-la-crisi-matrimoniale-e-la-separazione/1963147/ |access-date=2022-12-12 |website=IlSussidiario.net |language=it}}</ref> Two years later the couple separated.<ref name=":1" /> On 22 September 2010, Ronzulli took her 44-day-old daughter, Vittoria, to a plenary session of the European Parliament.<ref>{{cite news |last=Rettman |first=Andrew |date=September 24, 2010 |title=It was maternal, not political, says Italian MEP who took her baby to work |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/sep/24/licia-ronzulli-baby-parliament}}</ref>
The French magazine ''Madame le Figaro'' placed her in 3rd place on its list of most influential women of 2010.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2014-06-26 |title=Blog {{!}} Maroni e Licia Ronzulli, l'ultima delle precarie |url=http://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2014/06/26/maroni-e-licia-ronzulli-lultima-delle-precarie/1040832/ |access-date=2022-12-12 |website=Il Fatto Quotidiano |language=it-IT}}</ref>
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==External links== {{Commons category}} * [http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/96819/Licia_RONZULLI.html Page on the site of Europarliament]
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