Enrico Manca

Enrico Manca (born November 27, 1931 in Rome ; † July 5, 2011 ibid) was an Italian journalist , politician , temporarily foreign trade minister and former president of Radiotelevisione Italiana (RAI).

Life

After attending school, Manca studied law and graduated in 1959 with honors. He then began his professional career as a journalist and was initially editor of a radio journal at RAI, then became deputy editor-in-chief for television journals and finally director of cultural television services at RAI.

At the beginning of the 1970s he began his political career in the Partito Socialista Italiano (PSI) and, as its candidate in 1972, became a member of the Chamber of Deputies ( Camera dei deputati ) and was a member until 1994. During this time he was appointed Minister for Foreign Trade in April 1980 by Prime Minister Francesco Cossiga in his second cabinet and held this office in the subsequent government of Prime Minister Arnaldo Forlani until June 1981.

On October 23, 1986, Manca succeeded Sergio Zavoli as President of the RAI and held this position until he was replaced by Walter Pedullà on February 19, 1992. During his tenure in 1987 there was a dispute with the well-known entertainer and presenter Pippo Baudo , who then left the RAI and switched to the channel Canale 5 .

1992 left the PSI at the beginning of the disintegration and founded the Partito socialista riformista (PSR) together with Fabrizio Cicchitto . Most recently, he was President of the Institute for Research into Innovations in Media and Multimedia (Istituto per lo studio dell'Innovazione nei Media e per la Multimedialità) and the Bordoni Foundation.

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SURNAME	Manca, Enrico
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian journalist and politician, member of the Camera dei deputati
DATE OF BIRTH	November 27, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rome
DATE OF DEATH	July 5, 2011
Place of death	Rome