Salvatore Caronna

Salvatore Caronna (born 5 March 1964, in Bad Säckingen) is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP).

In 1986, he assumed the post of secretary of the Communist Youth Federation of Bologna (where he had studied).

In December 1999, on the day of the defeat of the center-left in Bologna, he was elected secretary of the Democrats of the Left, a position that he held until the end of June 2006.

He was first elected to the Consiglio Communale in Bologna, and served as regional adviser of Emilia-Romagna from 2005 to 2009.

Caronna renewed his candidacy in the 2014 European Parliament election but did not obtain a new post.