Farewell to Luigi Berlinguer, minister and historic rector

Goodbye to Luigi Berlinguer. The previous minister died on the age of 91 (he was born in Sassari on 25 July 1932) after a protracted keep in Siena hospital since final August. Cousin of Enrico Berlinguer, associated to Francesco Cossiga, he was a deputy and senator and was a part of the Ciampi authorities in 1993, main the college and scientific analysis division. From 1996 to 2000 he was Minister of Public Training, first with Romano Prodi after which with Massimo D’Alema. His final election dates again to 2009, when he entered the European Parliament with the Democratic Celebration. The funeral chapel shall be arrange within the rector’s corridor of the College of Siena, the beloved college of which he was rector from 1985 to 1993. A member of the Sardinian Italian Communist Youth Federation, he’ll turn into its provincial and regional secretary. In 1952 he turned a member of the nationwide administration. His political profession within the communist social gathering began from the underside. First municipal councilor of Sennori (a small city within the province of Sassari) from 1956 to 1960, and mayor of the identical municipality from 1960 to 1964. Then provincial councilor from 1956, he was PCI deputy for Sardinia within the fourth legislature 1963-1968, member of the Constitutional Affairs Fee of the Chamber, notably concerned within the points of faculty and college reform.

In 1993, leaving the rectorate of Siena, he accepted the designation as Minister of the College and scientific analysis provided to him by the President of the Council of Ministers Carlo Azeglio Ciampi. In 1994 he ran for the Chamber because the progressive chief within the Tuscany constituency and was elected. Having run once more in 1996, he received within the School of Florence 1. In 2001, he was elected to the Senate within the School of Pisa, referred to as to be a part of the VII Everlasting Fee on Public Training and Analysis and of the Council for the Affairs of the European Communities. From 1996 to 1998 he assumed the management of the Ministry of Public Training within the first Prodi authorities and, advert interim, of that of the College and of scientific and technological analysis, to proceed in subsequent governments till 2000 as Minister of Public Training. Since 2007 he has been President of the Assure Fee of the Democratic Celebration. In April 2009, on the age of 77, he accepted the candidacy for the European Parliament for the PD as chief of the North East constituency. In 2010 he signed the Spinelli Group’s manifesto for a federal Europe.

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