Giorgio Bogi


Giorgio Bogi, is an Italian surgeon and politician.

Biography

He graduated in medicine and surgery, and worked as a doctor until the 1970s and was the head physician of a hospital in La Spezia.
He was a member of the Italian Republican Party, and in 1972 Bogi was elected MP for the first time. He was then re-elected uninterruptedly until the XIV Legislature in 2001.
He served as Undersecretary to the Post and Telecommunications in the governments led by Cossiga, Forlani and Spadolini from 4 April 1980 to 1 December 1982. He held the same office from 4 August 1983 to 17 April 1987 in the two governments led by Bettino Craxi.
In 1994 he left the PRI and founded, together with Giuseppe Ayala and Libero Gualtieri, a new political party, the Republican Left, placed in the Democratic Alliance.
From 14 March 1997 to 21 October 1998 he served as Minister for Parliamentary Relations in the Prodi I Cabinet.
Bogi subsequently joined the Democrats of the Left, the European Republicans Movement and finally the Democratic Party.