Rino Formica

Rino Formica (born March 1, 1927 in Bari , Province of Bari , Apulia ) is an Italian politician of the Partito Socialista Italiano (PSI), who was a member of the Senate ( Senato della Repubblica ) between 1968 and 1972 and from 1979 to 1983 and from 1983 to 1994 member of the Chamber of Deputies ( Camera dei deputati ) and several times Minister of various governments.

Life

Senator, Minister and Group Chairman

Formica graduated from school with a degree in economics and earned a doctorate in economics. He then worked as a management consultant and as an expert for the planning committee of the Apulia region . In addition, he was temporarily vice- mayor of his native Bari.

In the elections of May 19, 1968 , Formica was elected and represented for the first time as a member of the Senate ( Senato della Repubblica ) for the Partito Socialista Unificato (PSU), an alliance of the Partito Socialista Italiano (PSI) with the Partito Socialista Democratico Italiano (PSDI) in this until May 24, 1972 the interests of the Apulia region. At the beginning of the fifth legislative period , he was the provisional secretary of the President of Parliament during the constituent session on June 5, 1968 and served as vice- chairman of the PSU parliamentary group in the Senate between January 1969 and September 1970 . He was also vice chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on the Budget from October 1971 to May 1972.

As a candidate for PSI, Formica was re-elected as a member of the Senate in the elections of June 3, 1979 , and represented the Lombardy region there until June 11, 1983 . During the eighth legislative period, he was a member of the Senate Standing Committee on Budget from July 1979 to December 1982 and then between December 1982 and July 1983 a member of the Senate Standing Committee on Finance and Treasury.

On April 4, 1980 Formica was appointed by Prime Minister Francesco Cossiga as Minister of Transport ( Ministro dei trasporti ) in his second cabinet and held this ministerial office in the Forlani cabinet until June 27, 1981. He then took over in the first and second cabinet between Spadolini June 28, 1981 and November 30, 1982 the post of Minister of Finance ( Ministro delle finanze ). He later served as the successor to Alberto Cipellini from January 26 to July 11, 1983, as chairman of the PSI parliamentary group in the Senate.

MP and Minister

Formica was elected in the elections of June 27, 1983 for the PSI as a member of the Chamber of Deputies ( Camera dei deputati ) and represented the constituency of Bari until April 14, 1992 . During the ninth legislative period he was chairman of the PSI parliamentary group in the Chamber of Deputies between July 19, 1983 and August 1, 1986. He was also a member of the Finance and Treasury Committee between July 1983 and August 1986, and then a member of the Agriculture and Forestry Committee from August 1986 to July 1987.

In the second cabinet of Prime Minister Bettino Craxi , whose lifestyle he later criticized, he held the post of Foreign Trade Minister ( Ministro del Commercio con l'Estero ) from August 1, 1986 to April 17, 1987 . From July 28, 1987, to July 22, 1989, he was Minister for Labor and Social Security ( Ministro del Lavoro e Previdenza Sociale ) in the Goria and De Mita Cabinets . In the sixth and seventh Andreotti cabinet that followed, he held the post of finance minister again from July 22, 1989 to June 28, 1992.

In addition, he was a member of the Working Committee of the Chamber of Deputies in the tenth and the beginning of the eleventh legislative period between August 1987 and October 1992 and was then a member of the Finance Committee of the Camera dei Deputati from October 1992 to April 1994.

After the PSI was dissolved on November 12, 1994 and merged into the Socialisti Italiani (SI), Formica was one of the leaders of the Socialismo è Libertà group and on October 5, 2007 was one of the co-founders of the Costituente Socialista .

Web links

• Entry on the homepage of the Senato della Repubblica (5th legislative period)
• Entry on the homepage of the Senato della Repubblica (8th legislative period)
• Entry on the homepage of the Camera dei deputati (9th legislative period)
• Entry on the homepage of the Camera dei deputati (10th legislative period)
• Entry on the homepage of the Camera dei deputati (11th legislative period)