Bettino Craxi Amintore Fanfani Giovanni Goria Ciriaco De Mita
Preceded by
Emilio Colombo
Succeeded by
Gianni De Michelis
Minister of the Interior
In office 11 May 1978 – 13 June 1978
Prime Minister
Himself
Preceded by
Francesco Cossiga
Succeeded by
Virginio Rognoni
In office 19 January 1954 – 10 February 1954
Prime Minister
Amintore Fanfani
Preceded by
Amintore Fanfani
Succeeded by
Mario Scelba
Minister of Budget and Economic Planning
In office 23 November 1974 – 30 July 1976
Prime Minister
Aldo Moro
Preceded by
Antonio Giolitti
Succeeded by
Tommaso Morlino
Minister of Defence
In office 15 March 1974 – 23 November 1974
Prime Minister
Mariano Rumor
Preceded by
Mario Tanassi
Succeeded by
Arnaldo Forlani
In office 16 February 1959 – 24 February 1966
Prime Minister
Antonio Segni Fernando Tambroni Amintore Fanfani Giovanni Leone Aldo Moro
Preceded by
Antonio Segni
Succeeded by
Roberto Tremelloni
Minister of Industry, Commerce and Crafts
In office 24 February 1966 – 13 December 1968
Prime Minister
Aldo Moro Giovanni Leone
Preceded by
Edgardo Lami Starnuti
Succeeded by
Mario Tanassi
Minister of Treasury
In office 2 July 1958 – 16 February 1959
Prime Minister
Amintore Fanfani
Preceded by
Giuseppe Medici
Succeeded by
Fernando Tambroni
Minister of Finance
In office 6 July 1955 – 2 July 1958
Prime Minister
Antonio Segni Adone Zoli
Preceded by
Roberto Tremelloni
Succeeded by
Luigi Preti
Secretary of the Council of Ministers
In office 1 June 1947 – 19 January 1954
Prime Minister
Alcide De Gasperi Giuseppe Pella
Preceded by
Paolo Cappa
Succeeded by
Mariano Rumor
Parliamentary offices
Member of the Senate
Life tenure 1 June 1991 – 6 May 2013
Appointed by
Francesco Cossiga
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office 8 May 1948 – 31 May 1991
Constituency
Rome–Viterbo–Latina–Frosinone
Member of the Constituent Assembly
In office 25 June 1946 – 31 January 1948
Constituency
Rome–Viterbo–Latina–Frosinone
Personal details
Born
(1919-01-14)14 January 1919 Rome, Kingdom of Italy
Died
6 May 2013(2013-05-06) (aged 94) Rome, Italy
Political party
Christian Democracy (1942–1994)
Other political affiliations
Italian People's Party (1994–2001) European Democracy (2001–2002) Independent (2002–2008) Union of the Centre (2008–2013)[1]
Spouse
Livia Danese
(m. 1945)
Children
4, including Lamberto
Alma mater
Sapienza University of Rome
Profession
Politician
journalist
lawyer
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Giulio AndreottiOMI SMOM OCSG OESSH (US: /ˌɑːndreɪˈɒti/AHN-dray-OT-ee,[2]Italian pronunciation:[ˈdʒuːljoandreˈɔtti]; 14 January 1919 – 6 May 2013) was an Italian politician and statesman who served as the 41st prime minister of Italy in seven governments (1972–1973, 1976–1979, and 1989–1992),[3] and was leader of the Christian Democracy party and its right-wing; he was the sixth-longest-serving prime minister since the Italian unification and the second-longest-serving post-war prime minister. Andreotti is widely considered the most powerful and prominent politician of the First Republic.[4][5][6]
Beginning as a protégé of Alcide De Gasperi, Andreotti achieved cabinet rank at a young age and occupied all the major offices of state over the course of a 40-year political career, being seen as a reassuring figure by the civil service, business community, and Vatican. In foreign policy, he guided Italy's European Union integration and established closer relations with the Arab world. Admirers of Andreotti saw him as having mediated political and social contradictions, enabling the transformation of a substantially rural country into the world's fifth-largest economy. Critics said he had done nothing to challenge a system of patronage that had led to pervasive corruption. Andreotti staunchly supported the Vatican and a capitalist structure, and opposed the Italian Communist Party. Following the popular Italian sentiment of the time, he supported the development of a strong European community playing host to neoliberal economics. He was not opposed to the implementation of the European Social Fund and the European Regional Development Fund in building the European economy.[7]
At the height of his statesman career, Andreotti was subjected to criminal prosecutions and charged with colluding with Cosa Nostra. Courts managed to prove that he was undoubtedly linked with them until 1980; however, the case was closed due to past statutes of limitations.[8] The most sensational allegation came from prosecutors in Perugia, who charged him with ordering the murder of a journalist. He was found guilty at a trial, which led to complaints that the justice system had "gone mad". After being acquitted of all charges, in part due to statute-barred limitations,[8] Andreotti remarked: "Apart from the Punic Wars, for which I was too young, I have been blamed for everything that's happened in Italy."[9]
In addition to his prime ministerial posts, Andreotti served in numerous ministerial positions, among them as Minister of the Interior (1954 and 1978), Minister of Finance (1955–1958), Minister of Treasury (1958–1959), Minister of Defence (1959–1966 and 1974), Minister of Budget and Economic Planning (1974–1976), and Minister of Foreign Affairs (1983–1989), and was a senator for life from 1991 until his death in 2013.[3] He was also a journalist and author. Andreotti was sometimes called Divo Giulio (from Latin Divus Iulius, "Divine Julius", an epithet of Julius Caesar after his posthumous deification), or simply Il divo.[9]
^D'Alia, Gianpiero (14 January 2011). "Greetings, Andreotti always set an example for us". UDC official website (in Italian). Archived from the original on 27 January 2012. Retrieved 3 March 2013.
