Bettino Craxi
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Benedetto "Bettino" Craxi (24 February 1934 – 19 January 2000) was an Italian politician, leader of the Italian Socialist Party from 1976 to 1993 and Prime Minister of Italy from 1983 to 1987.
He was the first member of the PSI to hold the office and the third Prime Minister from a socialist party.
He led the third-longest government in the Italian Republic and he is considered one of the most powerful and prominent politicians of the so-called First Republic.Craxi was involved in investigations conducted by Mani Pulite judges in Milan, eventually being convicted for corruption and illicit financing of the PSI.
He always rejected the charges of corruption while admitting to the illegal funding which permitted costly political activity, the PSI being less financially powerful than the two larger parties, Christian Democracy and the Communists.
Craxi's government and party were also supported by future Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, a media magnate and personal friend of Craxi.Craxi maintained strong links with many leaders of the European left, including François Mitterrand, Felipe González, Andreas Papandreou and Mário Soares and was one of the main representatives of Mediterranean or South European socialism.
Craxi's supporters especially praised his foreign policy, which was assertive and often led to confrontations with the United States, on issues such as Palestine, terrorism and Craxi's close relations with Arab socialist governments.Craxi was often nicknamed by his detractors il Cinghialone ("The Big Boar") due to his physical size.
This name was given him by his long-time ally and opponent at the same time, Christian Democratic leader Giulio Andreotti.
Early life
Craxi was born in Milan on 24 February 1934. His father Vittorio Craxi was a Sicilian lawyer and anti-fascist who was persecuted by the regime of Benito Mussolini while his mother Maria Ferrari was a housewife from Sant'Angelo Lodigiano. During World War II, the young Craxi was sent to the Catholic college Edmondo De Amicis due to his unruly character and to protect him from fascist violence in retaliation for his father's anti-fascist activities.
After the war, his father assumed the role of vice-prefect in Milan and then the prefect in Como, where he moved with his family in 1945. A few months later, Craxi returned to college, first in Como and then in Cantù, where he thought to enter the seminary. Craxi's father stood in the 1948 Italian general election for the Popular Democratic Front, a political alliance between the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) and the Italian Communist Party (PCI). He campaigned for his father and later joined the PSI at the age of 17.
Early political career
Craxi was precocious and rose to various positions of public office at an early age. Meanwhile, he attended the University of Milan's faculty and then the faculty of Political Science in Urbino, Craxi's initiation into the CUDI (Italian Democratic University Centre), the student body that supported the left-wing forces.
He became involved in public speaking, arranging conferences, debates, film screenings, and more in 1956, he became a member of the PSI Provincial Committee in Milan, as the head of the Socialist Youth Federation.
Following Hungary's Soviet invasion of 1956, Craxi with a group of loyalists committed to the Socialist Party's detachment from the party's pro-Communist platform, but the Socialist Youth Movement was turned down.
He was elected town councilor in Sant'Angelo Lodigiano in November 1956 (birthplace of his mother) from Sant'Angelo, and the PSI's Central Committee, elected in 1957, representing the autonomist current of Pietro Nenni.
In 1958, the party sent him to Sesto San Giovanni as a resident of the company; in November 1960, he was elected city councilor in Milan with more than 1,000 votes and became assessor in the junta of Gino Cassinis.
By the new Secretary Francesco De Martino in 1961, he was barred from the Central Committee of the Socialist Party. He was elected head of the Milan Provincial Secretariat of the PSI in 1963, and in 1965 Craxi became a member of the National Leadership. In comparison, he was re-elected as a member of the Milan city councilor in November 1964, while maintaining his public service as assessor for Charities and Assistance in Pietro Bucalossi's council.
Craxi, the social democrat Enrico Rizzi and Renzo Peruzzotti, joined the Unified Socialist Party in Milan in 1966, creating a political alliance between the Socialist Party and the Social Democratic Party, became the provincial secretary of the PSU in Milan.
Craxi was elected with 23,788 votes in the Constituency of Milan-Pavia in the 1968 general election. Craxi, the PSU's vice Chancellor, was appointed by Giacomo Mancini in 1970 after the PSU's split.
He was one of the original supporters of the Organic Centre-left Alliance during this period, between Aldo Moro and Amintore Fanfani, the Social Democrats of Pietro Nenni, Giuseppe Saragat's Social Democrats, and the Republicans of Ugo La Malfa.
Craxi was confirmed as National Secretary of the Socialist Party during the Genoa Congress in 1972, as part of the party's international relations. Craxi, as the representative of PSI at the Socialist International, developed links with some of Europe's leading figures, including Willy Brandt, Felipe González, François Mitterrand, Mário Soares, Michel Rocard, and Andreas Papandreou.
Craxi was a personal friend of Salvador Allende, who was one of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party, the Panhellenic Socialist Movement, and the Chilean Socialist Party.