Giuseppe Alessi

Giuseppe Alessi

Giuseppe Alessi (born October 29, 1905 in San Cataldo , Sicily , † July 13, 2009 ) was an Italian politician ( DC ).

Life

Giuseppe Alessi studied law and was involved in the Catholic Action (Azione cattolica) and in 1943 was a co-founder of the Italian Christian Democratic Democrazia Cristiana . In 1944 he became president of the Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale (CLN) ("Committee of National Liberation"), a political body of the resistance movement , in the province of Caltanissetta . In April 1947 he became the first president of the Democrazia Cristiana for the region of Sicily ; in May 1947 he was at the head of the first regional government of Sicily (1947-1949; 1955-1956). In 1957 he was unanimously elected President of the Regional Assembly of Sicily .

In 1963 he became a senator in the Italian Senate in Rome; he was a member of the parliamentary committee on justice and the committee to combat the mafia. In 1968 he became a member of the Camera dei Deputati and deputy chairman of the Legal Affairs Committee. Alessi led the parliamentary committee of inquiry into the events of June and July 1964 around the intelligence service Servizio Informazioni Forze Armate (SIFAR) . From 1972 to 1992 he was President of the Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana . In 1992 he retired; Nevertheless, he was committed to a renewal of the Democrazia Cristiana.

Web links

• Giuseppe Alessi è stato la storia vivente dell'autonomia siciliana, il protagonista del suo tempo, il testimone di una grande stagione politica ( Memento of February 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), July 13, 2009

predecessor	Office	successor
-	President of Sicily 1947–1949	Franco Restivo
Franco Restivo	President of Sicily 1955–1956	Giuseppe La Loggia