Ciriaco de Mita
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| In office 13 April 1988 – 22 July 1989 |
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| Preceded by | Giovanni Goria |
| Succeeded by | Giulio Andreotti |
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| Born | February 2, 1928 Nusco, Italy |
| Political party | Christian Democracy, Italian People's Party, Democracy is Freedom - Daisy |
Ciriaco Luigi de Mita (born February 2, 1928) is an Italian politician. He served as Prime Minister of Italy from 1988 until 1989.
[edit] Biography
De Mita was born in Nusco, in the Avellinese hinterland.
As a young man he joined the Democrazia Cristiana and entered politics. He rose through the ranks of the party, becoming a member of its council in 1956, a member of Parliament in 1963 and a member of the Italian cabinet in 1973. During the next decade he served as minister of industry and then as minister of foreign trade.
De Mita became chairman of the party in 1982 at a time when its power was declining. He was reelected in 1986 with 60% support from the party. The Christian Democrats did well in the elections of 1987. De Mita waited a year to become prime minister, and then served as Prime Minister for a year, maintaining the party chairmanship. At the beginning of that service, on April 16, 1988, in Forlì, Red Brigades killed Italian senator Roberto Ruffilli, an advisor of de Mita.
Returned in Parliament, after an exclusion of two years, in 1996 (and the re-elected in 2001 and 2006) he joined the Italian People's Party and later Democracy is Freedom - Daisy, party of which he is regional secretary for Campania. Although having headed the Olive Tree's list in his region in 2006, he is critical of transforming that alliance (between his party and the Democrats of the Left) in a single party (the so-called "Democratic Party").
| Preceded by: Giovanni Goria |
Prime Minister of Italy 1988–1989 |
Succeeded by: Giulio Andreotti |
| Preceded by: Flaminio Piccoli |
Secretary of the Italian Christian Democracy 1982-1989 |
Succeeded by: Arnaldo Forlani |
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