Political Career
He graduated in jurisprudence, and did his military service in the Carabinieri. His political experience began in 1969, when he joined the Christian Democratic Party (Democrazia Cristiana).
His first elected position was as a city councillor in Modena, followed by being a Christian Democrat member in the Regional Council of the Emilia Romagna. In 1992 he was elected as a member of the Chamber of Deputies (Camera dei Deputati) and in the successive legislature on the Christian Democrat list. Subsequently he became an exponent (and founder) of the Christian Democratic Centre (Centro Cristiano Democratico).
He has been president of the parliamentary group of the Christian Democratic Centre and vice president of the Chamber of Deputies.
In the 2001 Italian elections he was elected Deputy representing Lecco for Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right coalition "House of Freedoms" (Casa delle Libertà ), as part of the Union of Christian and Centre Democrats (Unione dei Democratici Cristiani e Democratici di Centro).
From June 11, 2001 until May 2006, he was Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, in Berlusconi's second and third governments.
In the 2006 Italian general election he became Deputy representing the Veneto-2 constituency. He is President of the Committee for the Authorizations and President of the Parliamentary Committee for accusation procedures. He is also member of the Institutional Transactions Commission of the Chamber of Deputies.
Carlo Giovanardi and Emerenzio Barbieri are the leaders of one of the four factions in the Union of Christian and Centre Democrats, who want closer ties with Forza Italia and the other parties of the House of Freedoms coalition, including the Lega Nord. In the III National Congress the candidacy of Giovanardi for the leadership was supported by the 13.8% of delegates.
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