Adolfo Sarti

Adolfo Sarti

Adolfo Sarti (born June 19, 1928 in Turin , † March 3, 1992 in Rome ) was an Italian lawyer and politician of the Democrazia Cristiana (DC), who, among other things, was a member of the Chamber of Deputies ( Camera dei deputati ) and until his death for 34 years of the Senate ( Senato della Repubblica ), Justice and Defense Minister and Minister in other departments.

Life

Studies and professional career

Sarti, the son of a bank employee, first attended elementary school in Turin, the capital of Piedmont , and then moved to Cuneo in 1938 after his father was transferred to the branch of the Banco di Roma there. Between 1939 and 1946 he attended the Silvio Pellico grammar school , where Augusto Rostagni was one of his teachers, and then began studying law . Through his acquaintance with the lawyer Giovanni Campagno , the secretary of the DC in the province of Cuneo , he joined the Democrazia Cristiana as a member.

After completing his studies in 1950 he became an employee of the Cassa di Risparmio di Cuneo . He began his political career in 1954 when he was a youth representative member of the Provincial Council of the DC of the province of Cuneo, before he was nominated in 1956 as a member of the National Council of the DC.

Deputy and State Secretary

In the election of June 5, 1958, he was elected for the first time as a member of the Chamber of Deputies and represented the Collegio Unico Nazionale there until May 25, 1972 .

During the third government of Prime Minister Aldo Moro and the second government of Giovanni Leone , he was State Secretary in the Ministry of Tourism and Events from February 1966 to December 1968 . Subsequently, he was State Secretary in the Ministry of the Treasury in the first government of Prime Minister Mariano Rumor and then State Secretary in the Ministry of the Interior in the latter's second and third cabinets from August 1969 to August 1970 and held this office in the subsequent governments of Emilio Colombo and Giulio Andreotti until July 1972 .

Senator and Minister

After leaving the Chamber of Deputies, he was elected a member of the Senate, Senato della Repubblica , on May 7, 1972 , where he represented Piedmont until July 12, 1983.

In July 1973 he was appointed State Secretary in the Prime Minister's Office by Prime Minister Rumor and, as such, was also Secretary of the Council of Ministers in the fourth and fifth Cabinets of Rumor until November 1974.

Subsequently, Prime Minister Moro appointed him on November 23, 1974 as Minister for Tourism and Events ( Ministro del Turismo e dello Spettacolo ) in his fourth cabinet. He also held this ministerial office in Moro's fifth cabinet until July 28, 1976.

During the seventh legislative period from June 1976 to October 1979 he was not only a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe , but at the same time from June 1977 to June 1979 also chairman of the Parliamentary Commission for the Treaty of Osimo , which defined the borders between Italy and Yugoslavia and the Division of Trieste were established.

On August 4, 1979, Prime Minister Francesco Cossiga appointed him Minister without Portfolio ( Ministro senza Portofiglio ) for relations with Parliament in its first cabinet and then, after a cabinet reshuffle, was Minister of Defense from January 15 to April 3, 1980 ( Ministro della Difesa ). As such, he was simultaneously Chancellor and Treasurer of the Military Order of Italy ( Ordine militare d'Italia ).

In the second government of Cossiga, he was Minister for Public Education ( Ministro della Pubblica Istruzione ) between April 4, 1980 and October 17, 1980 , before Minister for Pardons and Justice ( Ministro di Grazia e Giustizia ) was in Arnaldo Forlani's government .

Vice-President of the Chamber of Deputies

After he left the Senate, he was re-elected as a member of the Camera dei deputati on July 8, 1983, where he represented the constituency of Cuneo until his death on March 3, 1992 .

At the same time he was again a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe from March 1984 to March 1992.

During the tenth legislative period he was one of the vice-presidents of the Chamber of Deputies from October 1990 until his death. At the same time, until his death on March 3, 1992, he was President of the Commission for the Monitoring of Documentation since January 1991 and President of the Parliamentary Delegation to the Conference for Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) since December 1991

Web links

Commons : Adolfo Sarti  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry (3rd legislative period) on the homepage of the Camera dei deputati
• Entry (4th legislative period) on the homepage of the Camera dei deputati
• Entry (5th legislative period) on the homepage of the Camera dei deputati
• Entry (sixth legislative period) on the Senato della Repubblica homepage
• Entry (7th legislative period) on the Senato della Repubblica homepage
• Entry (8th legislative period) on the Senato della Repubblica homepage
• Entry (9th legislative period) on the homepage of the Camera dei deputati
• Entry (Xth legislative period) on the homepage of the Camera dei deputati