Simona Bonafé
MEP
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
Assumed office
13 October 2022
ConstituencyTuscany
In office
15 March 2013 – 25 June 2014
ConstituencyLombardy 2
Member of the European Parliament
for Central Italy
In office
25 May 2014 – 12 October 2022
Succeeded byBeatrice Covassi
Personal details
Born (1973-06-24) 24 June 1973
Varese, Italy
Political partyDL (2002–2007)
PD (since 2007)

Simona Bonafé[1] (born 24 June 1973) is an Italian politician and journalist who is serving as a member of the country's Chamber of Deputies.

Career

Born in Varese, Bonafé started her political activity in 2002 with The Daisy party.[2] In 2004 she was appointed Councillor for the Environment in Scandicci, a role she held until 2013.[2] From 2007, she also worked as a journalist for the newspapers Corriere di Firenze and Europa.[2]

Bonafé was elected to the Italian parliament in 2013 with the Democratic Party, and in 2014 she was elected Member of the European Parliament (MEP) with the same party collecting over 288,000 preferences.[2] A member of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats group, she has since been serving on the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. In this capacity, she was the parliament's rapporteur on the EU Circular Economy Package and represented the Parliament at the 2016 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Marrakesh.[3]

In addition to her committee assignments, Bonafé was a member of the parliament's delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China. She also serves as vice-chairwoman of the European Parliament Intergroup on Long Term Investment and Reindustrialisation[4] and as member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Anti-Racism and Diversity,[5] the European Parliament Intergroup on Integrity (Transparency, Anti-Corruption and Organized Crime)[6] and the European Parliament Intergroup on Children’s Rights.[7]

Following the resignation of Roberto Gualtieri to return to national politics in late 2019, Bonafé was elected vice-chair of the S&D Group, under the leadership of chairwoman Iratxe García. She was elected back to the Italian parliament in 2022.[8]

References

  1. ↑ "Bonafé". Dizionario italiano multimediale d'Ortografia e di Pronunzia. Retrieved 31 January 2019.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Andrea Signorelli (27 May 2014). "Chi è Simona Bonafè, la donna dei record del Pd". Yahoo Notizie. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
  3. ↑ MEPs to participate in COP22 climate change conference in Marrakesh European Parliament, press release of November 11, 2016.
  4. ↑ Members European Parliament Intergroup on Long Term Investment and Reindustrialisation.
  5. ↑ Intergroup on Anti-Racism and Diversity European Parliament.
  6. ↑ Members of the European Parliament on Integrity (Transparency, Anti-Corruption and Organized Crime) European Parliament.
  7. ↑ Members of the European Parliament Intergroup on Children’s Rights European Parliament.
  8. ↑ "Tutti i deputati eletti al proporzionale" [All deputies are elected proportionally]. La Repubblica (in Italian). 26 September 2022.
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