Luigi Preti

Luigi Preti (center) with the writer Luigi Silori (left) and the journalist Alberto Sensini (1968)

Luigi Preti (born October 23, 1914 in Ferrara , Province of Ferrara ; † January 19, 2009 ) was an Italian politician of the Partito Socialista Italiano (PSI), the Partito Socialista dei Lavoratori Italiani (PSLI) and most recently the Partito Socialista Democratico Italiano (PSDI) ), who was a member of the Chamber of Deputies ( Camera dei deputati ) between 1948 and 1987 . He held several ministerial posts in different governments and was among others from 1958 to 1959, between 1966 and 1968 and again from 1970 to 1972 Finance Minister of Italy .

Life

Lawyer, member of the Chamber of Deputies and Undersecretary of State

After attending school, Preti studied law at the University of Ferrara and then worked as a lawyer , lecturer in public law at the University of Ferrara and as a journalist . After the end of the Second World War he became a member of the Constituent National Assembly ( Assemblea Costituente ) on June 25, 1946 after the elections of June 2, 1946 for the Partito Socialista Italiano (PSI ) . On February 3, 1947, he moved to the Partito Socialista dei Lavoratori Italiani (PSLI) and acted as deputy secretary of their parliamentary group .

In the elections of April 18, 1948 , Preti was for the first time a member of the Chamber of Deputies ( Camera dei deputati ) for the PSLI , of which he was a member until the June 14, 1987 elections . In the first legislative term , he was a member of the Committee on Education and Fine Arts from June 1948 to July 1949 and from June 1948 to June 1953 a member of the Committee on Labor, Emigration, Cooperation, Social Welfare and Assistance, Post-War Support, Hygiene and Public Health. During the second legislative period he was a member of the Finance and Treasury Committee from July 1953 to March 1954. On December 11, 1954, he took over his first government office in the Scelba cabinet , namely as Undersecretary of State in the Treasury with responsibility for war pensions (Sottosegretario di Stato al Tesoro con delega per le Pensioni di Guerra) . He also held this position in the following first Segni cabinet until May 19, 1957.

minister

In the third and at the beginning of the fourth legislative period, he was again a member of the Committee on Finance and Treasury between June 1958 and January 1964. On July 1, 1958, Preti was appointed to a ministerial office by Prime Minister Amintore Fanfani in his second cabinet as Minister of Finance (Ministro delle Finanze) and held this ministerial office until February 15, 1959. In the fourth Fanfani cabinet, he held the post of Foreign Trade Minister (Ministro del Commercio con l'Estero) between February 21, 1962 and June 21, 1963 . He was in the first Moro cabinet from December 4, 1963 to July 22, 1964 Minister without Portfolio with responsibility for the reform of the public administration (Ministro senza Portafoglio con delega per la Riforma della Publica Amministrazione) .

In 1965 Preti was awarded the Premio Bancarella for his book Giovinezza, giovinezza . In the third Moro cabinet he held the post of finance minister again from February 23, 1966 to June 24, 1968.

He was again a member of the Finance and Treasury Committee from July 1968 and September 1969. In the first Rumor cabinet he served as budget minister (Ministro del Bilancio) between December 12, 1968 and August 5, 1969 . In the fifth legislative period, between September 1969 and May 1972, he was a member of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, State Organization, Regions and General Order of the Public Service. Preti also held the post of finance minister in the third cabinet and in the Colombo cabinet from March 27, 1970 to February 17, 1972.

In the sixth legislative period he was between May 1972 and September 1973 a member of the Committee on Budget, Programs and State Participation and from July 1972 to July 1973 chairman of this committee. He was also a representative in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe between October 1972 and July 1976 . He was also a member of the Judiciary Committee from September 1973 to July 1976. In the fourth and fifth Rumor cabinets , he served from July 7, 1973 to August 14, 1974, first as Minister for Transport and Civil Aviation (Ministro dei Trasporti e dell'Aviazione civile) and most recently between August 14 and November 23, 1974 as Minister of Transport (Ministro dei Trasporti) . In the seventh legislative period he was again a member of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, State Organization, Regions and General Order of the Public Service between July 1976 and October 1978.

Chairman of the PSDI Group and Vice-President of the Chamber of Deputies

During the seventh legislative period, Preti was also chairman of the PSDI parliamentary group in the Chamber of Deputies from July 15, 1976 to June 20, 1979. In addition, he was again a member of the Committee for Education and Fine Arts between October 1978 and June 1979 and chairman of this committee from November 1978 to June 1979. From March 20, 1979 to April 4, 1980, he again served as Minister of Transport in the fifth Andreotti cabinet and in the first Cossiga cabinet . In addition, he held the office of Minister for the Merchant Navy (Ministro della Marina Mercantile) in the fifth Andreotti cabinet between March 20 and August 4, 1979 .

During the eighth legislative period between July 1979 and July 1983, Preti was again a member of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, State Organization, Regions and General Order of the Public Service. From November 1980 and July 1981 he was again a member of the Committee on Education and Fine Arts. In addition, he was from December 17, 1980 to July 11, 1983 Vice-President of the Chamber of Deputies.

Most recently, Preti was a member during the ninth legislative period between July 1983 and July 1987 and, at the same time, from August 1983 to July 1987 chairman of the Committee on Affairs of the Prime Minister, Home Affairs, Religion and Public Corporations.

publication

• 1965: Giovinezza, giovinezza , awarded the Premio Bancarella in 1965

Web links

• Entry on the homepage of the Chamber of Deputies