Vito Bonsignore
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Vito Bonsignore (born 3 July 1943 in Bronte, Catania, Sicily) is an Italian politician.
Bonsignore graduated in economics and commerce in Messina. He was manager of the Turin-Alessandria-Piacenza (SATAP) motorway company, where he gradually held increasingly important roles, until becoming technical director and general manager. He was also Director of the Italian Mobiliar Institute (IMI) and INSUD S.p.A.
He has been member of the central direction of the Christian Democracy, from 1970 to 1980, was municipal councilor of Venaria Reale, MP in the Chamber of Deputies from 1987 to 1994, and Undersecretary of the Budget (from 1992 to 1993) in the Giuliano Amato government.
He was also elected MEP twice, the first time in 2004 on the UDC list (in the North-West constituency), the second time in 2009 on The People of Freedom's list, receiving over 53,000 personal preferences. He was a member of the European People's Party group of which he was vice-president. He sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Budgetary Control and its Committee on Budgets. He was also a vice-chair of the Delegation for relations with the United States and a substitute for the Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.
On 16 November 2013 he joined the New Centre-Right led by Angelino Alfano.
