Paola Taverna

Paola Taverna
Member of the Senate of the Republic
In office
19 March 2013 – 12 October 2022
ConstituencyLazio 2
Vice-President of the Senate of the Republic
In office
18 March 2018 – 12 October 2022
Personal details
Born (1969-03-02) 2 March 1969 (age 55)
Rome, Italy

Paola Taverna (born 2 March 1969) is an Italian politician for the Five Star Movement, who has been a member of the Senate of the Republic since the 2013 Italian general election.[1] In March 2018, she was elected vice-president of the Senate.[2]

Biography

Born in Rome, Taverna lives in the Torre Maura district.[3]

Political life

In the 2013 Italian general election, Taverna was elected to the Italian Senate on the Five Star Movement party-list in Lazio.[1] Taverna was re-elected at the 2018 general election in the constituency of Rome—Tuscolano District.[4]

On 28 March 2018, Taverna was elected by her fellow senators to be the vice president of the Senate of the Republic with 105 votes.[5]

Political positions

Paola Taverna during the session no. 327 of 2014 in the Senate falsely stated that the welfare state would have been created by Benito Mussolini during his dictatorship through measures such as the severance pay and accused Matteo Renzi of wanting to dismantle it with the reforms launched by the PD.[6][7]

In February 2016, shortly before the municipal elections in Rome, she claimed the existence of an alleged plot, strangely hatched by the rival parties, to allow the victory of the candidate of the 5 Star Movement Virginia Raggi.[8][9]

Taverna has been critical of compulsory vaccinations.[10] She has also called for the minimum wage to be increased.[11]

References

  1. ^ a b "senato.it - Scheda di attività di Paola TAVERNA - XVII Legislatura". leg17.senato.it. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
  2. ^ "senato.it - Scheda di attività di Paola TAVERNA - XVIII Legislatura". senato.it. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
  3. ^ "Paola Taverna, la senatrice M5S si racconta: Così Grillo mi ha travolta". l'Espresso (in Italian). 17 April 2014. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
  4. ^ "Dipartimento per gli Affari Interni e Territoriali". elezionistorico.interno.gov.it. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
  5. ^ "Senato, voto l'ufficio presidenza: tensione tra Pd e M5s. Ai democratici un vice. Ma niente questori né segretari". Il Fatto Quotidiano (in Italian). 28 March 2018. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
  6. ^ "Taverna all'attacco: "Mussolini ha creato lo stato sociale, Renzi lo smantella"". 11 October 2014.
  7. ^ "ShowDoc".
  8. ^ "La 5 stelle Taverna: "C'è un complotto per farci vincere a Roma"". 16 February 2016.
  9. ^ "M5S, Taverna: "C'è un complotto per farci vincere a Roma"". 16 February 2016.
  10. ^ "I tavernicoli vogliono i morbillo party: è una puntata di Black Mirror scritta da Nanni Moretti".
  11. ^ "M5S, Paola Taverna: "Salario minimo orario subito"". Silenzi e Falsità (in Italian). 21 February 2020. Retrieved 14 March 2020.
Order of precedence
Preceded by
Ignazio La Russa
as Second Vice President of the Senate
 Order of precedence of Italy
Third Vice President of the Senate 		Succeeded by
Anna Rossomando
as Fourth Vice President of the Senate