Remo Gaspari (10 July 1921 – 19 July 2011) was an Italian politician, who was several times minister of the Italian Republic.

Biography

Gaspari was born in

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, in

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, a region which would be his main electoral basin during his political career. He graduated in law at the

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. Gaspari was a member of the Italian parliament without interruptions from 1968 to 1992. He was a member of the so-called ''Dorotei'' wing of

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(Italian: ''Democrazia Cristiana'', simply DC) along with

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and

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. In 1960, he was undersecretary to Mail and Telecommunications in the

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. After a series of positions as undersecretary in various ministers, he became minister for the first time in the second

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government (1968), and subsequently, again under Rumor and the follower prime ministers

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and Andreotti, he was Minister of Reformation of Public Administration. In the Andreotti II Cabinet he was Minister of Health. Gaspari was also national vice-secretary of DC in 1976–1980. In 1980 he became Minister of Relationships with the Parliament in the second Cossiga government, Minister of Public Functions in the two

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-led cabinets, and, from 1987, Minister of Defence in the short-lived

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government. After a period as Minister for Mezzogiorno, he ended his government career as Minister of Public Functions in the sixth and seventh cabinets led by Giulio Andreotti in the early 1990s. A song by

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mentions an episode in which Gaspari used a state helicopter to arrive in time to watch an

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match. Gaspari died in Gissi from infarction in July 2011."Lutto in Abruzzo: morto Remo Gaspari"

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Gaspari, Remo 1921 births 2011 deaths People from the Province of Chieti Christian Democracy (Italy) politicians 20th-century Italian politicians Transport ministers of Italy Italian Ministers of Defence University of Bologna alumni