Andreotti III Cabinet

Andreotti III Cabinet
33rd Cabinet of Italy
Date formed	30 July 1976 (1976-07-30)
Date dissolved	13 March 1978 (1978-03-13)
People and organisations
Head of state	Giovanni Leone
Head of government	Giulio Andreotti
Member parties	DC Abstention: PCI, PSI, PSDI, PRI, PLI
Status in legislature	Minority government
Opposition parties	MSI, DP, PR
History
Election(s)	1976 election
Legislature term(s)	VII Legislature (1976–1979)
Predecessor	Moro V Cabinet
Successor	Andreotti IV Cabinet

The Andreotti III Cabinet was the 33rd cabinet of the Italian Republic. It held office from 1976 to 1978.^[1]

It was the first government in the history of the Italian Republic to count among its members a woman, Tina Anselmi (as Minister of Labour).

The government obtained the confidence in the Senate on 6 August 1976, with 136 votes in favor, 17 against and 69 abstentions, and in the Chamber of Deputies on 9 August 1976, with 258 votes in favor, 44 against and 303 abstentions.

It was a single-color government composed only of members of Christian Democracy; it was known as the Government of non no-confidence (Italian: Governo della non sfiducia) or Government of national solidarity (Italian: Governo di solidarietà nazionale)^[2] because it obtained the vote of confidence in parliament thanks to the abstention of the Italian Communist Party led by Enrico Berlinguer.^[3]

The Andreotti III Cabinet fell on 31 January 1978, due to the withdrawal of support from the Communist Party, which wanted to be directly involved in the government, hypothesis however rejected by the Christian Democracy.^[4]

Composition[]

Portrait	Office	Name	Term	Party		Undersecretaries
	Prime Minister	Giulio Andreotti	30 July 1976 – 13 March 1978		Christian Democracy	Franco Evangelisti (DC) (DC) (DC) (DC)
	Minister of Foreign Affairs	Arnaldo Forlani	30 July 1976 – 13 March 1978		Christian Democracy	Franco Foschi (DC) Luciano Radi (DC)
	Minister of the Interior	Francesco Cossiga	30 July 1976 – 13 March 1978		Christian Democracy	Clelio Darida (DC) (DC) Giuseppe Zamberletti (DC) (until 15 September 1977)
	Minister of Grace and Justice	Francesco Paolo Bonifacio	30 July 1976 – 13 March 1978		Christian Democracy	(DC) (DC)
	Minister of Budget and Economic Planning	Tommaso Morlino	30 July 1976 – 13 March 1978		Christian Democracy	Vincenzo Scotti (DC)
	Minister of Finance	Filippo Maria Pandolfi	30 July 1976 – 13 March 1978		Christian Democracy	(DC) (DC) (DC)
	Minister of Treasury	Gaetano Stammati	30 July 1976 – 13 March 1978		Christian Democracy	Lucio Abis (DC) (DC) (DC)
	Minister of Defence	Vito Lattanzio	30 July 1976 – 18 September 1977		Christian Democracy	(DC) (DC) Amerigo Petrucci (DC)
		Attilio Ruffini	18 September 1977 – 13 March 1978		Christian Democracy
	Minister of Public Education	Franco Maria Malfatti	30 July 1976 – 13 March 1978		Christian Democracy	(DC) Franca Falcucci (DC) Giovanni Del Rio (DC)
	Minister of Public Works	Antonino Pietro Gullotti	30 July 1976 – 13 March 1978		Christian Democracy	(DC) (DC)
	Minister of Agriculture and Forests	Giovanni Marcora	30 July 1976 – 13 March 1978		Christian Democracy	(DC) (DC) (until 24 February 1977) (DC) (since 24 February 1977)
	Minister of Transport	Attilio Ruffini	30 July 1976 – 18 September 1977		Christian Democracy	Gianni Fontana (DC) Costante Degan (DC)
		Vito Lattanzio	18 September 1977 – 13 March 1978		Christian Democracy
	Minister of Merchant Navy		30 July 1976 – 20 January 1977		Christian Democracy
		Attilio Ruffini (ad interim)	20 January 1977 – 18 September 1977		Christian Democracy
		Vito Lattanzio (ad interim)	18 September 1977 – 13 March 1978		Christian Democracy
	Minister of Post and Telecommunications	Vittorino Colombo	30 July 1976 – 13 March 1978		Christian Democracy	(DC) (DC)
	Minister of Industry, Commerce and Craftsmanship	Carlo Donat-Cattin	30 July 1976 – 13 March 1978		Christian Democracy	(DC) Gianuario Carta (DC)
	Minister of Health	Luciano Dal Falco	30 July 1976 – 13 March 1978		Christian Democracy	Ferdinando Russo (DC) (DC) (until 24 February 1977)
	Minister of Foreign Trade	Rinaldo Ossola	30 July 1976 – 13 March 1978		Independent	(DC)
	Minister of State Holdings	Antonio Bisaglia	30 July 1976 – 13 March 1978		Christian Democracy	(DC) (DC)
	Minister of Labour and Social Security	Tina Anselmi	30 July 1976 – 13 March 1978		Christian Democracy	Nino Cristofori (DC) (DC) (DC) (DC)
	Minister of Cultural and Environmental Heritage		30 July 1976 – 13 March 1978		Christian Democracy	(DC) (DC)
	Minister of Tourism and Entertainment	Dario Antoniozzi	30 July 1976 – 13 March 1978		Christian Democracy	(DC)
	Minister for Extraordinary Interventions in the South (without portfolio)	Ciriaco De Mita	30 July 1976 – 13 March 1978		Christian Democracy

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