Giuseppe Saragat
? Giuseppe Saragat { { {2 }} } / i ( born September 19, 1898 in Turin, † June 11, 1988 in Rome ) was an Italian politician.
Life
Saragat was the son of a Sardinian family originating from Spain. His father was born in Sassari. By 1920, studied Saragat. In 1922, he joined the United Socialist Party ( PSU). During the fascist regime of Benito Mussolini Saragat lived from 1926 to 1943 in exile in Austria, France and Switzerland, in close contact with Pietro Nenni.
In 1943 he returned to Italy, to the Resistance closed against the Republic of Salò on, fell into German captivity, from which he escaped and went to Milan, where he founded the PSI again along with others. The Cabinet Bonomi he belonged to as a minister without portfolio before he was from 1945 to 1946 served as his country's ambassador in Paris. In 1946 he was elected to the National Constituent Assembly, which he was president until 1947.
As Alcide De Gasperi aufkündigte its unity of action with the Socialists and Communists, left in 1947 under Saragat leadership of the right wing of the party and founded to continue the participation in government, the Socialist Workers Party of Italy ( PSLI ). From 1949 to 1951 Saragat was General Secretary of the party, from the 1951/52, through the merger with the United Socialist Party (PSU ) by Giuseppe Romita, the Socialist Party of Italy ( PSDI ) was. At its inception Saragat was actively involved.
In the elections of 1948 he appeared with his new party against the Popular Front alliance of PCI with the PSI and formed an alliance with the Christian Democrats, for which he was vilified as "social fascist" and " renegade " in the left spectrum. In the elections to the Chamber of Deputies his party received 7 %, 4.1% in the Senate, which he served from 1947 to 1949 as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Social Affairs in the Cabinet De Gasperi. As a convinced reformist and Atlanticist, he entered for the entry of Italy into NATO and the Marshall Plan. From 1954 to 1957 he was part of the Italian government again as the Deputy Prime Minister. From 1963 to 1964 he served as foreign minister of his country.
On December 28, 1964, he was elected with the votes of, inter alia, the Socialists and Communists president. This office he retained until 1971, after which he was ex officio senator for life. In March 1976 he joined again to the Office of the Secretary of the PSDI, from which he resigned already in June 1976 because of an election defeat of his party. From then on, he served as party president.