Antonio Maccanico
Minister for Institutional Reforms
In office
21 June 1999 – 11 June 2001
Prime MinisterMassimo D'Alema
Giuliano Amato
Preceded byGiuliano Amato
Succeeded byUmberto Bossi
Minister of Post and Communications
In office
17 May 1996 – 21 October 1998
Prime MinisterRomano Prodi
Preceded byGiovanni Motzo
Succeeded bySalvatore Cardinale
Minister of Regional Affairs
In office
13 April 1988 – 13 April 1991
Prime MinisterCiriaco De Mita
Giulio Andreotti
Preceded byAristide Gunnella
Succeeded byFrancesco D'Onofrio
Member of the Senate
In office
23 April 1992 – 14 April 1994
In office
28 April 2006 – 28 April 2008
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
9 May 1996 – 27 April 2006
Personal details
Born(1924-08-04)4 August 1924
Avellino, Kingdom of Italy
Died23 April 2013(2013-04-23) (aged 88)
Rome, Italy
Political party
List
Alma materPisa University

Antonio Maccanico (4 August 1924 – 23 April 2013) was an Italian constitutional specialist and social liberal politician, who served in various capacities in the parliament and federal administrations of Italy.

Early life and education

Maccanico was born on 4 August 1924 in Avellino.[1] He graduated in law at the University of Pisa in 1946.[2]

Career

Maccanico began his career at the house of deputies as a referendary in June 1947.[2] He worked in different commissions in the house. He also served as the general secretary in the office of the Italian President Sandro Pertini for nine years.[3][4] He was the president of Italian investment bank, Mediobanca, from 1987 to 1988 which was privatised during his term.[4][5] He succeeded Enrico Cuccia in the aforementioned post.[6]

Maccanico was appointed minister of regional affairs and institutional problems on 13 April 1988 and was in office until 13 April 1991.[2] However, no significant institutional reforms were developed during his tenure.[7] He was elected senator on 6 April 1992 for the Italian Republican Party and served in the post until 1994.[6] He was the undersecretary of state of the presidency of the cabinet in the Ciampi Government from 29 April 1993 to 9 May 1994.[2]

Following the resignation of Prime Minister Lamberto Dini in January 1996, Maccanico was tasked with forming a government on 1 February 1996.[8][9] Maccanico strongly argued that all parties should agree on the required reforms before the formation of the government.[10] However, he was unable to form a majority, renouncing the mandate on 14 February, and thus, Italian President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro dissolved parliament on 16 February.[8] Maccanico was elected deputy on 21 April 1996, being part of Romano Prodi's list, from the constituency of Campania 2.[2]

On 18 May 1996, Maccanico was appointed minister of posts and communications to the cabinet led by Prime Minister Romano Prodi.[11][12] In the cabinet, he was part of the Democratic Union to which he had established early in 1996.[13][14] He was the father of law no. 249 dated 31 July 1997 that was the basis of Italy's communications authority.[15] The law is also called the Maccanico law.[16] His tenure lasted until 1998.[4] In June 2000 he was named minister of institutional reforms to the first D'Alema government, replacing Giuliano Amato in the post, and Maccanico kept the charge even in the successive governments until 2001.[6] In 2000 Maccanico was also elected to the chamber of deputies.[6] In 2006, he was elected for the fourth time to the parliament with The Daisy in Campania.[6]

Death and legacy

Maccanico died in a clinic in Rome on 23 April 2013 at the age of 88.[1][6]

In 2014 the diaries of Maccanico edited by the historian Paolo Soddu were published under the title Con Pertini al Quirinale. Diari 1978–1985.[17]

References

  1. 1 2 "Morto a 88 anni l'ex ministro Antonio Maccanico". TGCOM 24. 23 April 2013.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Biography". MediaMente. Archived from the original on 22 September 2004.
  3. ↑ Celestine Bohlen (2 February 1996). "Italy Turns to Top Bureaucrat to Try to Remake the Country". The New York Times. p. 2.
  4. 1 2 3 "Italian politician and banker Antonio Maccanico dead at 88". Gazzetta del Sud. Rome. 23 April 2013.
  5. ↑ "Maccanico may become Mediobanca chairman". Il Sole 24 Ore. 19 October 2002.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Morto Antonio Maccanico: fu ministro e presidente di Mediobanca". Corriere del Mezzogiorno. 23 April 2013.
  7. ↑ Andrew Gumbel (2 February 1996). "Backroom fixer given task of reforming Italy". The Independent. Rome. Archived from the original on 7 May 2022.
  8. 1 2 Claudia Radaelli (2002). "The Italian State and the Euro: Institutions, Discourse, and Policy Regimes". In Kenneth H.F. Dyson (ed.). European states and the Euro: Europeanization, variation, and convergence. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 217. ISBN 978-0-19-925026-4.
  9. ↑ Carol Diane St Louis (2011). Negotiating Change: Approaches to and the Distributional Implications of Social Welfare and Economic Reform (PhD thesis). Stanford University. p. 150. STANFORD:RW793BX2256.
  10. ↑ Richard L. Wentworth (20 February 1996). "Its Politics in Neutral, Italy Gears for Vote". The Christian Science Monitor. Rome.
  11. ↑ Patrick McCarthy (1997). The Crisis of the Italian State: From the Origins of the Cold War to the Fall of Berlusconi and Beyond. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 228. ISBN 978-0-312-16359-4.
  12. ↑ Richard L. Wentworth (20 May 1996). "One Nation Indivisible Under Prodi? Italy's New Chief Tries to Avoid Split". The Christian Monitor.
  13. ↑ Piero Ignazzi (1998). "Italy". European Journal of Political Research. 34 (3–4): 447–451. doi:10.1111/1475-6765.00054-i5.
  14. ↑ Alan Friedman (27 February 1996). "Berlusconi Looks Like the Loser in Dini's Jump into Politics". The New York Times. Paris.
  15. ↑ Cinzia Padovani (2009). "Pluralism of Information in the Television Sector in Italy: History and Contemporary Conditions". In Andrea Czepek; Melanie Hellwig; Eva Nowak (eds.). Press freedom and pluralism in Europe. Bristol; Chicago: Intellect Books. p. 296. ISBN 978-1-84150-243-4.
  16. ↑ Adriano Giuliano (2012). 1960-2010: Game Over for Italy's Most Criminal Governments. Bloomington, IN: Author House. p. 49. ISBN 978-1-4772-1822-8.
  17. ↑ Fabio Bulfone (May 2016). "Book review". Modern Italy. 21 (2): 220–222. doi:10.1017/mit.2016.15. S2CID 148185445.
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