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Oscar Luigi Scalfaro (born
September 9,
1918) is an
Italian politician and magistrate, member of the
Christian Democracy,
President of the Italian Republic from
1992 to
1999 and
senator for life.
Biography
Scalfaro was born in
Novara,
Piedmont.
He graduated in
Law from the
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (”Catholic University of the Sacred Heart“) in
Milan on
June 2,
1942. On
October 21,
1942 he entered the magistrature. After the end of
World War II in
1945 he became a public prosecuting attorney, and to date he's the last italian attorney to have obtained a death sentence (but the accused was graced before the execution could take place). In
1946 he was elected to the
Constituent Assembly and later in
1948 he became a deputy representing the district of
Turin. He was re-elected ten times in a row until
1992.
In
May 25,
1992 he was elected president of the Italian Republic after a two week stalemate of unsuccessful attempts to reach agreement. The killing of Antimafia magistrate
Giovanni Falcone prompted his election. He ended his mandate in
1999, and automatically became a lifetime
Senator.
In recent times, Scalfaro was the chairman of the committee that advocated the abrogation, in the
referendum of June 25 and 26,
2006, of the constitutional reform that had been passed in parliament the previous year by the former centre-right majority. Along with all the centre-left (and a few centre-right personalities, too), Scalfaro considered it to be dangerous for national unity and for other reasons. The opponents of the reform won a landslide victory in the referendum.
Scalfaro is currently the eldest living Italian President and the second eldest senator in the
Italian Senate, after
Rita Levi Montalcini. He consequently took the temporary presidency of the newly-elected assembly which followed the
2006 general election, as Levi Montalcini refused the role because of her age. This made him one of the three politicians in Italian history to have presided over the three highest-ranked offices in the Italian republic: President of the Republic, President of the Senate and President of the Chamber of Deputies (the other two are
Sandro Pertini and
Enrico De Nicola).
A staunch
Catholic, and in the past a rather conservative and
anti-communist politician, Scalfaro is on very bad terms with former prime minister
Silvio Berlusconi, and supports the centre-left coalition that won the political elections of 2006, which includes two
communist parties. Despite his age, he also actively campaigned, for the "no" side, in the
June 2006 referendum on a constitutional reform proposed by the
House of Freedoms during its stay at the government.
During the
Second World War, in
1944, he lost his 20-year-old wife
Maria Inzitari. Since then, he hasn't been married. He has a daughter, Marianna.
After the parlamentary election 2008 he should presided as president de tempore after the refusion of
Rita Levi-Montalcini, but he refused too.
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