Luciana Lamorgese | |
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| Minister of the Interior | |
| In office 5 September 2019 – 22 October 2022 | |
| Prime Minister | |
| Preceded by | Matteo Salvini |
| Succeeded by | Matteo Piantedosi |
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| Born | (1953-09-11)11 September 1953 (age 71) Potenza,Italy |
| Political party | Independent |
| Alma mater | University of Naples Federico II |
| Profession | Prefect, state councillor |
Luciana Lamorgese (born 11 September 1953) is an Italiancivil servant andprefect who served asMinister of the Interior in the governments ofPrime MinistersGiuseppe Conte andMario Draghi from 2019 to 2022.
Born inPotenza on 11 September 1953, Lamorgese graduated in law and qualified as a lawyer. In 1979, she began working for theMinistry of the Interior, becoming a vice prefect in 1994 and a prefect in 2003. She was prefect ofVenice from 2010 to 2013, working alongsideGiorgio Orsoni, the elected mayor.[1]
In 2017, with the end of theRenzi government, Lamorgese became prefect in Milan, replacing Alessandro Maragoni in the post. On 13 November 2018 she was appointed as astate councillor by the Council of Ministers chaired byGiuseppe Conte, who was forming hisfirst government.[1]
In September 2019, with the collapse of Conte's and M5S's government alliance withMatteo Salvini, a new coalition was formed between the M5S and the centre-leftDemocratic Party andFree and Equal. She was picked as Minister of the Interior in thenew government led again by Conte, and took office on 5 September.[2]
Lamorgese has been in charge of thenationwide lockdown in response to theCOVID-19 pandemic.[3] On 7 December 2020 she tested positive for the disease herself.[4]
On 12 February 2021, Lamorgese was re-appointed Minister of the Interior in the Draghi Cabinet.[5] Shortly after taking office in September 2019, Lamorgese agreed with her counterparts from France, Germany, Malta, and Finland, which held the rotatingpresidency of the Council of the European Union at the time, on redistributing migrants on aid ships to someEU member states immediately following their rescue.[6]
Under Lamorgese's leadership, the government approved a 2021 bill to tackle gender-based violence and strengthen surveillance on suspects, authorizing police to take action against suspects even if the victim herself does not report the offence – a move aimed at helping women who are afraid of filing formal accusations.[7]
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