Eugenio Duca

During the 1970s, Duca was active in a railway workers' union and served on the Permanent Maritime Commission of the Camera di Commercio, Industria, Agricoltura e Artigianato from 1978 to 1983.^[2] He served as a city councilor in Ancona from 1983 to 1997.^[2] He was elected to represent Marche in the Chamber of Deputies in 1994 and joined the coalition Alliance of Progressives.^[3] He was re-elected in 1996^[4] and 2001 as part of the coalition The Olive Tree.^[5] He served as national leader of the Democrats of the Left in the maritime economic sector until 2007.^[2]

In 2009 [it], Duca ran for mayor of Ancona, but earned only 5.9% of the vote.^[6]

Eugenio Duca died of a heart attack in Ancona on 5 October 2021, at the age of 71.^[7]