D'Alema I Cabinet

D'Alema I Cabinet
54th Cabinet of Italy
Date formed	21 October 1998 (1998-10-21)
Date dissolved	22 December 1999 (1999-12-22) (428 days)
People and organisations
Head of state	Oscar Luigi Scalfaro Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
Head of government	Massimo D'Alema
No. of ministers	26 (incl. Prime Minister)
Total no. of members	29 (incl. Prime Minister)
Member party	DS, PPI, UDR, RI, PdCI, FdV, SDI
Status in legislature	Centre-left coalition
Opposition party	FI, AN, LN, PRC, CCD
Opposition leader	Silvio Berlusconi
History
Legislature term(s)	XIII Legislature (1996 – 2001)
Predecessor	Prodi I Cabinet
Successor	D'Alema II Cabinet

The D'Alema I Cabinet was the cabinet of the government of Italy from 21 October 1998 to 22 December 1999.

Prodi I Cabinet fell in 1998 when the Communist Refoundation Party withdrew its support to Prodi. This led to the formation of a new government led by Massimo D'Alema as Prime Minister. There are those who claim that D'Alema deliberately engineered the collapse of the Prodi government to become Prime Minister himself.^{[citation needed]} As the result of a vote of no confidence in Prodi's government, D'Alema's nomination was passed by a single vote. This was the first and so far, the only occasion in the history of the Italian republic on which a vote of no confidence had ever been called; the Republic's many previous governments had been brought down by a majority "no" vote on some crucially important piece of legislation (such as the budget).

Party breakdown[]

Ministers[]

Ministers and other members[]

• Democrats of the Left (DS): Prime minister, 7 ministers and 22 undersecretaries
• Italian People’s Party (PPI): Deputy Prime minister, 5 ministers and 11 undersecretaries
• Democratic Union for the Republic (UDR): 3 ministers and 8 undersecretaries
• Independents: 3 ministers and 5 undersecretaries
• Italian Renewal (RI): 2 ministers and 5 undersecretaries
• Party of Italian Communists (PdCI): 2 ministers and 3 undersecretaries
• Federation of the Greens (FdV): 2 ministers and 3 undersecretaries
• Italian Democratic Socialists (SDI): 1 minister and 2 undersecretaries

Composition[]

Portrait	Office	Name	Term	Party		Undersecretaries
	Prime Minister	Massimo D'Alema	21 October 1998 – 22 December 1999		Democrats of the Left	Franco Bassanini (DS) Marco Minniti (DS)[a]
	Deputy Prime Minister[b]	Sergio Mattarella	21 October 1998 – 22 December 1999		Italian People's Party
	Minister of Foreign Affairs	Lamberto Dini	21 October 1998 – 22 December 1999		Italian Renewal	(UDR) (DS) Rino Serri (DS) Patrizia Toia (PPI)
	Minister of the Interior	Rosa Russo Iervolino	21 October 1998 – 22 December 1999		Italian People's Party	(Ind.) (SDI) Diego Masi (UDR) (until 10 March 1999) (DS) (PPI) Adriana Vigneri (DS)
	Minister of Grace and Justice	Oliviero Diliberto	21 October 1998 – 22 December 1999		Party of Italian Communists	Giuseppe Ayala (DS) Franco Corleone (FdV) (RI) (UDR)
	Minister of Treasury, Budget and Economic Planning	Carlo Azeglio Ciampi	21 October 1998 – 13 May 1999		Independent	Stefano Cusumano (UDR) (until 26 Apr. 1999) (RI) Dino Piero Giarda (Ind.) (DS) (until 09 July 1999) (DS) (PPI) (DS) (since 27 Sept. 1999)
		Giuliano Amato	13 May 1999 – 22 December 1999		Independent
	Minister of Finance	Vincenzo Visco	21 October 1998 – 22 December 1999		Democrats of the Left	(PPI) (DS) Gian Franco Schietroma (SDI) (since 04 Aug. 1999)
	Minister of Defence	Carlo Scognamiglio	21 October 1998 – 22 December 1999		Democratic Union for the Republic	(PPI) (DS) (PdCI) Gianni Rivera (RI)
	Minister of Public Education	Luigi Berlinguer	21 October 1998 – 22 December 1999		Democrats of the Left	(UDR) (until 04 Aug. 1999) (DS) Carla Rocchi (FdV) (PPI)
	Minister of Public Works	Enrico Luigi Micheli	21 October 1998 – 22 December 1999		Italian People's Party	(DS) (UDR) Gianni Francesco Mattioli (FdV)
	Minister of Agricultural and Forestry Policies	Paolo De Castro	21 October 1998 – 22 December 1999		Independent	(DS) (PPI)
	Minister of Transport and Navigation	Tiziano Treu	21 October 1998 – 22 December 1999		Italian Renewal	(DS) (UDR)
	Minister of Communications	Salvatore Cardinale	21 October 1998 – 22 December 1999		Democratic Union for the Republic	(DS) (PPI)
	Minister of Industry, Commerce and Craftsmanship	Pier Luigi Bersani	21 October 1998 – 22 December 1999		Democrats of the Left	(DS) (PPI)
	Minister of Labour and Social Security	Antonio Bassolino	21 October 1998 – 21 June 1999		Democrats of the Left	(PdCI) (RI) (Ind.) (DS)
		Cesare Salvi	21 June 1999 – 22 December 1999		Democrats of the Left
	Minister of Foreign Trade	Piero Fassino	21 October 1998 – 22 December 1999		Democrats of the Left	(DS)
	Minister of Health	Rosy Bindi	21 October 1998 – 22 December 1999		Italian People's Party	(DS) (RI)
	Minister of Cultural Heritage and Activities	Giovanna Melandri	21 October 1998 – 22 December 1999		Democrats of the Left	(PPI) Agazio Loiero (UDR)
	Minister of the Environment	Edo Ronchi	21 October 1998 – 22 December 1999		Federation of the Greens	(DS)
	Minister of University, Scientific Research and Technology	Ortensio Zecchino	21 October 1998 – 22 December 1999		Italian People's Party	Antonino Cuffaro (PdCI) Luciano Guerzoni (DS)
	Minister for Institutional Reforms (without portfolio)	Giuliano Amato	21 October 1998 – 13 May 1999		Independent
		Antonio Maccanico	13 May 1999 – 22 December 1999		The Democrats
	Minister for Equal Opportunities (without portfolio)	Laura Balbo	21 October 1998 – 22 December 1999		Federation of the Greens
	Minister of Regional Affairs (without portfolio)	Katia Bellillo	21 October 1998 – 22 December 1999		Party of Italian Communists
	Minister for Parliamentary Relations (without portfolio)		21 October 1998 – 22 December 1999		Democratic Union for the Republic	(DS)
	Minister of Public Function (without portfolio)		21 October 1998 – 22 December 1999		Italian Democratic Socialists	(PPI)
	Minister of Social Solidarity (without portfolio)	Livia Turco	21 October 1998 – 22 December 1999		Democrats of the Left
	Minister of Community Policies (without portfolio)	Enrico Letta	21 October 1998 – 22 December 1999		Italian People's Party

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