Oscar Mammì (25 October 1926 – 10 June 2017) was an Italian politician. A member of the

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(Partito Repubblicano Italian, or PRI), he was minister of Mail and Telecommunications from 1987 to 1991.

Biography

Mammì was born in

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and graduated in Economics and Trade. He was elected for PRI in the

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for the first time in 1972. After having been

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of Industry and Trade, he was first Minister of Parliamentary Relations in the

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I and Craxi II Cabinets, and later Minister of Mail and Telecommunications in the Goria, De Mita and Andreotti VI Cabinets. His name is connected with the so-called "Mammì Bill", issued in 1990, which was the first Italian comprehensive law dealing with media and TV and Radio advertisement. The law was accused of granting a substantial monopoly on public television to

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Italian state channel. Mammi died on 10 June 2017 at the age of 90.

References

Sources

Biography at Italian TV & Radio History website

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