| Giuseppe Saragat | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Office: | President of Italy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Term Start: | 29 December 1964 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Term End: | 29 December 1971 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Primeminister: | Aldo Moro Giovanni Leone Mariano Rumor Emilio Colombo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Predecessor: | Antonio Segni | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Successor: | Giovanni Leone | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Order2: | President of the Constituent Assembly | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Term Start2: | 25 June 1946 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Term End2: | 6 February 1947 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Predecessor2: | Office established | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Successor2: | Umberto Terracini
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| Birth Date: | 19 September 1898 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Birth Place: | Turin, Italy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Death Place: | Rome, Italy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality: | Italian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Spouse: | [1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Party: | PSU (1922–1930) PSI (1930–1947) PSDI (1947–1988) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma Mater: | University of Turin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Giuseppe Saragat (pronounced as /it/; 19 September 1898 – 11 June 1988)[2] was an Italian politician and statesman who served as the president of Italy from 1964 to 1971.
Saragat was born on 19 September 1898 in Turin, Piedmont, Kingdom of Italy, to Sardinian parents. He was a member of the Unitary Socialist Party (Partito Socialista Unitario; PSU) from 1922. He moved to Vienna in 1926 and to France in 1929.
Following the dissolution of the PSU in 1930, Saragat joined the Italian Socialist Party (Partito Socialista Italiano, PSI). A reformist, he was a democratic socialist who left the PSI in 1947 out of concern over its then-close alliance with the Italian Communist Party. He subsequently founded the Socialist Party of Italian Workers (Partito Socialista dei Lavoratori Italiani, PSLI), which in 1952 became the Italian Democratic Socialist Party (Partito Socialista Democratico Italiano; PSDI). He was to be the paramount leader of the PSDI for the rest of his life.[3]
In 1944, Saragat had been a minister without portfolio and ambassador in Paris from 1945 to 1946, before he was appointed president of the Constituent Assembly of Italy that same year upon the establishment of the Italian Republic. He was minister of foreign affairs in the Moro I Cabinet and Moro II Cabinet, headed by Christian Democracy leader Aldo Moro from 1963 to late 1964, when he was chosen as President of the Italian Republic. His election demonstrated a rare instance of unity among the Italian left and followed rumours of a possible neo-fascist coup, Piano Solo, during Antonio Segni's presidency.[4]
Saragat died in Rome, Lazio, on 11 June 1988. An atheist,[1] he is said to have become a Catholic and had a religious funeral.[5]
| width=12% | Election | width=30% | House | width=40% | Constituency | width=5% colspan="2" | Party | width=12% | Votes | width=12% | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946 | Constituent Assembly | Rome–Viterbo–Latina–Frosinone | PSIUP | 29,981 | |||||||
| 1948 | Chamber of Deputies | Turin–Novara–Vercelli | US | 31,988 | |||||||
| 1953 | Chamber of Deputies | Turin–Novara–Vercelli | PSDI | 16,833 | Elected | ||||||
| 1958 | Chamber of Deputies | Turin–Novara–Vercelli | PSDI | 12,484 | Elected | ||||||
| 1963 | Chamber of Deputies | Turin–Novara–Vercelli | PSDI | 24,539 | Elected |
| Candidate | Supported by | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Giuseppe Saragat | PSDI, DC, PSI, PCI, PRI | 646 | 67.1 | |
| Gaetano Martino | PLI | 56 | 5.8 | |
| Augusto De Marsanich | MSI, PDIUM | 40 | 4.1 | |
| align=left colspan=2 | Others / Invalid votes | 185 | 19.2 | |
| align=left colspan=3 | Total | 927 | 100.0 | |