Antonio Giolitti

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Antonio Giolitti

Antonio Giolitti (born February 12, 1915 in Rome , † February 8, 2010 there ) was an Italian politician.

The grandson of the liberal head of government Giovanni Giolitti passed a law exam in 1940 and joined the Communists ( PCI ) underground. In 1941 he was arrested, but later acquitted by the Tribunale Speciale per la sicurezza dello Stato for lack of evidence.

In 1946 he was elected a member of the constituent assembly. He was a member of the PCI from 1948 to 1957. He left the PCI in 1957 because of the 1956 Hungarian uprising and joined the Socialists ( Partito Socialista Italiano ), for which he was re-elected as a member of parliament between 1958 and 1976.

Giolitti was budget minister from 1963 to 1964, from 1969 to 1972 and from 1973 to 1974 in the center-left governments ( compromesso storico ) under Moro , Rumor and Emilio Colombo . Giolitti was one of the creators of the economic program. From 1977 to 1985 he was EC - Commissioner for Regional Policy .

After a dispute with Bettino Craxi , he left PSI in 1985. In 1987 he became an independent senator for the PCI- PDS . At the end of the legislative period in 1992, he withdrew from active politics to devote himself to literature. Among other things, Antonio Giolitti published Lettere a Marta (Il Mulino) in 1992 , an autobiographical work of reflection and personal notes.

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SURNAME Giolitti, Antonio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 2010
Place of death Rome