Senator For Life (1976-2001)
From 1976 to 1987 Taviani was elected senator of the Italian Republic in Liguria. From 1979 he was President of the Senate’s Foreign Affairs Committee. In 1991 he was appointed “Senator for Life” for “social, literary and scholarly merit”. After the dissolution of the Christian Democratic Party Taviani became a member of the new Partito Popolare (in the Centre-Left coalition). In one of his final interviews he expressed the hope that the PPI would join the European social democratic group.
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