Mario Rigo

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Mario Rigo (1992)

Mario Rigo (born October 4, 1929 in Noale ; † November 22, 2019 ) was the socialist mayor of Venice from 1975 to 1985 , replacing Giorgio Longo from the Democrazia Cristiana . In 1988 he resigned from the Socialist Party after almost 40 years, became a co-founder of autonomist groups and was a member of the European Parliament in the second electoral period (1984–1989) .

Life

In 1949, Rigo joined the anti-fascist collection Giustizia e Libertà (Justice and Freedom), founded 20 years earlier in Paris . There he met Armando Gavagnin , a member of the Partito d'Azione , a well-known anti-fascist at the time. In the same year Rigo joined the Partito Socialista Unitario . Like Gavagnin, Rigo joined the Movimento Unitario di Iniziativa Socialista , from which the Partito Socialista Italiano (PSI) emerged in 1959 .

Rigo was elected as a candidate of the PSDI in 1955 in Noale, against the candidates of Democrazia Cristiana and PCI-PSI (Communist and Socialist Party) to the Consigliere Comunale . Gavagnin was mayor from 1958 to 1960, and Rigo was re-elected to the PSI list in 1959. For this party he was elected Consigliere Provinciale in 1964 , at the same time the first coalition government of DC, PSI and PSDI was formed in the province of Venice. Roberto Fiorentini and Mario Rigo received seats for PSI, while Alberto Bagagiolo from the Christian Democrats, who also appointed the mayor, Giovanni Favaretto Fisca , became president . In the elections in Venice in 1970 Rigo was Consigliere Comunale and at the same time Vice Mayor (Vicesindaco) of the same coalition of DC, PSI and PSDI under Giorgio Longo of the Christian Democrats.

From 1975 to 1985 Rigo was mayor, and Giovanni Pellicani from the PCI became vice mayor. In this function, Rigo was also President of the Fenice and the Biennale , but also Presidente della Comunità dei Porti Adriatici , i.e. President of the Adriatic port cities.

In 1984 he stood for PSI in the elections to the European Parliament . He was mainly active in the finance commission, but also in the parliamentary commission, which was concerned with relations with Turkey. In 1985 Rigo was elected Consigliere Comunale in Venice, the center-left government was now led by the socialist Nereo Laroni , who was followed in 1987 by Antonio Casellati in the mayor's office. Rigo was elected senator at the Collegio de Mirano on this occasion . In 1988 he resigned with a letter to the party leader Bettino Craxi and also withdrew from the PSI, to which he had belonged for almost forty years.

In 1989, Mario Rigo co-founded the citizens' initiative that gave birth to various separatist movements such as the Lega Autonomia Veneto , the Lega Autonomia Friuli and the Lega Autonomia Trentino , autonomist groups from Veneto, Friuli and Trentino. In 1992 he was elected to parliament as a representative of the Lega Autonomia Veneta. With 4.7% of the votes (about 150,000 votes), however, it could not win a seat in the Veneto. In 1996 Rigo was a candidate for the Senate for the Ulivo coalition , in which he led the Lega Autonomia Veneta. His group, renamed Lega delle Regioni , ran in the 1999 European elections with groups that included the Partito Sardo d'Azione and the Italian Consumers Party (from which the Consumatori Uniti emerged ).

Rigo was a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in 1999 and of the Parliamentary Commission for Constitutional Reform in 2000.

literature

  • Claire Kennedy: The Transformation of the Democratic Left Party in Italy 1989–2000: A Case Study in Venice , BA, Griffith University , Brisbane 2005.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ https://www.ilgazzettino.it/nordest/venezia/mario_rigo_morto_ex_sindaco_venezia-4879433.html
  2. ↑ http://www.veneziatoday.it/cronaca/morto-mario-rigo.html
  3. ↑ https://corrieredelveneto.corriere.it/venezia-mestre/politica/19_novembre_22/venezia-morto-l-ex-sindaco-mario-rigo-4a528b3a-0d13-11ea-9ce3-eb93136ebb57.shtml
  4. ↑ https://nuovavenezia.gelocal.it/venezia/cronaca/2019/11/22/news/e-morto-l-ex-sindaco-di-venezia-mario-rigo-1.37952598
  5. ↑ https://www.vvox.it/2019/11/22/mario-rigo-morto-ex-sindaco-venezia-carnevale-turismo-mose/
  6. ^ Carl Levy: Italian regionalism. History, Identity and Politics , Berg, 1996, p. 157.
personal data
SURNAME Rigo, Mario
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian politician, Mayor of Venice, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH October 4, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Noale
DATE OF DEATH 22nd November 2019