Mino Martinazzoli

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

Life

After studying law, he completed a fellowship from the Collegio Borromeo in Pavia, Martinazzoli began to engage in political activities, initially at the community level, later in the provincial council ( consiglio Provinciale ). From 1970 to 1972 he was president of the province of Brescia. He was elected to the Italian Senate in 1972, where he remained until 1983. 1983-1992 he was a deputy in the Chamber of Deputies. On August 4, 1983, he was appointed Attorney General of the government of Bettino Craxi; this office he held until August 1, 1986. After a cabinet reshuffle, he was between 1986 and 1989 Leader of the DC in the House of Representatives. From 1989 to 1990 he held the post of defense minister. From 1991 to 1992 he was in the seventh Giulio Andreotti Government Minister for Institutional Reform and Regional Affairs. From 1992 to 1994 he was again a member of the Senate.

On October 12, 1992 Martinazzoli was elected the Congress of the DC chairman. At this time the party was heavily burdened by the Tangentopoli scandal. In order to preserve a degree of political continuity, he struck before 1993 the founding of the Partito Popolare Italiano. The DC got deeper and deeper into the vortex of Mani - pulite investigations and broke up later that year. Martinazzoli was founded in 1994 Forza Italia party of the entrepreneur Silvio Berlusconi against hostile.

The parliamentary elections of 1994 were disappointing for Martinazzolis center alliance Patto per l' Italia. Became Prime Minister Berlusconi, the Patto per l' Italia reached only a minority interest of 11%. In the same year Martinazzoli ran for mayor of Brescia and won the election. In 1998, he no longer went to. In the following years, he joined that party wing of the Partito Popolare Italiano, who preferred a coalition with the center- left.

In 2000, to be the Lombardy region Martinazzoli tried as a candidate of the center-left alliance president (Presidente della Regione ), but his coalition gained only 32% of the vote. Until 2005 he was a member of the Regional Council. After the absorption of the PPI in the La Margherita - Democrazia è Libertà in 2002, he joined the popolari - Unione Democratici to per l' Europe.