Enzo Bianco
Italian Minister of the Interior
In office 22 December 1999 – 10 June 2001
Prime Minister	Massimo D'Alema Giuliano Amato
Preceded by	Rosa Russo Jervolino
Succeeded by	Claudio Scajola
Mayor of Catania
In office 29 July 1988 – 1 December 1989
Preceded by	Giuseppe Azzaro
Succeeded by	Guido Ziccone
In office 20 June 1993 – 22 January 2000
Preceded by	Angelo Lo Presti
Succeeded by	Umberto Scapagnini
In office 15 June 2013 – 18 June 2018
Preceded by	Raffaele Stancanelli
Succeeded by	Salvo Pogliese
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office 23 April 1992 – 20 June 1993
In office 30 May 2001 – 28 April 2006
Member of the Senate
In office 28 April 2006 – 15 March 2013
Personal details
Born	Vincenzo Bianco (1951-02-24) 24 February 1951 (age 73) Aidone, Italy
Political party	PRI (till 1993) AD (1993–1998) Dem (1998–2002) DL (2002–2007) PD (since 2007)
Alma mater	University of Catania
Occupation	Lawyer

Enzo Bianco (born 24 February 1951) is an Italian politician, former mayor of Catania and former Minister of the Interior.

Early life

Bianco was born on 24 February 1951 in Aidone, province of Enna, Italy.^[1]

Career

Bianco has been a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1992 to 1993 with the Italian Republican Party and from 2001 to 2006 with The Olive Tree. He has then been Senator from 2006 to 2013 with the Democratic Party.

Bianco has been Minister of interior from 1999 to 2001 in the D'Alema II Cabinet and in the Amato II Cabinet.^[1]

He has been for a short period Mayor of Catania from 1988 to 1989 and has been re-elected in 1993, becoming the first mayor elected directly by the citizens of Catania, and in 1997, leaving the office in order to assume the charge of Minister of interior. After failing to be re-elected mayor in 2005, he manages to be re-elected in 2013, holding the charge for 5 more years. At the 2018 communal elections, he is defeated by the Forza Italia candidate Salvo Pogliese.