Franco Marini
Franco Marini ( born April 9, 1933, San Pio delle Camere, L' Aquila Province ) is an Italian politician of the Partito Democratico (PD) and trade unionists. From April 2006 until April 2008, he officiated in the 15th legislative term as President of the Italian Senate.
On April 18, 2013 he was a candidate in two rounds of voting for the office of President of Italy (successor of Giorgio Napolitano ); in both, he did not reach the required two-thirds majority.
Political career
Marini grew up as the eldest son in a large family in modest circumstances of life, studied law after graduation and did his military service in the Alpini from. In 1950, he joined the Christian Democrats. At the same time he was for the Catholic Action and the Christian labor movement ACLI ( Associations Cristiane dei Lavoratori Italiani ) is active and began during his studies for a career in Christian CISL Trade Union Confederation ( Confederazione Italiana Sindacati Lavoratori ). His political mentor and foster father Giulio Pastore gave him in 1963 a job in the Education Department of the Ministry of southern Italian affairs. In 1965 he was elected to the board of the trade union of public employees. In the 1970s, he rose to become the deputy chairman of the CISL, whose chairman in 1985.
After the death of Carlo Donat Cattin 1991 he inherited the leadership function in the Forze nuove, left, socio-politically aligned flow within the Christian Democrats. In April of the same year he gave the union presidency and changed as labor minister in the seventh cabinet Andreotti. In April 1992, he was elected with the best election result for his party in the House of Representatives and moved in 1994 - after the dissolution of the Christian Democrats - the Partito Popolare Italiano, which he chaired from 1997 to 1999. In this capacity, he said, in contrast to Romano Prodi against a party merger within the center- left coalition The Olive from. He was elected to the European Parliament in 1999, where he worked in foreign and security policy issues until 2004.
In 2002 he participated in the formation of the Christian Democratic Party Collection La Margherita - Democrazia è Libertà and became its organizational ladder. As more oriented to the middle ( " centrist " ) politician, he was a merger of the Margherita with the Left Democrats to the Partito Democratico 2007 initially skeptical, but did not stand in his way.
In the parliamentary elections in April 2006, he was selected for the center- left coalition L' Unione in the Senate and ran there against the established rights of the Giulio Andreotti to the Office of the Senate President. Only in the third round, he was able to prevail on 29 April 2006 with 165 against 156 votes and has held since exactly two years, the second highest office in Italy.
According to the preliminary withdrawal of Romano Prodi on 21 February 2007, his name was brought to the office of prime minister in a transitional government repeatedly into the game, a few days later came through the recent confirmation of the Prodi government but from the table. A proposal of former Prime Minister and Senator Lamberto Dini in November 2007 pointed back Marini himself.
On 30 January 2008 Marini was commissioned after re Prodi resignation of President Giorgio Napolitano, with the formation of a transitional government, which was their main goal is a bipartisan negotiation of institutional and legal reforms either. Because of the disagreement between the two political camps and the insistence of the opposition parties on immediate elections Marinis efforts were without success. On 4 February 2008, he made his mandate to form a government back.
On April 17, 2013, was appointed by the PD, the PDL and the Scelta Civica (SC) as a candidate for the office of President of the Italian Republic, but missed the necessary majority in Parliament.