Carlo Donat-Cattin (26 June 1919 – 17 March 1991) was an Italian politician and trade unionist. A member of

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, he was several times minister of the Italian Republic. He was leader of the internal left current of the DC

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(''New Forces'').

Biography

Donat-Cattin was born at

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. His father was from

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, where Donat-Cattin moved at a young age. During

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he fought with the "White faction" (Christian-Democrat) of the

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. In 1950 he took part in the foundation of the

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(Italian: ''Confederazione Italiana Sindacati Lavoratori'', abbreviated as CISL). In the meantime he entered Christian Democracy (Italian ''Democrazia Cristiana'', shortly DC), for which he was communal counsellor in Turin and, from 1953, provincial counsellor at the

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. Donat-Cattin was elected for the first time to the

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in 1958, a position he held until 1979, when he was elected to the

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. He was minister several times, first as Minister of Welfare and Health ( Rumor II, III,

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and

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s (1969–1972), then as Minister of

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(Rumor IV, 1973) and, from 1974 to 1978, Minister of Industry and Trade in four consecutive governments ( Moro IV and V, Andreotti III and IV). Belonging to the left wing of the party, in 1978 he became vice-secretary of DC. Donat-Cattin was initially in favour of dialogue towards DC's historical rival, the

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(Italian: ''Partito Comunista Italiano'', or PCI), but after 1979 he became a supporter of the ''preambolo'' theory, which aimed to exclude PCI from any state charge. In 1980, however, after his son

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was discovered to be a member of the far-left terrorist formation

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, he abandoned any public position and left politics for a while. In 1986 he was chosen as Minister of Health in the second

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-led government. At the time, he became a firm advocate of collaboration between DC and Craxi's party, the

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. In 1989 he was Minister of Welfare in the Andreotti VI government. He died at

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Donat-Cattin, Carlo 1919 births 1991 deaths People from the Province of Savona Christian Democracy (Italy) politicians Italian Ministers of Health Government ministers of Italy Deputies of Legislature III of Italy Deputies of Legislature IV of Italy Deputies of Legislature V of Italy Deputies of Legislature VI of Italy Deputies of Legislature VII of Italy Senators of Legislature VIII of Italy Senators of Legislature IX of Italy Senators of Legislature X of Italy Italian resistance movement members Italian trade unionists Italian male journalists 20th-century Italian journalists 20th-century Italian male writers