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Carlo Vizzini
Carlo Vizzini (born 28 April 1947 in Palermo) is an Italian politician. Political life Vizzini was secretary of the Italian Democratic Socialist Party (PSDI) from 1992 to 1993, during which time he founded (along with Bettino Craxi of the Italian Socialist Party and Achille Occhetto of the Democratic Party of the Left) the Italian branch of the Party of European Socialists (PES). As a leading PSDI representative he was a minister in several successive governments, including time spent as the Minister for Cultural Assets and Activities (1987–88), as Minister for the Merchant Navy (1989–91), and as Minister of Post and Telecommunications (1991–92). Later, he became a member of the Italian Senate from Sicily for Forza Italia (FI) and latterly The People of Freedom (PdL). Vizzini was a leading member of one of Forza Italia's social-democratic factions, a group known as the Clubs of Reformist Initiative. The faction was succeeded by the social-democratic European Reformi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlo Vizzini
Carlo Vizzini (born 28 April 1947 in Palermo) is an Italian politician. Political life Vizzini was secretary of the Italian Democratic Socialist Party (PSDI) from 1992 to 1993, during which time he founded (along with Bettino Craxi of the Italian Socialist Party and Achille Occhetto of the Democratic Party of the Left) the Italian branch of the Party of European Socialists (PES). As a leading PSDI representative he was a minister in several successive governments, including time spent as the Minister for Cultural Assets and Activities (1987–88), as Minister for the Merchant Navy (1989–91), and as Minister of Post and Telecommunications (1991–92). Later, he became a member of the Italian Senate from Sicily for Forza Italia (FI) and latterly The People of Freedom (PdL). Vizzini was a leading member of one of Forza Italia's social-democratic factions, a group known as the Clubs of Reformist Initiative. The faction was succeeded by the social-democratic European Reformi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
European Reformists
European Reformists (''Riformisti Europei'', RE) was a social-democratic think tank, which functioned as a faction within The People of Freedom, a political party in Italy. RE aimed at "promoting the culture of liberal and socialist reformism in the context of a Europe aware of its role in the new international scenarios" and was composed mainly of former members of the Italian Democratic Socialist Party (Carlo Vizzini, president) and the Italian Socialist Party ( Anna Bonfrisco, Giampiero Cantoni and others). The group can be considered the continuation of the Clubs of Reformist Initiative, the faction Vizzini headed within Forza Italia. In November 2011 Vizzini abruptly left the PdL in order to join the new Italian Socialist Party. While leaving the party, Vizzini declared to ''Corriere della Sera'': "It seems to me that the PdL is set to become the Italian section of the European People's Party. I come from another tradition: I have been secretary of the PSDI and I was one of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Cariglia
Antonio Cariglia (28 March 1924 – 20 February 2010) was an Italian politician. Biography A graduate in political and social sciences, Cariglia was an MP and MEP several times between the 1960s and the 1990s for the Italian Democratic Socialist Party (PSDI), of which he was secretary from 1988 to 1992, when he became president of the party. In 1993, he was arrested at the behest of magistrates investigating the ''Mani pulite'' corruption scandal: among the charges he faced were those of extortion, receiving stolen goods, and illicit financing. Cariglia was fully acquitted from all of these accusations after a court case that lasted twelve years. In 2004 he was appointed Honorary President of the reborn Italian Democratic Socialist Party The Italian Democratic Socialist Party (, PSDI), also known as Italian Social Democratic Party, was a minor social-democratic political party in Italy. The longest serving partner in government for Christian Democracy, the PSDI had been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincenza Bono Parrino
Vincenza Bono Parrino (born 1942) is an Italian retired teacher and politician. She served as the minister of cultural and environmental heritage in the cabinet led by Prime Minister Ciriaco De Mita in the period 1988–1989. She was a member of the Italian Democratic Socialist Party. Biography Bono Parrino was born in Alcamo on 29 October 1942. She is a literature and history teacher and high school administrator by profession. She worked as a city councilor in Alcamo. She was a member of the Italian Senate for two terms, legislatures X (1987–1992) and XI (1992–1994) representing Sicily for the Italian Democratic Socialist Party. She was elected to the Senate when her husband died while serving as a senator. During her term at the senate Bono Parrino was the president of the Italian Democratic Socialist Party being the first Italian woman to hold this post. She was appointed minister of cultural and environmental heritage on 13 April 1988 to the cabinet headed by Ciriaco De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Cultural Heritage And Activities (Italy)
The Ministry of Culture ( it, Ministero della Cultura - MiC) is the ministry of the Government of Italy in charge of national museums and the ''monuments historiques''. MiC's headquarters are located in the historic Collegio Romano Palace (via del Collegio Romano 27, in central Rome) and the current Minister of Culture is Gennaro Sangiuliano. History It was set up in 1974 as the Ministry for Cultural Assets and Environments ( it, Ministero per i Beni Culturali ed Ambientali) by the Moro IV Cabinet through the decree read on 14 December 1974, n. 657, converted (with changes) from the law of 29 January 1975, n° 5. The new ministry (defined as — that is ''for'' cultural assets, showing the wish to create a mainly technical organ) largely has the remit and functions previously under the Ministry of Public Education (specifically its Antiquity and Fine Arts, and Academies and Libraries, sections). To this remit and functions it some of those of the Ministry of the Interi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Gullotti
