Franco Marini, former leader of the CISL and former president of the Senate- Corriere.it, died

dead Franco Marini, former President of the Senate, Minister of Labor, Secretary General of the CISL and National Secretary of the PPI. He was 87 years old.

Marini had been hospitalized for Covid last January: his condition, initially, did not seem to be a cause for concern, although doctors had to resort to assisted respiration.

Abruzzese from San Pio delle Camere, law graduate, with a past in which trade unionism and politics have always gone hand in hand – first the CISL and the Christian Democrats, then the Popular Party, then the Margherita and finally the Democratic Party – was Often nicknamed the Wolf of Marsican, also in memory of his mandatory military service, carried out as an officer in the Alpine troops. Among his habits was precisely that of wearing, whenever possible, a hat with a black pen, and often holding an unlit pipe in his hand.

Member of the Christian Democracy since 1950, in 1991 he became Minister of Labor and Social Security of the VII Andreotti government. In 1994 he participated in the transformation of DC into an Italian People’s Party of which he became secretary three years later. He led the PPI for two years and was a protagonist in the days of the fall of the first Prodi government in October 1998, a fall that the political news attributes to the withdrawal of the communist PRC of the majority but also to a strategy of the Marini axis – D’Alema. In 2006 he assumed the presidency of the Senate, surpassing the CDL candidate, senator for life Giulio Andreotti. In 2013 he took a step away from the Quirinal: he was a Bersani candidate, but he did not get the election.

Politics as passion and organization, the world of work as a compass, warmth in human relationships. We will miss Franco Marini. He has accompanied democratic Catholics into the new century, he wrote Paolo Gentiloni your Twitter.

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