Ferruccio Parri
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| In office June 21, 1945 – December 8, 1945 |
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| Monarch | Victor Emmanuel III |
| Preceded by | Ivanoe Bonomi |
| Succeeded by | Alcide De Gasperi |
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| Born | January 19, 1890 Pinerolo, Italy |
| Died | December 8, 1981 (aged 91) Rome, Italy |
| Political party | Partito d'Azione |
Ferruccio Parri (January 19, 1890 – December 8, 1981) was an Italian partisan and politician who served as Prime Minister of Italy for several months in 1945.
[edit] Biography
Parri was born in Pinerolo, Piedmont.
A soldier during World War I, he became active against Benito Mussolini's Fascist regime and joined Carlo and Nello Rosselli's group Giustizia e Libertà. During World War II, Parri joined the Italian resistance movement to fight the Nazi German occupiers and Mussolini's Italian Social Republic, leading the Partito d'Azione partisan groups in northern Italy (alongside representatives of other factions, such as Sandro Pertini, Rodolfo Morandi and Lelio Basso). He was also president of the Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale.
After the end of World War II, he was appointed leader of a government supported, among the others, by the Partito d'Azione, the Christian Democracy, the Communist Party, the Socialist Party and the Liberal Party. When the latter retired its support, Parri resigned from his position.
After World War II he founded, together with Ugo La Malfa, the movement Concentrazione Democratica, which was later asborbed into the Partito Repubblicano Italiano. In 1953 he left the latter party to create the short-lived Unità Popolare.
In 1958, Parri again proposed to form a Parliamentary Antimafia Commission to investigate the Sicilian Mafia. The proposal was not taken up by the parliamentary majority and in 1961 the Christian Democrat party (DC - Democrazia Cristiana) in the Senate and Sicilian politicians like Bernardo Mattarella and Giovanni Gioia (both later accused of links with the Mafia) dismissed the proposal as useless.[1] However, in 1962 a Commission was formed and Parri became a member.
In 1963, he was appointed senator for life by President Giuseppe Sargat. He adhered to the Independent Left group, and was for long its chairman.
He died in Rome in 1981.
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- ^ (Italian) L'istituzione della prima Commissione parlamentare d'inchiesta sulla mafia in: L'art. 41-bis l. 354/75 come strumento di lotta contro la mafia, by Elisa Fontanelli
| Preceded by Ivanoe Bonomi |
Prime Minister of Italy 1945 |
Succeeded by Alcide De Gasperi |
| Preceded by Ivanoe Bonomi |
Italian Minister of the Interior 1945 |
Succeeded by Giuseppe Romita |
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