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Ottaviano Del Turco

Italian politician (1944–2024)

Summary

Italian politician (1944–2024)

Field	Value
name	Ottaviano Del Turco
image	Del_Turco_2001.jpg
caption	Del Turco in 2001
order	President of Abruzzo
term_start	22 April 2005
term_end	13 July 2008
predecessor	Giovanni Pace
successor	Giovanni Chiodi
order2	Minister of Finance
term_start2	26 April 2000
term_end2	11 June 2001
primeminister2	Giuliano Amato
predecessor2	Vincenzo Visco
successor2	Giulio Tremonti
(Economy and Finance)
order3	Member of the European Parliament
term_start3	20 July 2004
term_end3	1 May 2005
constituency3	Southern Italy
order4	Member of the Senate of the Republic
term_start4	9 May 1996
term_end4	19 July 2004
constituency4	Tuscany (1996–2001)
Abruzzo (2001–2004)
order5	Member of the Chamber of Deputies
term_start5	15 April 1994
term_end5	8 May 1996
constituency5	San Lazzaro di Savena
birth_date
birth_place	Collelongo, Italy
death_date
death_place	Collelongo, Italy
nationality	Italian
profession	Trade unionist
party	PSI (till 1994)
SI (1994–1998)
SDI (1998–2007)
PD (2007–2024)

(Economy and Finance) Abruzzo (2001–2004) SI (1994–1998) SDI (1998–2007) PD (2007–2024)

Ottaviano Del Turco (7 November 1944 – 22 August 2024) was an Italian politician.

Biography

Early life

Del Turco was born in Collelongo on 7 November 1944.

Career

After a career in trade unionism in the Italian General Confederation of Labour (CGIL), Del Turco rose to the top of Bettino Craxi's Italian Socialist Party (PSI) before it was swept away in the Tangentopoli scandals of 1992–94. Del Turco was the president of the Antimafia Commission from December 1996 to May 2000. He was Minister of Finance in the cabinet led by the then prime minister Giuliano Amato from 2000 to 2001.

He was elected to the European Parliament in 2004 on the Italian Democratic Socialists (SDI) ticket and sat with the Party of European Socialists group. On 20 July 2004, he was elected chair of the committee on employment and social affairs at the parliament.

On 4 April 2005, he won the election as president of his native Abruzzo as candidate for centre-left coalition The Union, and on 1 May resigned his seat in the European Parliament to take up this post. In 2007, he founded the Reformist Alliance (Italian: Alleanza Riformista) movement within the SDI, with which he left the SDI and became a member of the Democratic Party (Partito Democratico, PD) at the PD's founding congress on 14 October 2007. He was a member of the 45-strong national council. On 16 July 2008, he resigned as President of Abruzzo, and left the national council of the PD.

Death

Del Turco died in Collelongo on 22 August 2024, at the age of 79.

Legal issues

On 14 July 2008, Del Turco was arrested on suspicion of involvement in a €12.8 million fraud in the financing of the public health system of his region. He was not charged with a crime, but was suspected of corruption and criminal association, prosecutors said. He was among 10 people arrested or placed under house arrest.

Del Turco was sentenced to nine and a half years in prison for his involvement in the exchange of health sector bribes. He was convicted by a court in the city of Pescara on Monday 22 July 2013. The sentencing was in connection with a major €15 million (US$19 million) fraud in the financing of the public health system. In addition to the jail term, he was ordered to pay more than €3 million in damages and given a lifetime ban on holding public office.

Electoral history

Election	House	Constituency	Votes	Result	Notes	1994
Chamber of Deputies	San Lazzaro di Savena	The Olive Tree (Italy)}}"	SI	46,472	Elected	https://elezionistorico.interno.gov.it/index.php?tpel=C&dtel=27/03/1994&tpa=I&tpe=L&lev0=0&levsut0=0&lev1=11&levsut1=1&levsut2=2&ne1=11&es0=S&es1=S&es2=S&ms=S&ne2=1119&lev2=19&unipro=uni
Senate of the Republic	Tuscany – Grosseto	The Olive Tree (Italy)}}"	SI	89,141	Elected	https://elezionistorico.interno.gov.it/index.php?tpel=S&dtel=21/04/1996&tpa=I&tpe=L&lev0=0&levsut0=0&lev1=9&levsut1=1&levsut2=2&ne1=9&es0=S&es1=S&es2=S&ms=S&ne2=914&lev2=14
Senate of the Republic	Abruzzo – L'Aquila	Italian Democratic Socialists}}"	SDI	60,446	Elected	https://elezionistorico.interno.gov.it/index.php?tpel=S&dtel=13/05/2001&tpa=I&tpe=L&lev0=0&levsut0=0&lev1=13&levsut1=1&levsut2=2&ne1=13&es0=S&es1=S&es2=S&ms=S&ne2=1301&lev2=1
European Parliament	Southern Italy	Italian Democratic Socialists}}"	SDI	174,598	Elected	https://elezionistorico.interno.gov.it/index.php?tpel=E&dtel=12/06/2004&tpa=Y&tpe=I&lev0=0&levsut0=0&levsut1=1&es0=S&es1=N&ms=S&ne1=4&lev1=4

References

"Ottaviano Del Turco". European Parliament.
(14 July 2008). "Former Italian minister arrested". BBC News.
(24 July 2004). "European Parliament appoints President, Committees chairs and Commission President". CPME.
"April 2005". Rulers.
(13 May 2007). "Del Turco fonda Alleanza Riformista".
(14 May 2007). "Costituzione del Movimento di Alleanza Riformista".
Fatucchi, Marzio. (29 June 2007). "400 socialisti scelgono il Pd".
"July 2008". Rulers.
(24 August 2024). "Morto Ottaviano Del Turco, ex presidente Abruzzo". [[Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata]].
(14 July 2008). "Italian governor is held on corruption charges". International Herald Tribune.

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