Vito Bonsignore

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Vito Bonsignore (born on 3 July 1943 in Bronte, Sicily) is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for North-West with the Cristiani Democratici Uniti, part of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Budgetary Control and its Committee on Budgets.

He is also a vice-chair of the Delegation for relations with the United States and a substitute for the Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.

He has been convicted and sentenced to 2 years for attempted corruption in the construction of a hospital in Asti.

[edit] Education

• Graduate in business studies
• Technical Director and General Director of the Turin-Alessandria-Piacenza motorway company
• Former member of the DC Central Directorate
• Member of the National Executive of the UDC

[edit] Career

• 1970-1980: Town councillor of Venaria Reale (TO)
• 1987-1994: Member of the Chamber of Deputies of Italy
• 1992-1993: Under-Secretary for the Budget

See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Italy)

[edit] External links

• European Parliament biography of Vito Bonsignore (incl. Speeches, Questions and Motions)
• Declaration of financial interests (in Italian; PDF)