Office: | Minister of Justice |
Primeminister: | Aldo Moro |
Predecessor: | Mario Zagari |
Successor: | Francesco Paolo Bonifacio |
Term Start: | 23 November 1974 |
Term End: | 12 February 1976 |
Predecessor2: | Silvio Gava |
Successor2: | Emilio Colombo |
Term Start2: | 27 March 1970 |
Term End2: | 6 March 1971 |
Primeminister3: | Aldo Moro |
Predecessor3: | Giacinto Bosco |
Successor3: | Guido Gonella |
Term Start3: | 4 December 1963 |
Term End3: | 24 June 1968 |
Birth Date: | 1902 10, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Lecce, Kingdom of Italy |
Death Place: | Rome, Italy |
Party: | Italian Republican Party |
Nationality: | Italian |
Oronzo Reale (24 October 1902 - 14 July 1988) was an Italian politician, who served as justice minister in the 1960s and 1970s.
Reale was born in Lecce on 24 October 1902.[1] He received a degree in law.
He was a member and the head of the Republican Party.[2] [3] He served as the secretary of the party.[4] In the 1970s he tried the French model to reorganize the party for which he set up a committee.[5]
Reale also assumed cabinet posts. On 4 December 1963, he became justice minister of Italy. He was reappointed justice minister to the coalition government led by Prime Minister Aldo Moro on 24 February 1966.[6] His term ended on 24 June 1968. Then Reale served as the minister of finance from 12 December 1968 to 5 August 1969.
He was secondly appointed justice minister on 27 March 1970 and served in the post until March 1971.[3] His third and last term as justice minister was from 23 November 1974 to 12 February 1976. During his third term as justice minister, Reale developed a public law order, called Legge Reale or more formally public law order 152 which was introduced on 22 May 1975 as a response to bombings organized by right-wing groups in Brescia.[7] The law expanded the powers of Italian security forces.[7] [8]
Reale died on 14 July 1988, aged 85.[9] [10]