Luigi Zanda (born 28 November 1942) is an Italian politician, member of the Senate of the Republic and leader of the Democratic Party in the Senate.[1]
Zanda was born in Cagliari in 1942. After becoming a lawyer he started working for the Institute for Industrial Reconstruction (IRI). During 1970s Zanda joined the Christian Democracy (DC) and cooperated with the Ministry of Public Administration.[2] 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.[3]