Franco Bassanini (born 9 May 1940) is an Italian lawyer, politician, minister,[1] and undersecretary of state.

Franco Bassanini
Minister of Public Function
and Regional Affairs
In office
22 December 1999 – 11 June 2001
Prime MinisterMassimo D'Alema
Giuliano Amato
Preceded byAngelo Piazza
Succeeded byFranco Frattini
In office
18 May 1996 – 21 October 1998
Prime MinisterRomano Prodi
Preceded byGiovanni Motzo
Succeeded byAngelo Piazza
Member of the Senate of the Republic
In office
9 May 1996 – 27 April 2006
ConstituencyTuscany
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
20 June 1979 – 8 May 1996
ConstituencyRome (1979–1983)
Milan (1983–1996)
Personal details
Born (1940-05-09) 9 May 1940 (age 84)
Milan, Italy
Political partyPSI (before 1981)
Independent (1981–1983)
Independent Left (1983–1991)
PDS (1991–1998)
DS (1998–2007)
PD (since 2007)

Career

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Born in Milan, Bassanini was a deputy from 1979 to 1996 and a senator from 1996 to 2006. He served as the minister of public administration and regional affairs from 1996 to 2001 in the cabinets led by firstly Romano Prodi, then by Massimo D'Alema and lastly by Giuliano Amato.[2]

Bassannini was president of Astrid, a think-tank specialising in the study of institutional and administrative reform. As a member of the administrative council of the ENA, he was called by Nicolas Sarkozy in 2007 to take part in the Commission pour la libération de la croissance française, presided over by Jacques Attali and designed to reform France's administration.

Amember of Italy-USA Foundation, Bassanini served as the professor of constitutional law at the First University of Rome,[clarification needed] and was the chairman of Cassa Depositi e Prestiti. He is also on the advisory board of the Official and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF), where he is regularly involved in meetings regarding the financial and monetary system.[3]

Electoral history

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Election House Constituency Party Votes Result
1979 Chamber of Deputies Rome–Viterbo–Latina–Frosinone PSI 18,722  Y Elected
1983 Chamber of Deputies Milan–Pavia PCI 8,503  Y Elected
1987 Chamber of Deputies Milan–Pavia PCI 15,039  Y Elected
1992 Chamber of Deputies Milan–Pavia PDS 9,598  Y Elected
1994 Chamber of Deputies Lombardy 1 PDS [a]  Y Elected
1996 Senate of the Republic TuscanySiena PDS 108,816  Y Elected
2001 Senate of the Republic TuscanySiena DS 94,655  Y Elected
2006 Senate of the Republic Sicily DS [b]  N Not elected
  1. ^ Elected in a closed list proportional representation system.
  2. ^ Candidate in a closed list proportional representation system.

Honours

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  •   Italy: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, 13 January 2015.[4]

References

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  1. ^ Hine, David; Vassallo, Salvatore; Cattaneo, Istituto Carlo (2000). The return of politics. Berghahn Books. p. 139. ISBN 978-1-57181-798-3. Retrieved 6 April 2011.
  2. ^ Franco Bassanini, after a meeting with the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, declared that deregulation is a war that you never wins ... my job is to simplify, deregulate and delegify, but almost all my Cabinet colleagues do the opposite. It is a canvas of Penelope, but if I had not solved by night the complications that they write during the day, we would end up swamped by a kind of impenetrable legislative jungle: Buonomo, Giampiero (2012). "Liberalizzazioni: a cosa non si è pensato". Golem Informazione. Archived from the original on 2012-08-01. Retrieved 2016-04-10.
  3. ^ Bassanini, Franco. "Advisory Board". OMFIF. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
  4. ^ "Le onorificenze della Repubblica Italiana". Quirinale (in Italian). Retrieved October 24, 2022.