Pinotti, Roberta

Specialist in contemporary literature, teacher of Italian at the Lyceum. Engaged in politics in the 1990s, becoming a member of the self-government of the Genoese region of from the Communist Party . In 1993-1997 she was in charge of school education, youth and social policy in the province of Genoa , in 1997-1999 - in school education in Genoa . In 1999-2001, she was the secretary of the Genoese provincial organization of the Left Democrats ^[1] .

In 2001, she was elected to the Chamber of Deputies of the XIVth convocation according to the list of Paese Nuovo ("New Country") and was a member of the Left Democrats - Olive Tree fraction ^[2] , in 2006 she was re-elected according to the list of Olive Tree, she was a member of the fraction The Democratic Party - The Olive Tree, and from June 6, 2006 to April 28, 2008, headed the Defense Commission of the Chamber of Deputies ^[3] , becoming the first woman in this position in Italian history.

In the Democratic Party, she was responsible at the national level for security issues, was the shadow secretary of defense, and then headed the Department of Defense.

In 2007-2008, as a member of the Chamber of Deputies and a shadow secretary of defense, she advocated Italy's accession to the 1980 Geneva Convention on the Limitation and Prohibition of the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons ( Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects ), which prohibits the use of cluster munitions ^[4] .

She was awarded the French Order of the Legion of Honor (the award was presented at the French Embassy) ^[5] .

Senator

In 2008, she was elected from the Liguria to the Senate of the 16th convocation, from May 22, 2008 she was a member of the Permanent Senate Defense Commission, and from October 13, 2010 to March 14, 2013 she was deputy chairman of this Commission ^[6] . In 2013, she was elected to the Senate of the 17th convocation, from May 7, 2013 she is a member of the Defense Commission (on May 28, 2013 she was replaced in the Commission by , from May 29, 2013 - ) ^{[7 ]} .

In 2012, she took part in the primaries of the center-left organizations, organized to identify a single candidate for the mayor of Genoa, and received 23.6% of the vote, losing to (46%) and (27.5%) ^[8] .

At the Italian Ministry of Defense

On May 3, 2013, she became junior state secretary (Sottosegretario di Stato) of the Ministry of Defense in the government of Enrico Letta ^[9] .

On February 22, 2014, she took the oath as Minister of Defense in the Renzi government. ^[10]

On May 4, 2014, in an interview with la Repubblica newspaper, Pinotti said in response to a question about how to resolve the situation arising from the protests in the South-East of Ukraine , that one cannot just observe the conflict, but also added that Italy, together with Germany, seeks to avoid it escalation due to sanctions against Russia . In addition, she announced Italy’s readiness to send a peacekeeping contingent to the region, but not independently, but in the framework of cooperation with the UN , NATO and the European Union ^[11] .

On June 24, 2014, presenting the “Long-term Program Document 2014-2016” ( Documento Programmatico Pluriennale 2014-2016 ) in the Senate before the Senate and Chamber of Deputies Defense Commissions, Pinotti announced the suspension of the procurement program for the fifth-generation F-35 fighter ^{[12] [13 ] ]} .

On September 1, 2014, Pinotti arrived in India with the intention of visiting two Italian troops who live in the Italian Embassy, ​​awaiting trial in the case of the Enrica Lexie tanker incident . ^[14]

On December 11, 2014, at a joint press conference between Pinotti and the US ambassador to Italy, John Phillips, it was announced that a company will be operating in Cameri ( Piedmont ) based on Finmeccanica's Alenia Aermacchi factory to service, repair and modernize F-35 fighter jets armed with European States ^[15] .

On May 28, 2015, Pinotti submitted to the Parliament an arms procurement program until 2020, which again provided for the acquisition of F-35 (in number of four), as well as an increase in the total number of aircraft purchased from 34 in the plans of the Monti government to 38, which in light of the announced budget plan economies aroused criticism ^[16] .

On May 9, 2016, Pinotti, accompanied by the chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Italy, arrived in Iraq and announced the operation began in late April to deploy the Italian contingent in Mosul , the number of which should reach 100 by the end of May, and 450 by the fall of 2016. the task is to protect the dam on the Tigris River during the repair work, which is likely to last from 12 to 18 months. According to Pinotti, at the time of the visit to Baghdad, Erbil and Kuwait , a total of 800 Italian troops were deployed, and by autumn this figure is planned to be increased to 1300. These facts make the Italian military contingent the second largest after the US in the US-led coalition against the Islamic State ^{[ 17]} .

In August 2016, it became known that, in agreement with the government of Faiz Saraj , instructors from the , from the operational group of the command of the underwater operations and combat swimmers ( Comsubin ), and the counterterrorism special operations group ( Gruppo ) operate in Libya di intervento speciale ) Air Force Carabinieri and Special Forces . They have been given the task of carrying out reconnaissance, as well as training the armed forces, subordinate to the internationally recognized government of Libya, during the civil war , including against militants of the Islamic state ^[18] .

On December 12, 2016, she again received the portfolio of the Minister of Defense - in the Gentiloni government formed after the resignation of Matteo Renzi ^[19] .

On March 4, 2018, she was defeated in the next parliamentary election in the constituency of Genoa , remaining with a result of 26.72% in third place ^[20] . Nevertheless, according to the lists , she was again elected to the Senate, but not from Liguria, but from Piedmont .

Roberta Pinotti is the daughter of an Enel worker, a convinced communist (Roberta herself joined the IKP in 1989), and the cook of a family trattoria. A practicing Catholic, married to Gianni Orengo, has daughters Maria and Elena, who were 13 and 21 years old in February 2014, respectively ^[21] .

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