Annagrazia Calabria is an Italian

Italy

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 politician, member of the Italian Parliament for the People of Freedom party of Silvio Berlusconi

Silvio Berlusconi

Silvio Berlusconi , also known as Il Cavaliere – from knighthood to the Order of Merit for Labour which he received in 1977 – is an Italian politician and businessman who served three terms as Prime Minister of Italy, from 1994 to 1995, 2001 to 2006, and 2008 to 2011. Berlusconi is also the...

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She is also an American citizen, daughter of the Finance Director of Finmeccanica

Finmeccanica

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, Luigi Calabria, and niece of the European Head of M&A of Merrill Lynch

Merrill Lynch

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, Carlo Calabria.
Her mother, Cynthia Alfonsi, is regional coordinator of the women's organisation of Forza Italia

Forza Italia

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 since the 1990s, and Annagrazia was raised in the party's miniclub in Rome.

After studying law, she was intern at Allen & Overy

Allen & Overy

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 law firm in Rome.

She is Secretary of Scientific Committee of Italy-USA Foundation

Italy-USA Foundation

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She is member of the People of Freedom party. Thanks to the election of Gianni Alemanno as mayor of Rome in 2008, she took his place in the Parliament at the age of 26, becoming the youngest Italian MP.

Since 2010 she is, along with Giorgia Meloni

Giorgia Meloni

-Biography:Giorgia Meloni was born on January 15, 1977 in Rome, Italy. in 1996, she graduated from the Amerigo Vespucci Institute in Foreign Languages...

, coordinator of the youth branch of the People of Freedom. She has been criticised for her complete lack of political experience in party politics and local administration, and her critics have pointed out that she may have been chosen for her good-look and faithfulness to Berlusconi.