Giulio Andreotti

Giulio Andreotti (born the January 14th 1919 with Rome -) is a Politician Italy N.

Member of the Christian Democrat (cd.), member of Consulted Nazionale in 1945, he was elected appointed for the first time in 1946 and re-elected until the legislative elections of 1987. He resigned of his functions of deputy in 1991, after his nomination like Senator with life.

He exerted the functions of president of the Italian Council of Ministers to seven recoveries:

of the February 17th 1972 with the February 26th 1972, succeeding Emilio Colombo,
of the June 26th 1972 with the June 12th 1973, following one another itself (after a 4 months governmental crisis), and being in its turn replaced by Mariano Rumor (4th government),
of the July 29th 1976 with the January 16th 1978, succeeding Aldo Moro (after a 3 months governmental crisis),
of the March 11th 1978 with the January 31st 1979 , following one another itself (after a governmental crisis of one month and half),
of the March 20th 1979 with the March 31st 1979, following one another itself (after a 7 weeks governmental crisis), and being in its turn replaced by Francesco Cossiga (1st government) at the end of a new crisis having lasted 4 months,
of the July 22nd 1989 with the March 29th 1991, succeeding Ciriaco De Mita (after a 7 weeks governmental crisis),
of the April 12th 1991 with the April 24th 1992, following one another itself, after a “short” governmental crisis, and being in its turn replaced by Giuliano Amato.

Giulio Andreotti, called “the Stainless one”, in addition exerted various other ministerial responsibilities with 21 recoveries, among which one can quote:

Minister of Interior Department in January - February 1954
Minister for Finance of July 1955 at July 1958
Minister of Finances of July 1958 at February 1959
Minister for the Defense of February 1959 at February 1966
Minister of Industry and Trade of February 1966 at December 1968
Minister for the Defense from March to November 1974
Minister for the Budget, the economic Programming and the Case for the Mezzogiorno of November 1974 at July 1976
Foreign Minister of August 1983 with July 1989

In 1991 it was named Senator with life by the president of the Republic Francesco Cossiga. At the conclusion of the Italian legislative Elections of 2006, the Maison of freedoms (coalition of the center-right) presented it, without success, with the presidency of the Senate. He then stated to have voted confidence with the government of Romano Prodi, like all the others 6 senators with life.

Lawsuit

Its “active” political career (with the front of the scene) however was stopped in 1992, after the opening of legal information for bonds supposed with the Mafia, then a charge to have financed the murder of the journalist Mino Pecorelli in 1979.

A first judgment had discharged it this charge of murder, the September 24th 1999, but was cancelled the November 17th 2002 by the Court of Appeal of Perugia, which recognized it guilty and condemned it to 24 years of prison. Because of its parliamentary privilege, the inflicted sorrow forever carried out. The judgment was cancelled a few months later by the Court of appeal.

In the business of the bonds supposed with the Maffia, the sentence of first degree, the October 23rd 1999, had discharged it for insufficiency of evidence but the sentence in call, returned the May 2nd 2003, separated the judgment of the facts former to 1980 from those successive, and established that Andreotti “had made” the “offense of participation in the criminal conspiracy” (Cosa Nostra), “concretely recognizable until the spring 1980”, which however is “extinct for regulation”. For the posterior facts in spring 1980, Andreotti was discharged. The charge and defense presented a recourse in Cassation, the first against the part which discharged Andreotti, the second to erase the defamatory conclusion of the sentence of call. But the Court of appeal the October 15th 2004 confirmed the sentence of call. In the motivation, one can read on page 211: “Thus the seized sentence, beyond its theoretical assertions, recognized the participation in the offense of association not in the reducing terms of a simple availability, but in those vaster and juridically significant of a concrete collaboration (...)”. If the final sentence had arrived before the December 20th 2002 (term of the regulation), Andreotti would have been condemned on the basis of article 416, i.e. “simple” association, because the qualified association of gangster type (416 (a)) was introduced into the penal code only in 1982, with the law Rognoni it Torre. The conclusion of this historical lawsuit was however not deferred accurately by the media which spoke generally about discharge. ----

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