Guido Bodrato Explained

Guido Bodrato
Office1:Minister of Public Education
Primeminister1:Arnaldo Forlani
Giovanni Spadolini
Term Start1:18 October 1980
Term End1:1 December 1982
Predecessor1:Adolfo Sarti
Successor1:Franca Falcucci
Office2:Minister of Budget
Primeminister2:Amintore Fanfani
Term Start2:2 December 1982
Term End2:29 April 1983
Predecessor2:Giorgio La Malfa
Successor2:Pietro Longo
Office3:Minister of Industry, Commerce and Craftsmanship
Primeminister3:Giulio Andreotti
Term Start3:12 April 1991
Term End3:28 June 1992
Predecessor3:Adolfo Battaglia
Successor3:Giuseppe Guarino
Office4:Member of the Chamber of Deputies
Term Start4:5 June 1968
Term End4:14 April 1994
Constituency4:Turin
Office5:Member of the European Parliament
Term Start5:1 July 1999
Term End5:1 July 2004
Constituency5:North-West Italy
Birth Date:1933 3, df=y
Birth Place:Monteu Roero, Italy
Death Place:Chieri, Italy
Nationality:Italian
Profession:Politician, economist
Party:DC (until 1994)
PPI (1994–2002)
DL (2002-2007)
Alma Mater:University of Turin

Guido Bodrato (27 March 1933 – 8 June 2023) was an Italian politician.

Biography

Bodrato was born in Monteu Roero, in Piedmont, and graduated in jurisprudence. He entered Christian Democracy (Democrazia Cristiana, or DC) and was elected in the Italian Chamber of Deputies for that party from 1968 to 1994. He was also municipal councillor in Turin. Together with Carlo Donat-Cattin, he was a leader of DC's Forze Nuove internal wing (a left wing), and later, as a collaborator of Benigno Zaccagnini, a founder of the so-called Area Zac with Mino Martinazzoli and others.

Bodrato was Minister of Education from 1980 and 1982 (Forlani and Spadolini I/II cabinets), then, in 1982-1983, Minister of Economic Balance in the Fanfani V cabinet. After a period as DC's vice-secretary under Ciriaco De Mita and then Arnaldo Forlani, he was again minister, this time of Industry and Commerce, in 1991-1992 (Andreotti VII Cabinet).

During the Mani Pulite scandal that wiped out DC and other Italian traditional government parties, he supported the renovation of new secretary Mino Martinazzoli, and the foundation of the new Italian People's Party (Partito Popolare Italiano, PPI). From 1996 to 1999 he was director of the party's newspaper Il Popolo. Bodrato was elected in the PPI's lists at the European Parliament in 1999-2004.

Bodrato died on 8 June 2023, at the age of 90.[1]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Morto Guido Bodrato, è stato deputato e ministro per la Dc. Letta: "Maestro di buona politica". La Repubblica. 9 June 2023. 9 June 2023.