Giovanni Spadolini

Giovanni Spadolini was a Politician Italy N (Florence, June 21st, 1921 - Rome August 4th, 1994).

Graduate in right, professor of modern history at the University of Florence, he is also journalist. He will be director of the newspaper of Bologna He Restaurant del Carlino of 1955 with 1968 and of the Corriere beyond of 1969 with 1972 Will be , which at the time had an enormous authority on the public opinion.

Layman of center-left, it is elected senator for small the Italian Republican party (PRI) in 1972, and in November 1974 it is named Minister for the Cultural Goods in the fourth government of Aldo Moro. It is the " besides; créateur" post of minister of the culture in Italy, responsibilities for the inheritance being allotted before to the minister of education main road. It will leave the ministry in January 1976, after the resignations of the fourth Moro government

Constantly read again senator, in 1979 he will be a transitory Minister for education in the fifth government of Giulio Andreotti, which will not be invested by the Italian Parliament. Elected official secretary of the Republican party in 1980, it is named president of the Council of Ministers by the president of the Republic Sandro Pertini after an interminable crisis accompanied by the scandal by the revelation by the maconnic cabin " P2" where not badly personalities were implied.

It was the first President of the Council of Ministers, of the June 28th 1981 with the November 13rd 1982, of the Italian Republic not to result from the Christian Democrat. Minister for the defense of 1983 with 1987.

He is president of the Italian Senate of 1987 with 1994. He is named senator with life in 1984 by the president of the Republic Francesco Cossiga. As a president of the senate, he was temporary chief of the state between the resignations of the president of the Republic Francesco Cossiga and the election of his successor Oscar Luigi Scalfaro.

In April 1994, it ressaie to be made read again president of the Senate, but for a voice it is beaten by Carlo Scognamiglio, a former liberal equi at the time militated in Forza Italia, the political movement of Silvio Berlusconi (then Scognamiglio transmigrated in a party of center-left).

He dies of one cancer to the stomach, whereas its party is severely touched by the operation “clean hands. ”

Gifted man of an immense and an extreme courtesy, perfectly French-speaking culture, it was unanimously respected, in Italy like abroad. He bequeathed his immense library to an institute of culture which bears its name. He is the author of 30 books and hundreds of articles for reviews of history and political sciences. ----

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