Emilio De Rose (27 March 1939 – 13 June 2018)"Senato della Repubblica, X Legislatura, 1987–1992: Emilio De Rose"
''senato.it'' (in Italian). Retrieved 15 September 2024. was an Italian dermatologist and socialist politician who served as the minister of public works for one year in the period 1987–1988. For most of his career, he was a member of the Italian Democratic Socialist Party (''Partito Socialista Democratico Italiano''; PSDI).

Biography

De Rose was born in

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, on 27 March 1939. He worked in Verona as a physician. He had been a member of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI), but resigned from the party and joined the PSDI. From 1975 to April 1978 he was the municipal councilor of Verona from the PSDI. He was elected to the

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for the PSDI in 1983 and 1987. He served as the minister of public works from July 1987 to March 1988 in the

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led by Prime Minister

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. Within the PSDI, De Rose was a member of the current that advocated reunification with the Italian Socialist Party, and in early 1989 he followed

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and

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into a new political formation, the Movement of Unity and Socialist Democracy (''Movimento di Unità e Democrazia Socialista''; UDS), which later that year was absorbed by the PSI. De Rose himself became a member of the Chamber's PSI group on 4 January 1990. He was not re-elected to the Chamber in the following general election and returned to his profession as a dermatologist.

Views and arrest

De Rose was a declared

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, being a member of a city lodge named after Franklin D. Roosevelt. In April 1993 De Rosa was arrested in Verona due to accusations of abusing power whilst serving as a member of parliament and as a member of the executive of the PSDI. He was jailed for fifteen days and later acquitted of all charges in November 2003.

Death

De Rose died in Verona in June 2018. A funeral ceremony was held in Sant’Eufemia on 13 June.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Rose, Emilio 20th-century Italian physicians 21st-century Italian physicians 1939 births 2018 deaths Deputies of Legislature IX of Italy Deputies of Legislature X of Italy Italian Democratic Socialist Party politicians Italian dermatologists Italian Freemasons Ministers of public works of Italy Italian Socialist Party politicians People from the Province of Cosenza