Nicola Capria | |
Office1: | Minister for the Coordination of Civil Protection |
Primeminister1: | Giulio Andreotti |
Term Start1: | 12 April 1991 |
Term End1: | 28 June 1992 |
Predecessor1: | Vito Lattanzio |
Successor1: | Ferdinando Facchiano |
Office2: | Minister of Tourism and Entertainment |
Primeminister2: | Bettino Craxi |
Term Start2: | 1 August 1986 |
Term End2: | 17 April 1987 |
Predecessor2: | Lelio Lagorio |
Successor2: | Mario Di Lazzaro |
Office3: | Minister of Foreign Trade |
Primeminister3: | Giovanni Spadolini Amintore Fanfani Bettino Craxi |
Term Start3: | 28 June 1981 |
Term End3: | 1 August 1986 |
Predecessor3: | Enrico Manca |
Successor3: | Rino Formica |
Office4: | Member of the Chamber of Deputies |
Term Start4: | 5 July 1976 |
Term End4: | 14 April 1994 |
Birth Date: | 1932 11, df=y |
Birth Place: | Rosarno, Calabria, Italy |
Death Place: | Rome, Lazio, Italy |
Nationality: | Italian |
Profession: | Politician, lawyer |
Nicola Capria (6 November 1932 – 31 January 2009) was an Italian politician, member of the Italian Socialist Party.
He was Deputy from 1976 to 1994 and served also as Minister several times from 1986 to 1992 in the governments led by Spadolini, Fanfani, Craxi and Andreotti.
He was also city councilor in Messina, Vice-president of the Sicily Region, regional deputy to the Sicilian Regional Assembly and regional secretary of the Sicilian PSI.
He resigned as parliamentary leader of the PSI when, on 12 January 1994, the prosecutor's office of the Republic of Messina notified him of a guarantee notice in the context of investigations into the Sirap affair for external competition in mafia association. From that moment, although fulfilled with a full formula, because the fact does not exist, he definitively closed all relations with the world of politics.[1]
He died in Rome on 31 January 2009, at the age of 79.