Rino Formica

Italian politician (born 1927)

Rino Formica

Minister of Finance
In office
23 July 1989 – 28 June 1992
Prime Minister| Giulio Andreotti
Preceded by| Emilio Colombo
Succeeded by| Giovanni Goria
In office
28 June 1981 – 1 December 1982
Prime Minister| Giovanni Spadolini
Preceded by| Franco Reviglio
Succeeded by| Francesco Forte

Other ministerial offices

Minister of Labour and Social Security
In office
29 July 1987 – 23 July 1989
Prime Minister| Giovanni Goria
Ciriaco De Mita
Preceded by| Ermanno Gorrieri
Succeeded by| Carlo Donat-Cattin
Minister of Transport
In office
4 April 1980 – 28 June 1981
Prime Minister| Francesco Cossiga
Arnaldo Forlani
Preceded by| Luigi Preti
Succeeded by| Vincenzo Balzamo

Parliamentary offices

Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
12 July 1983 – 14 April 1994
Constituency| Bari
Member of the Senate of the Republic
In office
20 June 1979 – 11 July 1983
Constituency| Lombardy
In office
5 June 1968 – 24 May 1972
Constituency| Apulia

Personal details
Born|  (1927-03-01) 1 March 1927 (age 98)
Bari, Italy
Political party| Italian Socialist Party
Occupation| Chartered accountant, politician

Salvatore Formica (born 1 March 1927), best known as Rino Formica, is a former Italian politician.

## Biography

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Formica was born in Bari. He became a member of national importance of the Italian Socialist Party (Italian: Partito Socialista Italiano, or simply PSI) during the leadership of Bettino Craxi. He was several times Minister of the Italian Republic starting from 1980. He was Minister of Budget in the Spadolini II Cabinet, whose fall was caused by a quarrel between Formica and the other economy minister Beniamino Andreatta.

Formica was strongly critical of the PSI's transformation from a popular, social-based party into one involved in numerous corruption and official malfeasance scandals under Craxi. He declared "the convent is poor, but the monks are rich" (in reference to PSI's financial problems, where its members were instead increasingly well endowed),[1] and defined PSI's national assembly as "a court of dwarves and ballerinas.[2] Formica was one of the numerous PSI members involved in the Mani Pulite scandal of the early 1990s, although he was acquitted in the two trials raised against him.[3] After Craxi's resignation as PSI national secretary in 1993, he supported Claudio Martelli as his successor. In 1994 he was not re-elected to the Italian Parliament for the first time since the 1970s.

In 2003, he founded a party called Socialismo è Libertà and later adhered to the new Italian Socialist Party, a small-sized formation of socialists who did not join the centre-left Democratic Party or the centre-right New PSI.

## Electoral history

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Election  | House  | Constituency  | Party  | Votes  | Result

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1968 | Senate of the Republic | Apulia – Bari |  | PSI | 25,936  | Y Elected
1972 | Senate of the Republic | Apulia – Bari |  | PSI | 20,370  | N Not elected
1976 | Chamber of Deputies | Bari–Foggia |  | PSI | 25,138  | N Not elected
1979 | Senate of the Republic | Lombardy – Milan VI |  | PSI | 51,345  | Y Elected
1983 | Chamber of Deputies | Bari–Foggia |  | PSI | 74,895  | Y Elected
1987 | Chamber of Deputies | Bari–Foggia |  | PSI | 75,251  | Y Elected
1992 | Chamber of Deputies | Bari–Foggia |  | PSI | 53,812  | Y Elected

## References

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1. ^ Veltri, Elio (1993). Da Craxi a Craxi. Laterza. p. 208.
2. ^ Stimolo, Sergio; Gianna Fregonara (1994). Onorevole parli chiaro. Rizzoli. p. 166\. ISBN 88-17-84307-5.
3. ^ Perna, Giancarlo. "Formica assolto dopo 17 anni". Il Giornale website. Il Giornale. Retrieved 14 October 2011.

## External links

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* Media related to Rino Formica at Wikimedia Commons

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Cossiga II Cabinet (1980)

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Forlani Cabinet (1980–81)

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Spadolini I Cabinet (1981–82)

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De Mita Cabinet (1988–89)

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