 In the 2001 general election she was elected for the third time to the Chamber of Deputies in the college of Cortona representing Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy.After the victory of The Union in the 2006 Italian general election, she became Minister for the Family, serving in that post until 2008.Bindi competed for the leadership of the Democratic Party in the party's founding leadership election, and received 12.93% of the vote cast.