In office 3 July 1985 – 28 April 1992 Acting: 29 June 1985 – 3 July 1985
Prime Minister
Bettino Craxi Amintore Fanfani Giovanni Goria Ciriaco De Mita Giulio Andreotti
Preceded by
Sandro Pertini
Succeeded by
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro
President of the Senate of the Republic
In office 12 July 1983 – 3 July 1985
Preceded by
Vittorino Colombo
Succeeded by
Amintore Fanfani
Prime Minister of Italy
In office 5 August 1979 – 18 October 1980
President
Sandro Pertini
Preceded by
Giulio Andreotti
Succeeded by
Arnaldo Forlani
Minister of the Interior
In office 12 February 1976 – 11 May 1978
Prime Minister
Aldo Moro Giulio Andreotti
Preceded by
Luigi Gui
Succeeded by
Virginio Rognoni
Minister for Public Administration
In office 23 November 1974 – 12 February 1976
Prime Minister
Aldo Moro
Preceded by
Luigi Gui
Succeeded by
Tommaso Morlino
Member of the Senate of the Republic
Ex officio
Life tenure 28 April 1992 – 17 August 2010
In office 12 July 1983 – 3 July 1985
Constituency
Sardinia
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office 12 June 1958 – 11 July 1983
Constituency
Cagliari–Sassari
Personal details
Born
Francesco Maurizio Cossiga
(1928-07-26)26 July 1928 Sassari, Kingdom of Italy
Died
17 August 2010(2010-08-17) (aged 82) Rome, Italy
Political party
DC (1945–1992) UDR (1998–1999) UpR (1999–2001) Independent (2001–2010)
Height
1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Spouse
Giuseppa Sigurani
(m. 1960; div. 1998)
Children
2, including Giuseppe
Alma mater
University of Sassari
Occupation
Politician
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Francesco Maurizio CossigaOMRI (Italian pronunciation:[franˈtʃeskokosˈsiːɡa]ⓘ;[a] Sardinian: Frantziscu Maurìtziu Còssiga, IPA:[ˈkosiɣa]; 26 July 1928 – 17 August 2010)[1][2] was an Italian politician. A member of Christian Democracy, he was prime minister of Italy from 1979 to 1980 and the president of Italy from 1985 to 1992.[3] Cossiga is widely considered one of the most prominent and influential politicians of the First Italian Republic.
Cossiga served as minister on several occasions, most notably as Italian Minister of the Interior. In that position he re-structured the Italian police, civil protection and secret services. Due to his repressive approach to public protests, he was described as a strongman and labeled "Iron Minister".[4] He was in office at the time of the kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro by the Red Brigades, and resigned as the interior minister when Aldo Moro was found dead in May 1978.[5] Cossiga was the prime minister during the 1980 Bologna station massacre. Before his political career, he was also a professor of constitutional law at the University of Sassari.
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^Page at Senate website (in Italian).
^Profile of Francesco Cossiga
^Biografia – Francesco Cossiga
^I consigli di Cossiga alla Polizia "Prima una vittima, poi mano dura"
^Sassoon, Donald (18 August 2010). "Francesco Cossiga obituary". The Guardian.
premiership, Andreotti clashed many times with President of the Republic FrancescoCossiga. In 1990, Andreotti was involved in getting all parties to agree to...
Retcliffe was an agent provocateur for the Prussian secret police. FrancescoCossiga, former head of secret services and Head of state of Italy, advised...
War II. The government, led by Christian Democratic Prime Minister FrancescoCossiga, first assumed that the incident was due to an accidental explosion...
council's annual awards ceremony. President of the Italian Republic FrancescoCossiga conferred the decoration of Commendatore della Repubblica Italiana...
Senate. In 1991, Spadolini was appointed Lifetime Senator by President FrancescoCossiga. Spadolini was born in Florence in 1925. In his youth, he worked in...
murders in four years, and had planned to assassinate the politicians FrancescoCossiga, Gianfranco Fini and Adolfo Urso. The group maintained close links...
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fourth cabinet of Silvio Berlusconi (2008–2011). Cossiga was born in Sassari by politician FrancescoCossiga and his spouse, pharmacist Giuseppa Sigurani...
including claims of conspiracy by the Government of Italy and others. FrancescoCossiga, the Prime Minister of Italy at the time, attributed the crash to...
the Italian soil." This version was confirmed by former president FrancescoCossiga, who stated that Moro was the real and only creator of the pact. Moro...
addition, the name was used to sign death threats against Presidents FrancescoCossiga and Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, Interior Minister Nicola Mancino, and high-profile...
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exponents within the party about the goodness of this operation. FrancescoCossiga, who would be confirmed as Minister of the Interior in the new government...
taken during a meeting of the crisis committee, present at which were FrancescoCossiga, members of the Italian intelligence agencies, and Ferracuti. The...
Spadolini, as President of the Senate, assumed powers from President FrancescoCossiga on 28 April 1992. He exercised the powers until 28 May 1992. Mancino...
version of the standard was replaced in 1990 by then President FrancescoCossiga. Cossiga's new version of the standard contained the same royal blue background...
"I Governo Cossiga". storia.camera.it (in Italian). Archived from the original on 27 July 2020. Retrieved 10 July 2020. "II Governo Cossiga". storia.camera...
The Black Pope (Il Papa Nero) The Fox (La Volpe) Moloch Fulle name: FrancescoCossiga Koiga The Pickaxe-wielder (Il Picconatore) Full name: Arnaldo Forlani...
Presidency of Sandro Pertini (9 July 1978 – 29 June 1985): Presidency of FrancescoCossiga (3 July 1985 – 28 April 1992): Presidency of Oscar Luigi Scalfaro...
Giuseppe Saragat and Sandro Pertini, respectively, as well as with FrancescoCossiga of Christian Democracy (DC) and Carlo Azeglio Ciampi. Despite their...
vibrant attack at Benigno Zaccagnini, national secretary of the DC, at FrancescoCossiga, then interior minister, as well as on the whole of his party. He...
reunification of the country after more than 40 years. Italian president FrancescoCossiga, FIFA president João Havelange, FIFA secretary general Sepp Blatter...
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CAMBIA, ARNALDO NO". La Repubblica. In un'intervista televisiva, FrancescoCossiga sostiene che in quella circostanza la candidatura di Leone prevalse...
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