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Rino Formica

Italian politician (born 1927)


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Italian politician (born 1927)

FieldValue
nameRino Formica
imageRino Formica.jpg
orderMinister of Finance
primeministerGiulio Andreotti
term_start23 July 1989
term_end28 June 1992
predecessorEmilio Colombo
successorGiovanni Goria
primeminister2Giovanni Spadolini
term_start228 June 1981
term_end21 December 1982
predecessor2Franco Reviglio
successor2Francesco Forte
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order3Minister of Labour and Social Security
primeminister3Giovanni Goria
Ciriaco De Mita
term_start329 July 1987
term_end323 July 1989
predecessor3Ermanno Gorrieri
successor3Carlo Donat-Cattin
order4Minister of Transport
primeminister4Francesco Cossiga
Arnaldo Forlani
term_start44 April 1980
term_end428 June 1981
predecessor4Luigi Preti
successor4Vincenzo Balzamo
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order5Member of the Chamber of Deputies
term_start512 July 1983
term_end514 April 1994
constituency5Bari
order6Member of the Senate of the Republic
term_start620 June 1979
term_end611 July 1983
constituency6Lombardy
term_start75 June 1968
term_end724 May 1972
constituency7Apulia
birth_date
birth_placeBari, Italy
partyItalian Socialist Party
nationalityItalian
occupationChartered accountant, politician

Ciriaco De Mita Arnaldo Forlani Salvatore Formica (born 1 March 1927), best known as Rino Formica, is a former Italian politician.

Biography

Formica was born in Bari. He became a member of national importance of the Italian Socialist Party (Italian: Partito Socialista Italiano, or simply PSI) during the leadership of Bettino Craxi. He was several times Minister of the Italian Republic starting from 1980. He was Minister of Budget in the Spadolini II Cabinet, whose fall was caused by a quarrel between Formica and the other economy minister Beniamino Andreatta.

Formica was strongly critical of the PSI's transformation from a popular, social-based party into one involved in numerous corruption and official malfeasance scandals under Craxi. He declared "the convent is poor, but the monks are rich" (in reference to PSI's financial problems, where its members were instead increasingly well endowed), and defined PSI's national assembly as "a court of dwarves and ballerinas. Formica was one of the numerous PSI members involved in the Mani Pulite scandal of the early 1990s, although he was acquitted in the two trials raised against him. After Craxi's resignation as PSI national secretary in 1993, he supported Claudio Martelli as his successor. In 1994 he was not re-elected to the Italian Parliament for the first time since the 1970s.

In 2003, he founded a party called Socialismo è Libertà and later adhered to the new Italian Socialist Party, a small-sized formation of socialists who did not join the centre-left Democratic Party or the centre-right New PSI.

Electoral history

ElectionHouseConstituencyPartyVotesResult1968197219761979198319871992
Senate of the RepublicApulia – BariItalian Socialist Party}}"PSI25,936Elected
Senate of the RepublicApulia – BariItalian Socialist Party}}"PSI20,370Not elected
Chamber of DeputiesBari–FoggiaItalian Socialist Party}}"PSI25,138Not elected
Senate of the RepublicLombardy – Milan VIItalian Socialist Party}}"PSI51,345Elected
Chamber of DeputiesBari–FoggiaItalian Socialist Party}}"PSI74,895Elected
Chamber of DeputiesBari–FoggiaItalian Socialist Party}}"PSI75,251Elected
Chamber of DeputiesBari–FoggiaItalian Socialist Party}}"PSI53,812Elected

References

References

  1. Veltri, Elio. (1993). "Da Craxi a Craxi". Laterza.
  2. Stimolo, Sergio. (1994). "Onorevole parli chiaro". Rizzoli.
  3. Perna, Giancarlo. "Formica assolto dopo 17 anni". [[Il Giornale]].
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