Name Remo Sernagiotto | Role Italian Politician | |
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Remo Sernagiotto (born 1 September 1955 in Montebelluna) is an Italian politician from Veneto.
A long-time Christian Democrat, he was first elected to the Regional Council of Veneto in 2000 for Forza Italia. In 2005 he and became floor leader of his party, often being a vocal critic of President Giancarlo Galan. Re-elected for The People of Freedom in 2010, he was appointed regional minister of Social Affairs in Zaia I Government.
In the 2014 European Parliament election Sernagiotto was elected member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the newly organised Forza Italia and subsequently resigned from regional minister. In July 2015 he left Forza Italia and the European People's Party, along with fellow MEP Raffaele Fitto, in order to join the European Conservatives and Reformists Group under the newly formed Italian Conservatives and Reformists party.
