Elettra Pollastrini

Elettra Pollastrini (15 July 1908 – 2 February 1990) was an Italian politician. She was elected to the Constituent Assembly in 1946 as one of the first group of women parliamentarians in Italy.

Biography Pollastrini was born in Rieti in 1908. Her family moved to La Spezia, where she completed school. Opposed to Benito Mussolini's fascist government, her family relocated to France during the 1920s, where she worked for Renault. She was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in the 1948 elections and re-elected in 1953, serving in parliament until the 1958 elections, after which she moved to Budapest to work for Magyar Rádió. She later returned to Rieti, where she died in 1990. A street in the city was named after her.