Since 2000, she has presented and written eight editions of Sportello Italia, a service television program broadcast worldwide by
Rai International where, in 2015, she presented the program
Cara Francesca.
Election to Senator In the
2018 general elections she was elected to the
Senate of the Republic, in the
foreign constituency (
North America and Central America) as a member of
Forza Italia in the center-right unitary list "Salvini-Berlusconi-Meloni", by virtue of 10,994 personal preferences. On October 4, 2019, she donated to the Historical Archive of the
Senate "his collection of writings in the form of memoirs, diaries and stories (...) received from Italians abroad on all continents in twenty years of activity in this field". In December 2019 she was among the 64 signatories (of which 41 from Forza Italia) of the confirmation referendum on the reduction of parliamentarians: a few months earlier, Berlusconi's senators had left the room during the vote on the constitutional reform. == References ==