Alberto Jacometti

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Alberto Jacometti
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Secretary General of the Italian Socialist Party
In office
April 1948 – 1949
Preceded byLelio Basso
Succeeded byPietro Nenni
Personal details
Born10 March 1902
Novara, Italy
Died10 January 1985(1985-01-10) (aged 82)
Novara, Italy
Political partyItalian Socialist Party

Alberto Jacometti (1902–1985) was an Italian journalist and socialist politician. He served as a deputy at the Italian Parliament and as a secretary general of the Italian Socialist Party for a short period between 1948 and 1949. He resigned from the party one year before his death in 1985.

Biography[]

Jacometti was born in Novara on 10 March 1902.[1] He became a member of the Italian Socialist Party and participated in World War I.[2] When the oppression of the Fascist rule intensified he left Italy and settled in Paris in 1926.[2][3] There he edited a publication entitled L'iniziativa.[2] In 1929 he settled in Belgium and contributed to a publication, Problemi della Rivoluzione italiana.[2] From 1941 he joined the National Committee of Liberation for the Novara province.[1]

Jacometti during a television interview in 1963

Following his return to Italy Jacometti became a member of the National Council.[3] Being a member of the Italian Socialist Party he led the centrist faction along with Riccardo Lombardi.[4] In the congress dated 18 April 1948 Jacometti was elected as the secretary general of the Italian Socialist Party succeeding Lelio Basso who had resigned from the office.[2][4] Jacometti's term as the secretary general was brief and ended in 1949 when he was forced to resign from the office due to the opposition of Pietro Nenni and Lelio Basso.[2] Jacometti served at the Italian Parliament until 1963.[3] He left the Italian Socialist Party in 1984 due to his conflict with the party leader Bettino Craxi.[2] Jacometti died in his hometown, Novara, 10 January 1985.[1]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c Giuseppe Sircana (2004). "Jacometti, Alberto" (in Italian). Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (Volume 62). Retrieved 1 February 2022.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Renzo Fiammetti (October–December 1991). "Alberto Jacometti dal primo dopoguerra alla stagione del Centrosinistra: La Vita E L'Impegno Politico". Il Politico. 56 (4): 728.
  3. ^ a b c "Alberto Jacometti" (in Italian). ANPI. 2010. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
  4. ^ a b Raphael Zariski (June 1962). "The Italian Socialist Party: A Case Study in Factional Conflict". The American Political Science Review. 56 (2): 373. doi:10.2307/1952373.

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