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Mr Francesco VERDUCCI (Italy, SOC)

Mandates

In the political groups

  • Member: Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group since 23/01/2023
  • Member: Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group from 01/08/2017 to 03/09/2018
  • Member: Socialist Group from 27/01/2014 to 31/07/2017
  • Member: Members not belonging to a Political Group from 28/06/2013 to 26/01/2014

In the Assembly

  • since 23/01/2023 Representative - Italy
  • from 28/06/2013 to 03/09/2018 Substitute - Italy

In the committee(s) and sub-committee(s)

  • General Rapporteur on combating racism and intolerance: Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination (since 03/10/2024)
  • Full Member: Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination (since 24/04/2023)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the Rights of Minorities (since 22/06/2023)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Integration (from 27/04/2017 to 03/09/2018)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Refugee and Migrant Children and Young People (from 25/01/2017 to 03/09/2018)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Population (from 23/03/2015 to 25/01/2017)
  • Alternate of Ms Maria Teresa BERTUZZI (Full Member): Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (from 28/06/2013 to 21/11/2013)
  • Alternate of Mr Vannino CHITI (Full Member): Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons (from 28/06/2013 to 03/09/2018)

Interventions

Last speeches

26/06/2025 | 16:05:18 When women's rights advance, it is all of society that advances; when they regress, we all collectively regress. Women's empowerment is a disruptive and revolutionary force for change: it is a profound cultural transformation of a society's mentality, its way of being, and that is why it is so important and incisive. That is why it is capable of dismantling prejudices and stereotypes that are a legacy of feudal male domination, which has never been completely defeated, and which today, in the... 26/06/2025 | 10:45:28 President, these are the horrific images of lifeless bodies floating in the waters off Libya, with no one, and not the Libyan militias we fund, having recovered them. More than 500 people have died in the Mediterranean since the beginning of the year. Since 2014, that's more than 31 000. So many are girls and boys. Humanity has died countless times in European waters. I think, every time, we say the word "migrant", as if it were the same as any other when it is not. We have a duty to be aware... 25/06/2025 | 18:38:01 President, I want to thank Mr Alain FRIDEZ for his work. This report addresses a neuralgic point in any society, namely the dynamic between mobilisation, social protest, institutional power, and law enforcement. While authoritarian regimes suppress critical voices, the heart of a democracy is participation and conflict in peaceful and nonviolent forms. We have a duty not only to protect this freedom but to encourage it. Instead, many democracies today are being distorted by a creeping... 10/04/2025 | 18:31:50 Thank you, President. President, colleagues, First of all, I want to thank Speaker Antonio GUTIÉRREZ LIMONES, for wanting this resolution. And I want to thank the President of the Mexican Senate Mr Gerardo FERNÁNDEZ NOROÑA, for sealing with his presence and with important words this act, which has first of all, from my point of view, a political value. And that is what I want to emphasise here. There is a very close connection between the crisis of democracy and the crisis of multilateralism... 08/04/2025 | 11:05:18 Thank you, President. Colleagues, The first case was Brexit and we still carry the wounds of that, and since then, in every geopolitically important election, there is attempted interference by non-democratic foreign powers against the free vote of democracies. It is part of the offensive of autocratic regimes against democracies. The means are those of disinformation, manipulation, and the prevention of fact-checking to build public opinion. Part, all of this, of a hybrid war waged on the...

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