During the last legislature, Emma Bonino served as Vice President of the Italian Senate. Until April 2008 she served as Minister for for International Trade and European Affairs and before she was member of the European Parliament. Since 2001, she has gone back and forth between the EU offices and Cairo since December 2001.
Why did Emma Bonino go to Yemen in 2003?
Emma Bonino had already travelled to Yemen in 2003: the legislative elections were taking place, and she told President Ali Abdullah Saleh that she was worried because the women’s participation in the campaign was significantly lower than in the 1993 campaign.
What percentage of votes did Emma Bonino get in 1999?
Emma Bonino with the U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, before their meeting in Rome. In June 1999, she obtained a historic percentage of votes (8.5%) in the European elections (vs. the usual 2–3% that Radicals got in the previous and subsequent elections).
Who is Giuseppe Bonino?
Bonino was elected to the Senate of the Republic in the constituency of Rome – Gianicolense district at the 2018 general election. Bonino was elected to the European Parliament in 1979 and re-elected in 1984 and 1999. She served as the Secretary of the Transnational Radical Party in 1993–94 and the party’s president in 1991–1993.
Emma Bonino OMRI, CdrLH (born 9 March 1948 in Bra) is an Italian politician. She is currently a Senator for Rome. She recently served as Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Did Queen Bonino of Italy have a child?
Bonino never married nor bore children, even succumbing to the Italian authorities in 1975 after having an illegal abortion. She fostered children, but never successfully became pregnant, despite attempts using artificial insemination. Bonino is a godmother of Countess Luana, elder daughter of Prince Friso and Princess Mabel of Orange-Nassau .
