Lelio Lagorio

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Lelio Lagorio (born November 9, 1925 in Trieste , today Friuli-Venezia Giulia ; † January 7, 2017 in Florence ) was an Italian politician of the Partito Socialista Italiano (PSI), who among other things was mayor of Florence, president of the Tuscany region , defense minister and was Minister of Tourism.

Life

Lawyer, Mayor, Regional President and Member of Parliament

After attending school, he studied law and then worked as a lawyer and journalist . Lagorio, who was a member of the Partito Socialista Italiano (PSI), began his political career in local politics when he was elected mayor of Florence in 1965 as successor to Giorgio La Pira and held this office until 1966.

On July 28, 1970 he was elected the first president of the Tuscany region and held this position after being re-elected on July 28, 1975 until he was replaced by Mario Leone on September 26, 1978. For his longstanding political services he was awarded on December 27 In 1978 awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic .

Lagorio first became a member of the Chamber of Deputies ( Camera dei deputati ) for the PSI on June 20, 1979 and was a member of it during the eighth, ninth and tenth legislative periods until April 5, 1992.

Minister of Defense and downing of Itavia flight 870

Prime Minister Francesco Cossiga appointed him on April 4, 1980 as Minister of Defense (Ministro della Difesa) in his second cabinet. He also held this ministerial office in the following government of Arnaldo Forlani , in the first and second cabinets of Giovanni Spadolini and in the fifth cabinet of Amintore Fanfani until August 4, 1983. As defense minister, he was also Chancellor of the Military Order of Italy (Ordine militare d'Italia) .

During his tenure as Minister of Defense, Itavia flight 870 was shot down on the island of Ustica on June 27, 1980 . The then Chief of Staff of the Air Force ( Aeronautica Militare ) , Lamberto Bartolucci , followed the orders of the Italian government, i.e. the then Prime Minister Francesco Cossiga, the then Defense Minister Lagorio and the then State Secretary in the Council of Ministers Presidium Giuliano Amato . In Italy, the government, its secret services and the Italian air force systematically covered up the Itavia downing, for example by disappearing radar and radio recordings. In addition to the military intelligence service SISMI , the air force intelligence service SIOS-Aeronautica played a role in this context .

Lamberto Bartolucci and his colleagues Franco Ferri, Zeno Tascio and Corrado Melillo campaigned for a long time to explain that the Itavia plane crashed due to a bomb attack and that the Italian air force had nothing to do with the incident. However, a ruling from 2013 once again confirmed the launch by a rocket.

In 1981 he was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Infante Dom Henrique .

Tourism Minister, Group Chairman of PSI and Member of the European Parliament

In the first cabinet formed by Prime Minister Bettino Craxi , Lagorio was Minister for Tourism and Events (Ministro del Turismo e Spettacolo) from August 4, 1983 to August 1, 1986 .

During the ninth legislative period, he served from August 6, 1986 to July 9, 1987 as President of the PSI parliamentary group in the Chamber of Deputies. He was then from August 4, 1987 to October 17, 1989 Chairman of the Defense Committee.

In the European elections in 1989 , Lagorio was elected a member of the European Parliament and belonged to it during the third legislative period until 1994.

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Individual proof

  1. ^ Raffaello Binelli: Morto l'ex ministro Lagorio . IlGiornale.it , January 7, 2017, accessed January 7, 2017 (Italian).