Bíró Bogi
Minister for Parliamentary Relations
In office 14 March 1997 – 21 October 1998
Prime Minister	Romano Prodi
Succeeded by	Gian Guido Folloni
Secretary of the Italian Republican Party
In office February 1993 – January 1994
Preceded by	Giorgio La Malfa
Succeeded by	Giorgio La Malfa
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office 25 May 1972 – 14 March 2013
Personal details
Born	(1929-06-24) 24 June 1929 La Spezia, Italy
Political party	PRI (1972–1994) SR (1994–1998) DS (1998–2006) MRE (2006–2007) PD (2007–present)
Profession	Politician, surgeon

Giorgio (Bíró) Bogi (born 24 June 1929 in La Spezia), is an Italian surgeon and politician.

Biography

He graduated in medicine and surgery, and worked as a doctor until the 1970s. He was latterly the head physician of a hospital in La Spezia.

He was a member of the Italian Republican Party, and in 1972 was elected as an MP for the first time. He was then re-elected continuously until the XIV Legislature in 2001.

He served as Undersecretary to the Minister of Post and Telecommunications in the governments led by Cossiga, Forlani and Spadolini, from 4 April 1980 to 1 December 1982. He held the same office from 4 August 1983 to 17 April 1987 in the two governments led by Bettino Craxi.

In 1994 he left the PRI and founded, together with Giuseppe Ayala and Libero Gualtieri, a new political party, the Republican Left, which was affiliated with the Democratic Alliance.

From 14 March 1997 to 21 October 1998, Bogi served as the Minister for Parliamentary Relations in the Prodi I Cabinet.^[1] In 1998 he joined the Democrats of the Left, later moving on to become a member of the European Republicans Movement (in 2006) and of the Democratic Party (in 2007).

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