Ciriaco De Mita

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Ciriaco De Mita (2010)

Luigi Ciriaco De Mita (born February 2, 1928 in Nusco , Avellino Province ) is an Italian politician. As the national secretary (i.e. chairman) of Democrazia Cristiana (DC), he was Italian prime minister from April 1988 to May 1989, one of the last of his party before its decline and split. He also held a variety of other government offices. He was a member of the European Parliament from 1984 to 1988, from 1999 to 2004 and again from 2009 to 2014 . Since 2014 he has been the mayor of his home municipality Nusco in Campania .

Life

De Mita as MP in 1983

Ciriaco De Mita graduated from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan with a law degree . He then worked as a legal advisor for the Eni oil company .

On the political stage he first appeared in 1956 when he was elected to the national council (roughly equivalent to the party executive ) of the Democrazia Cristiana . From 1963 he was a member of the House of Representatives, to which he was a member until 1994. From 1969 to 1973 he was Vice Secretary of the DC (corresponds to a Vice Chairman). In the 1970s he held various ministerial offices in DC-led governments: 1973–74 he was Minister of Industry, 1974–76 Minister for Foreign Trade, 1976–79 for the Mezzogiorno .

De Mita (2nd from left) at the G7 summit in Toronto in 1988

From 1982 to 1989 De Mita was the national secretary (the top political office) of the DC and was considered a representative of the left wing of the party. In the European elections in 1984 he was elected to the European Parliament , of which he was a member until 1988. That year he became Italian Prime Minister; he kept the post until July 22, 1989. De Mita was a five-party coalition ( Pentapartito ) from DC, PSI , PRI , PSDI and PLI .

In 1989 he was elected President of the DC, which was a rather representative office. From 1992 to 1993 De Mita chaired the joint committee of both chambers of parliament on institutional reform. After the collapse of the DC as a result of the Tangentopoli scandal (in which De Mita himself was not involved), he joined the successor party Partito Popolare Italiano (PPI) in 1994 .

In 1996, Ciricao De Mita was one of the founders of the center-left alliance L'Ulivo , which Romano Prodi brought to power. After a two-year hiatus, he was re-elected to the Chamber of Deputies that year to which he belonged as a representative of the Campania 2 constituency until 2008. In the 1999 European elections , De Mita again won a mandate in the European Parliament, which he held until 2004. He belonged to the Christian Democratic EPP-ED Group and was a member of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs and the Delegation for EU- Russia Cooperation . In 2002 De Mita took part in the merger of the PPI with other groupings of the political center and left center to form the Democrazia è Libertà - La Margherita party , which united Christian-democratic or Christian-social and social-liberal elements. La Margherita, in turn, was absorbed in 2007 in the center-left rallying party Partito Democratico (PD).

On February 20, 2008, De Mita left the PD together with his nephew Giuseppe , as they - according to their party statutes - no longer proposed him to run for the 2008 parliamentary elections after more than three terms in the Italian parliament . Then Ciriaco and Giuseppe De Mita founded their own group, the Popolari per la Costituente , with which they joined the Christian Democratic Unione di Centro (UdC) of Pier Ferdinando Casini . For this he ran in vain for the Senate in the Campania region . In the European elections in Italy in 2009 he was finally elected to the European Parliament for the third time. As a member of the Group of the European People's Party, he was the oldest member of Parliament during this legislative term and was a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs . He was also a delegate in the ACP- EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly until his mandate ended in 2014.

In May 2014, the now 86-year-old Ciriaco De Mita replaced his nephew Giuseppe as mayor of his home town of Nusco. When the UdC approached the center-right alliance of Silvio Berlusconi again in 2017 , the two De Mita (uncle and nephew) and Marco Follini left the party and founded the micro-party L'Italia è Popolare , which in the 2018 parliamentary election was the center-left Alliance.

Honors

literature

Web links

Commons : Ciriaco De Mita  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ciriaco De Mita lascia il Partito Democratico ( Memento of the original from May 31, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. irpinianews.it, February 20, 2008  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.irpinianews.it
  2. ↑ De Mita capo al Senato lista con l'Unione di Centro. Pionati verso la Camera ( Memento of March 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Ottopagine.it, March 5, 2008
  3. ^ Website of the European Parliament
  4. ↑ AAS 82 (1990), n. 4, p. 408
personal data
SURNAME De Mita, Ciriaco
ALTERNATIVE NAMES De Mita, Luigi Ciriaco (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian politician (UdC), member of the Camera dei deputati, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Nusco