For five legislatures, from 1948 until 1972, was elected deputy-legislator in the ranks of the Democrazia Cristiana. Jurist, magistrate, academic and politician, was Lawyer and full professor of Constitutional and Public Law in several Italian universities. He mainly took care of two important topics: Transport and Italian-African relations. He was a member of several parliamentary commissions (Justice, Transport, Infrastructures, Constitutional Affairs, Southern Italy and Foreign Affairs), and many other legislative assignments. He was undersecretary for Transport in Tambroni and Forlani governments. He fought to obtain infrastructural developments for Southern Italy, especially for Transport. Foderaro is also responsible for improving connections between Calabria and Sicily (with new ferry boats), Middle East and Africa. In 1952 he was sent by the Ministry of Education to Egypt and Lebanon for a cycle of conferences which he held in Cairo, Alexandria and Beirut, and in the following years he led two economic missions, one to West Africa (Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Ivory Coast), the other in South-East Africa and the Indian Ocean (Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, South Africa and Kenya).

President of the Italian Institute for Africa, he dedicated a very large number of essays and articles to the theme of relations between Italy and Africa.