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Sonia Gandhi (; born Edvige Antonia Albina Màino,〔(Sonia Gandhi ). Britannica. Retrieved on 9 December 2011.〕〔 9 December 1946) is an Italian-born Indian politician, who has served as President of the Indian National Congress party since 1998.〔 She is the widow of former Prime Minister of India, Rajiv Gandhi who belonged to the Nehru–Gandhi family. After her husband's assassination in 1991, she was invited by Congress leaders to take over the government but she refused and publicly stayed away from politics amidst constant prodding from the party. She finally agreed to join politics in 1997; in 1998, she was elected President of the Congress party.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sonia Gandhi Biography )〕 She has served as the Chairperson of the ruling United Progressive Alliance in the Lok Sabha since 2004. In September 2010, on being re-elected for the fourth time, she became the longest serving president in the 125-year history of the Congress party. Her foreign birth has been a subject of much debate and controversy.〔 Also controversial was her alleged friendship with Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi, accused of being a middleman in the Bofors scandal. Although Sonia is the fifth foreign-born person to be leader of the Congress Party, she is the first since independence in 1947. ==Early life== She was born to Stefano and Paola Maino in Contrada Màini ("Maini quarter/district"), at Lusiana,〔(Pictures from the book-biography "The Red sari" by Javier Moro ). Radiopopolare.it. Retrieved on 9 December 2011.〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Edvige Antonia Albina Maino )〕 a little village 30 km from Vicenza in Veneto,〔(Sonia Gandhi, dalla piccola Lusiana all'India ecco il romanzo di una donna speciale ) Il Giornale de Vicenza. 5 Oct 2009〕 Italy, where families with the family name "Màino" have been living for many generations.〔(Maini ) Lusiana.〕〔(Sonia Gandy ). Il Giornale di Vicenza. 2004 (with picture of her native house)〕〔(Lusiana: parish church, townhall square, landscape ). Youreporter.it. Retrieved on 9 December 2011.〕 She spent her adolescence in Orbassano,〔http://www.scribd.com/doc/32475652/The-Red-Sari. Sonia Maino Gandhi from Lusiana to Orbassano, pages 22–27.〕 a town near Turin, being raised in a traditional Roman Catholic family and attending a Catholic school. Her father, Stefano Maino, was a building mason, who owned a small construction business in Orbassano.〔(Meeting Mr Maino ). Retrieved 19 July 2013.〕 Stefano fought against the Soviet military alongside Hitler's Wehrmacht on the eastern front in World War II, he called himself a loyal supporter of Benito Mussolini and Italy's National Fascist Party.〔 He died in 1983.〔(In Maino land ). Retrieved 23 March 2007. 〕 Her mother and two sisters still live around Orbassano.〔(Italy heralds 'first woman PM' ). BBC. 14 May 2004. Retrieved 18 July 2007.〕 In 1964, she went to study English at the Bell Educational Trust's language school in the city of Cambridge. In 1965 at a Greek restaurant (the Varsity Restaurant in Cambridge) she met Rajiv Gandhi, who was enrolled in Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. In this context, the ''Times'', London reported, ''"Mrs Gandhi was an 18-year-old student at a small language college in Cambridge in 1965, making ends meet by working as a waitress in the Varsity restaurant, when she met a handsome young engineering student."'' Sonia and Rajiv Gandhi married in 1968, in a Hindu ceremony following which she moved into the house of her mother-in-law and then Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi. The couple had two children, Rahul Gandhi (born 1970) and Priyanka Vadra (born 1972). Despite belonging to the influential Nehru family, Sonia and Rajiv avoided all involvement in politics. Rajiv worked as an airline pilot while Sonia took care of her family.〔(BREAKING THE SILENCE ) Retrieved 20 July 2007.〕 When Indira Gandhi was ousted from office in 1977 in the aftermath of the Indian Emergency, the Rajiv family contemplated to move abroad for a short time. When Rajiv entered politics in 1982 after the death of his younger brother Sanjay Gandhi in a plane crash on 23 June 1980, Sonia continued to focus on her family and avoided all contact with the public. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sonia Gandhi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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