Livia Turco

Livia Turco (born 13 February 1955) is an Italian politician.

A member of the Democratic Party, she was elected to the Senate of the Republic in 2006.

Turco came from a working-class background in Morozzo, Cuneo, and studied in Cuneo and Turin, where she began her political career with the Italian Communist Party, becoming a deputy in 1987.

From May 1996 to June 2001, she was Minister of Social Affairs (Solidarietà Sociale) in the Olive Tree-led governments by Romano Prodi, Massimo D'Alema, and Giuliano Amato.

Following the fall of Prodi's government, she was elected a deputy in April 2008 as a member of the centre-left Democratic Party, and ended her political career in 2013, not seeking re-election.