Mario Zagari

Mario Zagari

Mario Zagari (born September 14, 1913 in Milan , † February 29, 1996 in Rome ) was an Italian lawyer , journalist and politician from various socialist parties who, among other things, was a member of the Chamber of Deputies ( Camera dei deputati ), minister of various departments and a member of the European Parliament .

Life

Military service, MP and Undersecretary of State

After attending school, Zagari studied law and worked as a journalist after completing his studies. During the Second World War he did his military service as an officer in the Alpini , the Italian mountain troops . As a member of the Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale (CLN) he was arrested in October 1943.

Zagari, who was a member of the Constituent Assembly ( Assemblea Costituente della Repubblica Italiana ) from June 25, 1946 to April 26, 1948 , was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in the first parliamentary elections in 1948 and represented the constituency of Rome until June 24, 1953 . First, he represented there as a member of the of Giuseppe Saragat founded Partito Socialista dei Lavoratori Italiani (PSU), the electoral alliance Unità Socialista before it in January 1950, the Partito Socialista Unitario (PSU) joined and then in January 1952 he joined the faction of the Italian Democratic Socialist Party (PSDI).

In 1958 Zagari left the PSDI to form the Movimento Unitario di Iniziativa Socialista (MUIS), which in 1959 joined the Partito Socialista Italiano (PSI). In the elections of May 7, 1963, he was again elected a member of the Camera dei deputati and represented the constituency of Rome until June 19, 1979 as a member of the PSI .

After forming a coalition with the Democrazia Cristiana (DC), he was Under-Secretary of State in the Foreign Ministry during the second and third government of Prime Minister Aldo Moro from July 1964 to June 1968. During this period in 1966 the PSI and PSDI were reunified to form the United Socialist Party ( Partito Socialista Unificati ). The union was not honored by the voters and the PSU performed worse than before in the 1968 elections. The weakening meant heightened tensions in the coalition.

After he was Vice-President of the Parliamentary Commission for the Control of State Broadcasting, Radiotelevisione Italiana (RAI), at the beginning of the fifth legislative period from July to December 1968 , he was again Undersecretary of State between December 1968 and August 1969 during the first term of office of Prime Minister Mariano Rumor Foreign Ministry.

Minister and MEP

Prime Minister Rumor then appointed him foreign trade minister ( Ministro del Commercio con l'Estero ) in his third cabinet on March 27, 1970 . He also held this position in the subsequent government of Emilio Colombo until February 17, 1972.

On July 7, 1973 he was finally Minister of Justice ( Ministro della Giustizia ) in the fourth Rumors cabinet and held this function in the subsequent fifth Rumors cabinet until November 23, 1974.

After leaving the Chamber of Deputies, he became a member of the 1st European Parliament in 1979 , to which he also belonged during the second legislative period from 1984 to 1989.

After his death, Zagari was buried on the Cimitero degli Acattolici in Rome.

Web links

• Entry (1st legislative period) on the homepage of the Camera dei deputati
• Entry (4th legislative period) on the homepage of the Camera dei deputati
• Entry (5th legislative period) on the homepage of the Camera dei deputati
• Entry (VI. Legislative period) on the homepage of the Camera dei deputati
• Entry on Mario Zagari in the Members' database of the European Parliament