Mario Fasino (26 July 1920 – 17 January 2017) was an Italian politician, journalist, and one of the co-founders of

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(DC) in Sicily. He served as the

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of the

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from 20 September 1969 until 22 December 1972. Fasino was elected

of the

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from 1974 to 1976. In addition to his political career, Fasino, a

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, was the director of "Voce cattolica", the official publication of the

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. He was first elected to the

in 1951, representing a constituency in

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. Fasino would win re-election to the Sicilian Regional Assembly for an additional seven terms during his career. In 1969, Fasino was elected

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, the head of the regional government. He led five separate Sicilian governments from 1969 until he left the office of the presidency on 22 December 1972. Two years later, Fasino was elected

of the

, succeeding the outgoing speaker, Angelo Bonfiglio, who had been elected to the national

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. Fasino headed the Sicilian Regional Assembly as President from 1974 until 1976. In

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, Fasino lost re-election to the Sicilian Regional Assembly. However, he returned to the Assembly in 1983 when he was appointed to fill the vacant seat of Mario D'Acquisto, who had been elected to the

. Fasino declined to seek re-election to Assembly in

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, but remained a high-ranking official within the Sicilian regional DC Party. He was also appointed to the

(DC) national council. Fasino later became the President of the Centro di studi filologici e linguistici siciliani (CSFLS) (''Center of Philology Studies and Sicilian Language''). During the 1990s, Fasino was also appointed to the Sicilian Council of Regional Culture. Mario Fasino died in

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, on 17 January 2017, at the age of 96. His funeral was held at the Santa Maria di Monserrato Church in Palermo.

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