President Francesco Cossiga Constituency XX - Campania II Residence Avellino, Italy Preceded by Mauro Ferri Role Italian Politician | Prime Minister Mariano Rumor Name Ciriaco Mita Preceded by Giovanni Goria Nationality Italian Succeeded by Giulio Andreotti | |
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Born 2 February 1928 (age 96)
Nusco, Campania, Italy ( 1928-02-02 ) Education Catholic University of the Sacred Heart Children Giuseppe De Mita, Antonia De Mita Political party Christian Democracy, Italian People's Party, Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy, Democratic Party Similar People Arnaldo Forlani, Vincenzo De Luca, Walter Veltroni, Rosa Russo Iervolino | ||
Faccia a faccia ciriaco de mita il padrino della dc alessio porcu
Ciriaco Luigi De Mita ([tʃiˈriːako luˈiːʤi de ˈmiːta]; born 2 February 1928) is an Italian politician. He served as the 47th Prime Minister of Italy from 1988 to 1989 and as Member of the European Parliament from 2009 to 2013.
Contents
- Faccia a faccia ciriaco de mita il padrino della dc alessio porcu
- A blast from the past brutale scontro tra il radical chic del no ciriaco de mita e matteo renzi
- Background and earlier career
- Prime Minister of Italy
- Later political roles
- References
A blast from the past brutale scontro tra il radical chic del no ciriaco de mita e matteo renzi
Background and earlier career
De Mita was born in Nusco in the Avellinese hinterland.
As a young man De Mita joined Christian Democracy and entered politics. He rose through the ranks of the party, becoming a member of its council in 1956, a member of Parliament in 1963 and a member of the Italian cabinet in 1973. During the next decade he served as Minister of Industry and then as Minister of Foreign Trade.
De Mita became chairman of the party in 1982 at a time when its power was declining. He was re-elected in 1986 with 60% support from the party.
Prime Minister of Italy
The Christian Democrats did well in the elections of 1987. De Mita waited a year to become Prime Minister, and then served as Prime Minister for a year, maintaining the party chairmanship. At the beginning of that service, on 16 April 1988, in Forlì, Red Brigades killed Senator Roberto Ruffilli, an advisor of De Mita.
In social policy, De Mita's time in office witnessed the passage of a law in May 1988 that introduced a new benefit for salaried workers called "benefit for the family nucleus" ("assegno per il nucleo familiare"), with the amount varying depending on the number of family members and the family income of the previous year.
Later political roles
De Mita returned in Parliament, after a lag of two years, in 1996 (and then re-elected in 2001 and 2006). He then joined the Italian People's Party and later Democracy is Freedom - The Daisy, party of which he is regional coordinator for Campania. He headed the Olive Tree's list in his region in 2006, and he participated in the transformation that coalition into a single party (the Democratic Party). Following an attempt by the chairmanship (presided by Walter Veltroni) at rejuvenating the ranks of the Democratic Party, De Mita was refused a place on the ballot for the 2008 general election, on the grounds that a total of 44 years and 9 months of active presence in the Italian Parliament was long enough and that more space was needed to be given to younger candidates. Offended by the decision, he left the party in retaliation, and joined the Union of the Centre. After the 2008 elections, De Mita was not elected at the Italian Senate, but he was nominated as the Campania coordinator of the party.
De Mita won a seat in the European Parliament in the June 2009 European election; at age 81, he was the oldest candidate to win a seat in that election.
On 25 May 2014 De Mita was elected as mayor of Nusco, his native town.