Vittoria Baldino

Baldino was born in 1988 in Rossano, in the Southern Italy region of Calabria.^[1] She graduated in law from the Sapienza University of Rome with a thesis on finance science. Since 2016, she has been practicing in Rome as a lawyer specialized in administrative and urban planning law. In the 2018 general election on 5 March, she was elected to the Italian Parliament to represent the district of Lazio for the Five Star Movement.^[2] She was subsequently replaced by Angela Salafia (it) but was subsequently reinstated in a different Lazio district.^[3]

In the 2022 Italian general election on 25 September, she was narrowly defeated in the first-past-the-post constituency of Calabria 1 with 35.25% of the vote compared to the 38.12% of the centre-right coalition candidate. She was elected through proportional representation in the same constituency.^[4]