Antonio is a masculine given name of Etruscan origin deriving from the root name Antonius. It is a common name among Romance language-speaking populations as well as the Balkans and Lusophone Africa. It has been among the top 400 most popular male baby names in the United States since the late 19th century and has been among the top 200 since the mid 20th century. In the English language it is translated as Anthony, and has some female derivatives: Antonia, Antónia, Antonieta, Antonietta, and Antonella'. It also has some male derivatives, such as Anthonio, Antón, Antò, Antonis, Antoñito, Antonino, Antonello, Tonio, Tono, Toño, Toñín, Tonino, Nantonio, Ninni, Totò, Tó, Tonini, Tony, Toni, Toninho, Toñito, and Tõnis. The Portuguese equivalent is António (Portuguese orthography) or Antônio (Brazilian Portuguese). In old Portuguese the form Antão was also used, not just to differentiate between older and younger but also between more and less important. In Galician th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quotidiano Di Sicilia
''Quotidiano di Sicilia'' is an Italian daily regional newspaper for the island of Sicily. History and profile ''Quotidiano di Sicilia'' was founded in 1979 and is based in Catania Catania (, , Sicilian and ) is the second largest municipality in Sicily, after Palermo. Despite its reputation as the second city of the island, Catania is the largest Sicilian conurbation, among the largest in Italy, as evidenced also by .... In 2008 the paper had a circulation of 21,500 copies. ''Accertamenti Diffusione Stampa'' Notes External links Official website * [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democratic Party (Italy)
The Democratic Party ( it, Partito Democratico , PD) is a social-democratic political party in Italy. The party's secretary is Enrico Letta, who was elected by the national assembly in March 2021, after the resignation of the former leader Nicola Zingaretti, while its president is Valentina Cuppi. The PD was established in 2007 upon the merger of various centre-left parties which had been part of The Olive Tree list in the 2006 general election, mainly the social-democratic Democrats of the Left (DS), successor of the Italian Communist Party and the Democratic Party of the Left, which was folded with several social-democratic parties ( Labour Federation and Social Christians, among others) in 1998, as well as the largely Catholic-inspired Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy (DL), a merger of the Italian People's Party (heir of the Christian Democracy party's left wing), The Democrats and Italian Renewal in 2002. While the party has also been influenced by social liberalism an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Statute Of Limitations
A statute of limitations, known in civil law systems as a prescriptive period, is a law passed by a legislative body to set the maximum time after an event within which legal proceedings may be initiated. ("Time for commencing proceedings") In most jurisdictions, such periods exist for both criminal law and civil law such as contract law and property law, though often under different names and with varying details. When the time which is specified in a statute of limitations runs out, a claim might no longer be filed or, if it is filed, it may be subject to dismissal if the defense against that claim is raised that the claim is time-barred as having been filed after the statutory limitations period. When a statute of limitations expires in a criminal case, the courts no longer have jurisdiction. Most common crimes that have statutes of limitations are distinguished from particularly serious crimes because the latter claims may be brought at any time. In civil law systems, such ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tangentopoli
''Mani pulite'' (; Italian for "clean hands") was a nationwide judicial investigation into political corruption in Italy held in the early 1990s, resulting in the demise of the so-called " First Republic" and the disappearance of many Italian political parties. Some politicians and industry leaders committed suicide after their crimes were exposed. Antonio Di Pietro was the main judicial figure in charge of the investigation. In some accounts, as many as 5,000 public figures fell under suspicion. At one point, more than half of the members of the Italian Parliament were under indictment, while more than 400 city and town councils were dissolved because of corruption charges. The estimated value of bribes paid annually in the 1980s by Italian and foreign companies bidding for large government contracts reached US$4 billion (6.5 trillion lire). The corrupt system uncovered by the investigation was referred to as ''Tangentopoli'' (). The term derives from Italian ''tangente'', w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Democratic Socialist Party (2004)
The Italian Democratic Socialist Party (, PSDI) is a minor social-democratic political party in Italy established in 2004 as the continuation of the historical Italian Democratic Socialist Party, so that the new PSDI numbers its congresses in perfect continuity with the old PSDI. After being part of The Union (Italy), The Union in 2006, the party supported The People of Freedom (PdL) of the Centre-right coalition (Italy), centre-right coalition in 2013, while in 2018 it supported Forza Italia (2013), Forza Italia, which succeeded the PdL. The PSDI retains some support locally in the South, especially in Apulia. In 2005, the party's list won 2.2% of the vote and got one deputy elected to the Regional Council. In 2010, the party was not able to file a list and lost its regional representation. History Re-foundation of the PSDI At the end of 2003, several former members of the PSDI, who initially converged in the Italian Democratic Socialists, reorganized the Italian Democratic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Socialist Party (2007)
The Italian Socialist Party ( it, Partito Socialista Italiano, PSI) is a social-democratic political party in Italy. The party was founded in 2007–2008 by the merger of the following social-democratic parties and groups: Enrico Boselli's Italian Democratic Socialists (legal successor of the Italian Socialist Party), the faction of the New Italian Socialist Party led by Gianni De Michelis, The Italian Socialists of Bobo Craxi, Democracy and Socialism of Gavino Angius, the Association for the Rose in the Fist of Lanfranco Turci, ''Socialism is Freedom'' of Rino Formica and some other minor organizations. Until October 2009, the party was known as Socialist Party ( it, Partito Socialista, PS). From 2008 to 2019, Riccardo Nencini from Tuscany has been party leader. Elected senator with the Democratic Party in 2013 and re-elected in 2018, he was Deputy Minister of Infrastructures and Transports from 2014 to 2019 (Renzi Cabinet and Gentiloni Cabinet). In March 2019, Nencini stepp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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