Luigi Zanda
Luigi Zanda is an Italian politician, member of the Italian Senate and leader of the Democratic Party in the Senate.Political career
Luigi Zands was born in Cagliari in 1942. After becoming a lawyer he started working for the Institute for Industrial Reconstruction. During 1970s Zanda joined the Christian Democracy and cooperated with the Ministry of Public Administration. Then he became the spokesperson of the Christian democratic leader Francesco Cossiga.
In 2003 Zanda was elected at the Italian Senate for The Daisy, a centrist party, heir of the DC left-wing. In 2007 he was among the founding fathers of the centre-left Democratic Party. On 19 March 2013, after the February's general election, he was elected by acclamation PD leader in the Senate.