^"Andreotti". Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary. Retrieved 22 August 2019.
^ ab"Giulio Andreotti (XVII Legislatura), Dati anagrafici e incarichi". Senate of the Republic (Italy) (in Italian). Retrieved 6 May 2013.
^Cite error: The named reference Sassoon 2013 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^"Andreotti, the 'Beelzebub' of Italian politics, dies at 94". France 24. Agence France-Presse. 6 May 2013. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
^Cornwell, Rupert (7 May 2013). "Giulio Andreotti: Politician who dominated the Italian scene for more than half century". The Independent. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
^Irving, R. E. M. (July 1976). "Italy's Christian Democrats and European Integration". International Affairs. 52 (3): 400–416. doi:10.2307/2616553. JSTOR 2616553.
^ abMascali, Antonella (6 May 2013). "Andreotti morto, il tribunale disse: 'Ebbe rapporti organici con la mafia'". Il Fatto Quotidiano (in Italian). Retrieved 4 January 2019. The court recognized him guilty of mafia-related crimes until at least 1980, but there was no proof of his relationship with organized crime after 1980.
^ abCeron, Andrea; Ivernizzi, Giovanna Maria (10 March 2021). "Politics by Denunciation" (PDF). University of Turin. SSRN 3802552. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
GiulioAndreotti OMI SMOM OCSG OESSH (US: /ˌɑːndreɪˈɒti/ AHN-dray-OT-ee, Italian pronunciation: [ˈdʒuːljo andreˈɔtti]; 14 January 1919 – 6 May 2013) was...
the experience and involvement of former SOE officers. Following GiulioAndreotti's October 1990 revelations, General Sir John Hackett, former commander-in-chief...
trial for Mafia association in Palermo, former Italian prime minister GiulioAndreotti, Sicilian mafia boss Gaetano Badalamenti and Carminati, were charged...
Palestine (FPLP). Upon receiving the news, Italian foreign minister GiulioAndreotti and defence minister Giovanni Spadolini set about a negotiation that...
when he was forced to fight in the World War II and was succeeded by GiulioAndreotti, who at the time was a law student from Rome. During his university...
morning of 16 March 1978, the day on which the new cabinet led by GiulioAndreotti was supposed to have undergone a confidence vote in the Italian Parliament...
Cristiana), in particular with the former mayor of Palermo, Salvo Lima, and GiulioAndreotti. At the Maxi Trial against the Mafia in the mid-1980s, they were convicted...
the morning of 16 March 1978, the day on which a new cabinet led by GiulioAndreotti was to have undergone a confidence vote in the Italian Parliament,...
the son of Italian Senator and President of the Council of Ministers GiulioAndreotti. He graduated from Sapienza University of Rome with a degree in engineering;...
district, with four gunshots, on 20 March 1979. Former prime minister GiulioAndreotti was tried on charges of complicity in the murder of Pecorelli, but...
resignation in June 1981. In 1981, together with Bettino Craxi and GiulioAndreotti, he promoted the Pentapartito, the political coalition between the...
Tucci e la politica italiana in Oriente da Mussolini a Andreotti. Con il carteggio di GiulioAndreotti, Roma/Milano: Memori, Asiatica, 2012 (3rd ed. 2014)...
a fight broke out between them and military police. Prime Minister GiulioAndreotti and High Court judge Corrado Carnevale were long been suspected of...
given him by his long-time ally and rival at the same time, DC leader GiulioAndreotti. Craxi was born in Milan on 24 February 1934. His father Vittorio Craxi...
and claimed that Riina respectfully kissed three-time prime minister GiulioAndreotti when they met in 1987. Di Maggio was born in San Giuseppe Jato, a town...
with the faction of Amintore Fanfani and after 1964 with the one of GiulioAndreotti, seven times prime minister and a member of almost every post-war Italian...
with several powerful politicians in Sicily, and with prime minister GiulioAndreotti. In 1981 he was killed by the rival faction within Cosa Nostra, the...
only by members of the Christian Democracy. He chose, among others, GiulioAndreotti, another protégé of De Gasperi, as Minister of the Interior, Adone...
for Extraordinary Interventions in Southern Italy in the cabinet of GiulioAndreotti from 30 July 1976 to 21 March 1979. In the 1982 party congress, De...
by Ugo La Malfa and Bettino Craxi. The rightist Christian Democrat GiulioAndreotti also had doubts about the accommodation. Finally, the PCI started to...
declarations contributed to the indictment of Italy's former Prime Minister GiulioAndreotti and to an understanding of the context of the 1992 Mafia murders of...
Mariano) Full name: GiulioAndreotti Divus Julius (Divo Giulio) The Hunchback (Il Gobbo) Beelzebub (Belzebù) Uncle Giulio (Zio Giulio) The Sphinx (La Sfinge)...
originating from the region of Calabria. Former Prime Minister of Italy, GiulioAndreotti, had legal action against him, with a trial for mafia association on...
The 3rd G7 summit was the first summit for Italian Prime Minister GiulioAndreotti, Japanese Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda, and US President Jimmy Carter...
instrumental in Rome-based GiulioAndreotti becoming a force in national politics. In his turn, Salvo acted as financier to Andreotti. These connections caused...