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Mino Martinazzoli

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Mino Martinazzoli
Mayor of Brescia
In office
5 December 1994 – 14 December 1998
Preceded byPaolo Corsini
Succeeded byPaolo Corsini
Minister of Defence
In office
22 July 1989 – 27 July 1990
Prime MinisterGiulio Andreotti
Preceded byValerio Zanone
Succeeded byVirginio Rognoni
Minister of Justice
In office
4 August 1983 – 1 August 1986
Prime MinisterBettino Craxi
Preceded byClelio Darida
Succeeded byVirginio Rognoni
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
12 July 1983 – 22 April 1992
ConstituencyBrescia–Bergamo
Member of the Senate of the Republic
In office
22 April 1992 – 14 April 1994
In office
25 May 1972 – 12 July 1983
ConstituencyBrescia
President of the province of Brescia
In office
10 May 1970 – 22 June 1972
Preceded byErcoliano Bazoli
Succeeded byTarcisio Gitti
Personal details
Born
Fermo Martinazzoli

(1931-11-30)30 November 1931
Orzinuovi, Italy
Died4 September 2011(2011-09-04) (aged 79)
Brescia, Italy
Political partyDC (till 1994)
PPI (1994–2002)
UDEUR (2004–2011)
Alma materUniversity of Pavia

Fermo "Mino" Martinazzoli (Italian pronunciation: [ˈfermo ˈmiːno martinatˈtsɔːli]; 3 November 1931 – 4 September 2011) was an Italian lawyer, politician, and former minister. He was the last secretary of the Christian Democracy (DC) party and the first secretary of the Italian People's Party (PPI) founded in 1994.

Early life and education

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Born in Orzinuovi, Martinazzoli studied at Collegio Borromeo in Pavia, where he received a law degree. He then became a lawyer.[1]

Career

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Martinazzoli's political career began in the 1960s and 1970s, when he assumed official roles in Brescia's DC. From 1970 to 1972, he was the province of Brescia president. In 1972, he was elected in the Senate of the Republic, after which he became Minister of Justice in 1983, a position he held for three years. In 1986–1989, he was president of DC's deputies. In 1989–1990, he was Minister of Defence but resigned, together with other ministers of the DC's left-wing, after the approval of a law that strengthened Silvio Berlusconi's monopoly over private TV channels in Italy.[2]

In 1992, when the DC party was being wiped out by the Tangentopoli bribery scandal, Martinazzoli, generally respected as an honest and competent man, was elected national secretary. Despite his efforts, the political crisis which followed the corruption scandals forced him to dissolve the DC in 1994. Martinazzoli then founded a new party, based on similar ideals, whose name recalled that of the ancestor of the DC, the Italian People's Party, which was founded in 1919 by Luigi Sturzo. In the new majoritarian system, Martinazzoli's party placed itself in the political centre between the political left, which included the heirs of the Italian Communist Party, and the political right with the new Berlusconi's Forza Italia, which had allied with the Northern Italy-based regionalist party, the Lega Nord (Northern League), as part of the Pole of Freedoms, and the post-fascist National Alliance as part of the Pole of Good Government. His will not to ally with any of them caused numerous politicians, such as Pierferdinando Casini and Clemente Mastella, to leave the PPI and form the Christian Democratic Centre (CCD), which supported Berlusconi. At the 1994 Italian general election, Martinazzoli formed a centrist alliance known as the Pact for Italy, including PPI and other democratic centrist forces. The result of the election was disappointing, with PPI obtaining 11%, some one third of the DC's consensus before its dissolution. In the same year, he accepted to run as mayor of Brescia for the new centre-left coalition, known as The Olive Tree, winning the final ballot and acting as mayor until 1998.[1]

In 2000, Martinazzoli lost the competition with Roberto Formigoni for the president of Lombardy.[2] After the PPI was dissolved in 2002, Martinazzoli migrated to Mastella's UDEUR in 2004, being appointed as its president, a position from which he resigned in 2005. He died on 4 September 2011, at the age of 79.[2]

Electoral history

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Election House Constituency Party Votes Result
1972 Senate of the Republic Brescia DC 84,749 checkY Elected
1976 Senate of the Republic Brescia DC 90,708 checkY Elected
1979 Senate of the Republic Brescia DC 90,137 checkY Elected
1983 Chamber of Deputies Brescia–Bergamo DC 45,208 checkY Elected
1987 Chamber of Deputies Brescia–Bergamo DC 70,895 checkY Elected
1992 Senate of the Republic Brescia DC 66,206 checkY Elected

References

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  1. ^ a b "Martinazzòli, Fermo Mino". Treccani (in Italian). 2019. Archived from the original on 6 April 2024. Retrieved 6 April 2024.
  2. ^ a b c "Brescia, è morto Mino Martinazzoli". Corriere della Sera. 4 September 2011. ISSN 2499-0485. Archived from the original on 6 April 2024. Retrieved 6 April 2024.

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Political offices
Preceded by Minister of Justice
1983–1986
Succeeded by
Preceded by Minister of Defence
1989–1990
Succeeded by
Preceded by Minister of Reforms and Regions
1991–1992
Succeeded byas Minister of Regions
Party political offices
Preceded by Secretary of Christian Democracy
1992–1994
Position abolished
New political party Secretary of the Italian People's Party
1994
Succeeded by