D'Alema I Cabinet
D'Alema I Cabinet | |
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54th Cabinet of Italy | |
Date formed | 21 October 1998 |
Date dissolved | 22 December 1999 | (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[]
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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 | |
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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 |
References[]
- Italian governments
- 1998 establishments in Italy
- 1999 disestablishments in Italy
- Cabinets established in 1998
- Cabinets disestablished in 1999