Cesare Salvi


Cesare Salvi is an Italian politician who served as Minister of labor and social security.

Early life

Salvi was born in Lecce on 9 June 1948.

Career

Salvi was the spokesperson for the secretary of DS. He was a senator from 1992 to 2008. He was also head of the DS senators.
He served as the relatore for one of the four sub-committees dealing the future form of the Italian governments under the joint constitutional committee launched during the period of 1997-98. He was appointed labor minister to the cabinet headed by then prime minister Giuliano Amato in June 2000. Salvi replaced Antonio Bassolino as labor minister. He was in office until 2001.
Then he served as the head of the judiciary committee at the 14th senate of Italy from 30 May 2001 to 27 April 2006. He became the leader of the DS's left wing, ‘Sinistra per il Socialismo’ in the mid-2000s.

Books

Salvi is the author of the following books: Il contenuto del diritto di proprietà. Artt. 832-833, La rosa rossa: Il futuro della sinistra and
La responsabilità civile. He also published a book about cronyism in 2005, The Cost of Democracy.