Mino Martinazzoli

Mino Martinazzoli

Mino Martinazzoli (born November 30, 1931 in Orzinuovi , Lombardy , † September 4, 2011 in Brescia ) was an Italian minister , lawyer and politician ( Democrazia Cristiana (DC), Partito Popolare Italiano (PPI) and La Margherita - Democrazia è Libertà ) .

Life

After studying law , which he completed as a scholarship holder of the Collegio Borromeo in Pavia , Martinazzoli began to be politically active, initially at the municipal level, later in the provincial council ( consiglio provinciale ). From 1970 to 1972 he was President of the Province of Brescia . In 1972 he was elected to the Italian Senate , of which he was a member until 1983. 1983 to 1992 he was a member of the House of Representatives . On August 4, 1983, he was appointed Minister of Justice in the government of Bettino Craxi ; he held this office until August 1, 1986. After a government reshuffle, he was parliamentary group leader of the DC in the House of Representatives between 1986 and 1989. From 1989 to 1990 he was Minister of Defense . From 1991 to 1992 he was Minister for Institutional Reforms and Regional Affairs in Giulio Andreotti's seventh government . From 1992 to 1994 he was again a member of the Senate.

On October 12, 1992 Martinazzoli was elected chairman of the DC party conference. At that time, the party was heavily burdened by the Tangentopoli scandal . In order to maintain a certain political continuity, he proposed the re-establishment of the Partito Popolare Italiano in 1993 . The DC got deeper and deeper into the vortex of the Mani pulite investigation and disbanded that same year. Martinazzoli was opposed to the Forza Italia party founded in 1994 by the entrepreneur Silvio Berlusconi .

The 1994 parliamentary elections were disappointing for Martinazzoli's center alliance Patto per l'Italia . Berlusconi became Prime Minister, while the Patto per l'Italia only achieved 11% of the vote. In the same year Martinazzoli ran for the office of mayor of Brescia and won the election. In 1998 he stopped taking part. In the following years he joined the party wing of the Partito Popolare Italiano, which preferred a coalition with the center-left .

In 2000 Martinazzoli tried to become President ( Presidente della Regione ) of the Lombardy region as a candidate for the center-left alliance , but his coalition only won 32% of the vote. Until 2005 he was a member of the regional council. After the PPI was absorbed in La Margherita - Democrazia è Libertà in 2002, he joined the Popolari-Unione Democratici per l'Europa .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Brescia, è morto Mino Martinazzoli at www.corriere.it ›Politica, February 2014
2. ↑ Entry on senato.it

Web links

• Entry in the Portale storico of the Camera dei Deputati