Enrico Manca (27 November 1931 – 5 July 2011) was an Italian politician.

Biography

Having graduated with a degree in law from the

University of Rome "La Sapienza" The Sapienza University of Rome ( it, Sapienza – Università di Roma), also called simply Sapienza or the University of Rome, and formally the Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", is a public research university located in Rome, Ita ...

, in 1959 Manca joined the Italian state broadcaster

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and from 1961 to 1972 was editor of Giornale Radio Rai, central editor of the TV news, and director of cultural television services. A member of the

Italian Socialist Party The Italian Socialist Party (, PSI) was a socialist and later social-democratic political party in Italy, whose history stretched for longer than a century, making it one of the longest-living parties of the country. Founded in Genoa in 1892, ...

(PSI), he was elected a Deputy for the first time in 1972 and served as Minister of Foreign Trade in the

Cossiga II Cabinet The Cossiga II Cabinet, led by Francesco Cossiga, was the 37th cabinet of the Italian Republic. It fell due to the rejection of the 1980 Budget by Parliament by secret ballot. Party breakdown * Christian Democracy (DC): Prime minister, 15 mi ...

and in the

Forlani Cabinet The Forlani Cabinet, led by Arnaldo Forlani, was the 38th cabinet of the Italian Republic. The government was composed of DC, PSI, PSDI and PRI, with the abstention of the PLI. Since in the Italian Senate the abstention is valid as a contrary v ...

. His name was found on the lists of members of the P2 Masonic lodge (card no. 864) in 1981, although Manca himself repeatedly denied any adherence to the lodge. On 4 December 1986 he resigned as a Deputy due to a conflict of interests, having agreed that year to serve as the next President of RAI. He was re-elected in 1987, but again had to resign due to the incompatibility that arose from his new position. He was the head of RAI until 1992, when he returned to parliament having been once again re-elected as a Deputy. In 1994 he founded the

Reformist Socialist Party The Reformist Socialist Party (''Partito Socialista Riformista'', PSR) was a tiny Social democracy, social-democratic List of political parties in Italy, political party in Italy. It was founded after the ''Tangentopoli'' scandal, in opposition t ...

with his PSI colleague (and erstwhile P2 member)

Fabrizio Cicchitto Fabrizio Cicchitto (born 26 October 1940) is an Italian politician, whose career has followed a trajectory from radical socialism to centre-right reformism. Biography Fabrizio Cicchitto entered politics in the early 1960s, supporting the Ricc ...

, where he remained until 1996, when he joined the

Socialist Party Socialist Party is the name of many different political parties around the world. All of these parties claim to uphold some form of socialism, though they may have very different interpretations of what "socialism" means. Statistically, most of th ...

. Later, he became a member of the

Italian Democratic Socialists The Italian Democratic Socialists ( it, Socialisti Democratici Italiani, SDI) were a social-democratic political party in Italy. The party was the direct continuation of the Italian Socialists, the legal successor of the historical Italian Soci ...

and, in 2002,

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. In 2007 he finally joined the

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, in which he remained a member until his death in 2011.Notizia della morte da La Repubblica
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