Ugo Intini (30 June 1941 – 12 February 2024) was an Italian journalist and politician.

Political career

A long-time member of the

Italian Socialist Party The Italian Socialist Party (, PSI) was a Social democracy, social democratic and Democratic socialism, democratic socialist political party in Italy, whose history stretched for longer than a century, making it one of the longest-living parti ...

(PSI) and close aide of

Bettino Craxi Benedetto "Bettino" Craxi ( ; ; ; 24 February 1934 – 19 January 2000) was an Italian politician and statesman, leader of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) from 1976 to 1993, and the 45th Prime Minister of Italy, prime minister of Italy from 1 ...

, Intini was spokesman of the PSI and representative of the party in the

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. He founded the

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(PS) in 1996 and joined the Italian Democratic Socialists (SDI) in 1998. Intini led the electoral list of PSI in the region Liguria after

Sandro Pertini Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio "Sandro" Pertini (; 25 September 1896 – 24 February 1990) was an Italian socialist politician and statesman who served as President of Italy from 1978 to 1985. Early life Born in Stella (province of Savona) as t ...

and was elected three times in the

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from 1983 to 1994. In 2001, he was elected again a deputy in the

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of East Genoa, a position he maintained until 2006. He served twice in the

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-led government: from 2000 to 2001 as undersecretary to the Foreign Affairs and from 2006 to 2008 as Deputy Minister. From 1981 to 1987, Intini was editor of ''

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'', the daily newspaper of the PSI. Among his many books, there is a history of this newspaper, whose editors were Leonida Bissolati,

Benito Mussolini Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (29 July 188328 April 1945) was an Italian politician and journalist who, upon assuming office as Prime Minister of Italy, Prime Minister, became the dictator of Fascist Italy from the March on Rome in 1922 un ...

Antonio Gramsci Antonio Francesco Gramsci ( , ; ; 22 January 1891 – 27 April 1937) was an Italian Marxist philosophy, Marxist philosopher, Linguistics, linguist, journalist, writer, and politician. He wrote on philosophy, Political philosophy, political the ...

, Pietro Nenni, Giuseppe Saragat, Pertini, and Craxi. Intini died on 12 February 2024 at the age of 82.

Electoral history

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References

1941 births 2024 deaths Italian Socialist Party politicians Italian Democratic Socialist Party politicians Socialist Party (Italy, 1996) politicians Italian Socialist Party (2007) politicians Deputies of Legislature IX of Italy Deputies of Legislature X of Italy Deputies of Legislature XI of Italy Deputies of Legislature XIV of Italy Politicians from Milan {{Liguria-politician-stub