Carlo Tognoli (16 June 1938 – 5 March 2021) was an Italian politician, who was

Mayor of Milan The mayor of Milan ( it, sindaco di Milano) is the first citizen and head of the municipal government of the city of Milan, Lombardy, Italy. The current office holder is Giuseppe Sala, a centre-left independent who has been in charge since 2016 M ...

and minister of the Italian Republic.

Biography

Tognoli was born at

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and joined 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, ...

(Partito Socialista Italiano, or PSI) in 1958. Elected into the

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, he was also Mayor of Milan from 1976 to 1986. In 1984–1987 he was also elected to the

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; in the latter year he was appointed Minister of Problems of Urban Areas in the cabinets of

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and

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. Later he was Minister of Tourism and Spectacles in the 6th and 7th

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governments. From 1981 to 1992 he was a journalist and director of the monthly newspaper

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. In 1992 he was involved in the

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scandal together with hisl party colleague Paolo Pillitteri (who had been his successor as mayor of Milan). Tognoli subsequently abandoned political activity and in 1995 obtained a position in

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thanks to the intercession of

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. Tognoli died in Milan on 5 March 2021, at the age of 82, from complications from

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during the

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.Milano, è morto l'ex sindaco socialista Carlo Tognoli: aveva 82 anni

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Online biography
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tognoli, Carlo 1938 births 2021 deaths Italian Socialist Party politicians Mayors of Milan Bocconi University alumni Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Lombardy Government ministers of Italy