Claudio Martelli
Claudio Martelli ( born September 23, 1943 in gessate Province of Milan ) is an Italian journalist and politician of the Partito Socialista Italiano (PSI ) and the Nuovo Partito Socialista Italiano, among other things, a member of the Chamber of Deputies ( Camera dei deputati ), Member of the European Parliament, Vice - President of the Council of Ministers and Minister of Justice of Italy was.
Life
Study, party official and deputy
Martelli visited as before Bettino Craxi and later Gerry Scotti high school Giosuè Carducci in Milan, where the writer and journalist Massimo Fini was one of his classmates. After graduating from high school, he studied philosophy and became after the end of the study research assistant at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Milan.
His political career in the Partito Socialista Italiano ( PSI) began in 1966 in the local politics of Milan before he was brought in 1976 by Bettino Craxi, the recently appointed General Secretary of the PSI, as an employee in the party headquarters in Rome.
In the election of 12 June 1979, he was first elected to the PSI as a member of the Chamber of Deputies, where he first worked until June 1987 the constituency of Mantova and thereafter until 14 April 1994, the constituency represented Palermo. During his long parliamentary membership, he was also a member of the Standing Committees of Education and Fine Arts, Interior and Foreign Affairs.
At the Congress of the PSI in Palermo 1981, he was next to Valdo one of the two Vice- Secretary of the party, and thus deputy Craxi. On the next party congress in 1984 in Verona, he became the only Vice- Secretary of the PSI.
MEP, Vice - Prime Minister and Minister of Justice
In the European elections in 1984, he has also been also elected a member of the 2nd European Parliament and belonged to this until 1989.
On July 23, 1989, Claudio Martelli of Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti to the Deputy Prime Minister ( Vice Presidente del Consiglio dei Ministri ), and Minister of Justice ( Ministro della Giustizia ) appointed to the sixth cabinet and held these offices also in its seventh government until June 28, 1992. , the Office of the Minister of Justice, he then took over in the first cabinet of Prime Minister Giuliano Amato.
Tangentopoli scandal, Mani pulite - determination and resignation as minister
During his tenure, the so-called Tangentopoli scandal fell at the then- prosecutor Antonio Di Pietro in February 1992 in Milan, a system of corruption, abuse of office and illegal party financing laid bare. After this scandal and the subsequent revelations in the course of Mani pulite studies were massive accusations against the PSI and other parties to Martelli applied after the resignation of PSI General Secretary Craxi in February 1993 to its successor.
When it was subsequently accused of having been involved itself in the 1980s in the scandals surrounding the Milan Banco Ambrosiano, he resigned on 10 February 1993 returned as Minister of Justice and also declined the candidacy for the office of PSI -General, which was temporarily taken over by May 1993 by Giorgio Benvenuto and then Ottaviano Del Turco of.
However, he remained a member of the Camera dei deputati, which he resigned on April 28, 1993 from the PSI and the run of Marco Pannella Group Federal Ista Europeo joined.
Withdrawal from politics and renewed membership in the European Parliament
After his retirement from the Parliament on 14 April 1994 he worked in the private sector and founded in 1996 the charity Opera and citizens organization Società Aperta. In 1997 he was editor in chief, founded on the initiative of Pietro Nenni 1948 cultural-political magazine MondOperaio. He was also a consultant in 1998 the Minister of Social Solidarity, Livia Turco, in matters of immigration policy.
After Martelli member of Socialisti Democratici Italiani ( PDI) was, he was elected as the candidate as a member of the 5th European Parliament in the European elections in 1999 and belonged to this until 2004. On 19 January 2001 he founded, together with Gianni De Michelis and Bobo Craxi, Bettino Craxi's son, the Nuovo Partito Socialista Italiano ( NPSI ), but not reach far enough to the influence and power of the former PSI.
TV presenter and newspaper editor
After retiring from the European parliament, he became the private television channel Canale 5 presenter of the talk show Claudio Martelli Racconta and then from September 2005 to April 2006 the mission L' Incudine, of which also belong to the group Mediaset Silvio Berlusconi private broadcaster Italia 1 He then returned about Canale 5 back and moderated there in the fall of 2006, the television show flashback.
In addition, he was from 2005 to 2008 editor of the magazines and Osservatorio Oggi. In 2009 he returned to Channel 5 and addressed there as a television journalist with questions about the constitution of Italy.
In the local elections in 2011, he tried in vain a return to politics when he ran unsuccessfully for a seat on the city council of Siena.